This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

That was an excellent one.

Nice effects though.

Admirable film.

The overall story-arc is your stereotypical mad-mad in the woods thriller. The plot contains various reference to the typical style we've come to love and hate in horror films. However, this movie places a nice twist on the sub-plot. Whiles the teens are up to something they should not be, the monster in the dark isn't quite what you except. We don't see a mad bunch of hillbillies, or creatures with no origin. It stays clear of a supernatural entity or a more basic mad man of the seventies era. We instead, see Mother Nature take her seeds within the story and character. A welcomed change. If you're looking for a good, suspenseful horror, then I would strongly advise looking elsewhere. The horror is scares to say the least. You would find more fright in a Scooby-Doo movie and more suspense in their long running TV shows, then in any part of this film. I found myself firmly planted back in my seat, and never coming to the edge of my chair. The films need it pass on moments where they could play to the suspense, leaves the viewer feeling cheated and unsurprised at the ending.The gore within this film is brief and used mainly to further develop the story arc. The scenes are plentiful in blood and certainly make feel the need to glance away from your screens. While the amputation scene leaves much to be desired, the film more than make up for it with one of the female leads slow battle with insanity and downward spiral into cutting herself. The sexual conduct of this film is split on me. While I enjoyed the placement of nudity and welcomed the change of not having to see every female nude, for god only knows what reason. This film places a brief nude scene, while implying sexual conduct. Having said that, there is one scene that raises more questions that answered, as a female leads, give a hand job to her surprised boyfriend, following events that make you question why? It severed no purpose to the story, nor showed nothing more than a hand below the sheets, and even came following character deaths. Overall, the writing felt bland, but at points creative. The characters where un-relatable and forgettable. If felt very much like a small budget indy film, and left the viewer wondering just what it all meant. With little playing to its intended genre, I would strongly advise watching, only as a last resort.

This movie is stupid, the characters are made to act in a way that portrays them as having no common sense, which I get that in most horror movies there's usually one or two dumb characters, but every character in this movie seems to be just plain stupid. Even the "smart" characters seems pretty dumb. Also the plot is not scary at all and to be honest it's by far one of the worst movies I wished I'd never seen. This movie made me angry at whoever produced it, mainly because it never should have been made.....seriously stupid, boring movie, wouldn't even call it a horror movie. Bottom line don't waste your time.

Not on the same level as the Silence of the Lambs or The Shining, but that's because it isn't a horror psychological thriller, it doesn't have deep meaningful conversations or writing... and it's amazing. The directing is okay, it doesn't try and pass the movie off as some artsy film and pan up from the gore often. It doesn't leave you with questions relating to the duality of man (any Kubrick fans?), but a hell of an adrenaline rush. Well worth the watch, one of the best pure horror movies i've seen. I'd rate it 9/10 for it's genre, but IMDb doesn't work that way. I love meaningful movies, and I love the art in movie making but sometimes you have to sit down for an hour and watch something that gets your heart pumping.

It's amazing that there are any teenagers left in America. Every time they seem to venture more than five miles out of their home town they seem to get picked off by Rednecks/Werewolves/Undead serial killers (take your pick).In The Ruins, we see your average bunch of plucky American teens (i.e. far too good looking to be believable) taking a well-earned holiday (sorry, vacation) to Mexico. All is going well until someone suggests venturing off the beaten paths to look at some... you guessed it, ruins.And, before you can say 'teen horror' our poor, hapless heroes are knee deep in (of all things) killer plants! Hardly the most fearsome for every to play its part in decreasing the population of an American High School, I hear you cry. But, to make matters worse, our young models are stranded on top of some ruins, surrounded by the feral fungi and they can't get off because the locals will shoot them if they do.All in all, it's a lot of silly fun - as is most mainstream horror these days. There's some nice gory scenes and plenty of things that happen even though any sane person wouldn't so that. But it's horror, right? So we're happy to suspend our disbelief.Give it a go - it's very watchable, plus, if these kids ever make it back to civilisation, they will get a guaranteed A+ for any 'What I did in my holiday' essay.