Starring: Jonathan Tucker, Shawn Ashmore, Joe Anderson, Jena Malone, and Laura Ramsey

Directed by: Scott B. Smith

So I finally got around to watching “The Ruins” last night, a horror film which centers a group of friends going on a trip in Cancun, to visit an archeological site of the Mayan ruins. The 4 friends Jeff, Eric, Amy and Stacy stay in Cancun for a while to party and have some fun before visiting the ruins. They run into another friend named Pablo who knows where the place is by a drawn map he has. When they finally take the trip to the Ruins site which may look like a small pyramid or a temple of some sort, they notice the ruins were covered with these green plants that has red flowers on them. Armed Mayans people were gaurding the site so in order to survive, the 4 friends were forced to live on top of the Ruins until help came along because the place has an abandoned campsite. Those long plants has flowers that makes loud noises, if you make a noise, the plants will start to move and they could be moved inside humans bodies, it could be infective and could kill people.

My thougthts on the film? According to critics and fans of the movies online, people said it was scary and gory and too disturbing to watch. As a huge fan of the horror film genre, I didn’t once find the film all that gory and never once found the film to be all that scary either. The storyline and acting was pretty good, but I think the film would be a lot scarier if the film didn’t have any gore at all.

I didn’t find any disturbance in it and didn’t jump at all once. I know how horror films work as I said many times I am obsessed with the horror genre so I know all about it. Those who think it’s scary and disturbing must be new to the horror genre, but a longtime horror fan like myself would agree it was nothing all that scary but it did have it’s creepy moments.

It was an ok film. Nothing that excellent that people were making it out to be. I’ve seen better films than this.

Score for the Ruins = ** (2 stars as in ok)

Kev