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The Ruins2008

Name: The Ruins
Genre: Survival, Monster & Creature, Body Horror
Released: 2008-04-02
Rating: 5.7

“Terror has evolved.”

Directed by Carter Smith

5.7

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 5.9Rotten Tomatoes 52%Metacritic 44TMDB 5.9

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Year

2008

Runtime

91 min

Box Office

Budget

$8,000,000

Revenue (worldwide)

$22,818,256

Domestic

$17,432,844

🏆 7 nominations total

The premise

Americans Amy, Stacy, Jeff and Eric look for fun during a sunny holiday in Mexico, but they get much more than that after visiting an archaeological dig in the jungle.

Horror Vault's take

A group of American vacationers in Mexico follow a new acquaintance to a remote jungle dig site — and quickly discover that getting there was the easy part. What surrounds them is far more dangerous than anything they anticipated, and escape proves maddeningly difficult. The film leans hard into sustained dread and physical peril, delivering a horror experience that is as psychological as it is gruesome. Fans of slow-burn survival terror will find it relentlessly uncomfortable.

Content: Graphic Violence, Body Horror, Gore, Self-Harm Depictions, Psychological Distress