The Ruins (2008) Retro Movie Review | #31DaysOfHalloween

and here i thought the happening was the only film 
of its kind hey what’s up guys it’s me anthony  
here to give you guys another movie review and 
this time it is for the ruins we are continuing  
the 31 days of horror with the ruins and i gotta 
say guys i wish i saw this sooner but i’m happy  
that it took me so long to watch this because i’m 
in shock i think this is my new favorite movie of  
all time a luxurious mexican holiday takes a turn 
for the worst when a group of friends and a fellow  
tourists embark on a remote archaeological 
dig in the jungle where something evil lives  
among the ruins now it took me a while to find 
a synopsis online that didn’t ruin the entire  
movie i was like kind of shocked that they just 
blatantly ruined it now don’t go looking for it i  
know i probably just made you curious but don’t 
go looking for it if you have never seen this  
movie before because the surprise that they show 
in this film i say i mean it’s worth a mission  
and one of the other films on this 31 days of 
horror movies that i’m watching called eden lake  
that movie had a slow burn and a lot of other 
reviewers said it built it helped built the  
tension and everything i don’t really feel it 
with that film but in this film they totally know  
how

to build attention from the beginning to the
end i mean this film just keeps on ramping it up
it starts off pretty simple a whole bunch of uh
privileged tourists are just in mexico you know
playing having a good time and they decide to
go to an ancient mayan ruin that is off the map
um let me see if you’ve heard this before but
god blessed them because if they didn’t do
something really really stupid we wouldn’t
have got this because what we get here
i i don’t want to spoil it i keep on saying it’s
so amazing because i think it was and i think for
the time of this film i mean most of these movies
that i’m watching are in the early 2000s i think
all of them are early 2000s and i think for the
cgi and the you know the technical visual effects
that they do do in this film they do a really good
job and this is one of the few films in the early
2000s that still use a lot of practical effects
because the ruin that they’re on i don’t know if
they built it i don’t know if it’s a real ruin
in mexico i don’t know what they did but it’s
probably one of the coolest sets that i’ve seen
and they do this thing in the film where all the
characters start going crazy over a long period of
time they start hearing things and thinking things
and seeing things and i like when movies do
that especially when they do it effectively
like this film because it just totally creates
a whole bunch of different situations that our
characters will get into and it had me screaming
at the television screen like no don’t do that no
it’s not actually that and that’s the thing
i love about movies is when it can actually
uh bring an emotion out of you where you’re
screaming at the television screen knowing that
you know they can’t hear you but you’re hoping
that they get overall guys i thought the ruins was
a really good time i’m definitely gonna add
that to my horror collection i’m gonna watch it
every halloween now from now on my list is
getting very long i don’t know if i’m gonna have
enough room but we’ll see but guys let me know if
you’ve seen the ruins in the comments down below
did you like it did you hate it do you think this
one is very similar to the happening and those
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