He invites his new friends to come with, and since there's not much more excitement to be had, other than getting fit-to-puke drunk on too much cheap tequila, they take him up on his offer. The two couples meet cute with a German tourist, Mathias (Joe Anderson), whose own girlfriend, an archaeologist, has gone to her latest dig with Mathias's brother. The whole nightmare starts pretty simply, as nightmares often do in these things. Jonathan Tucker (HOSTAGE, Showtime's MASTERS OF HORROR), Jena Malone (BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA), Shawn Ashmore (the X-MEN series) and Laura Ramsey (LORDS OF DOGTOWN) star as two best friends and their respective boyfriends on vacation in Mexico, for a period of beaches, booze and 'knockin' da boots' before Tucker's character, Jeff, takes the educational equivalent of the Bataan Death March: attending med school. And it's so much the better - and more terrifying - for that. Eli Roth, I'm sorry to inform you that you got served.īecause just when you think that THE RUINS is really nothing more than just another yawn-inducing slasher movie, it takes this turn into THE OUTER LIMITS that you don't ever expect it to.

The fact that Four Beautiful Gen-X'ers are involved is about where the similarities end. Except instead of being set out in the middle of CHAINSAW territory, now it's an ancient sprawl of Mayan ruins. JOY RIDE.Īnd of course, the film to which THE RUINS will probably get the most comparisons, CABIN FEVER. And from the past couple of decades, HOSTEL. You've seen what this genre can produce before, and you're pretty sure you've seen the best and the worst of it.

Reviewed by cchase 8 /10 Oh, Goody! Let's Watch More Pretty Twenty-Somethings Die.

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