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Ruins, The (2008)

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Release Date: April 4, 2008
On DVD: July 8, 2008
Genre: Horror
Running Time: 91 minutes
MPAA Rating: Rated R for strong violence and gruesome images, language, some sexuality and nudity.
Director: Carter Smith
Writer: Scott Smith
Cast: Jonathan Tucker, Laura Ramsey, Jena Malone, Shawn Ashmore

Based on the Scott Smith novel, "The Ruins" centers on a group of friends whose leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the worse when they accompany a fellow tourist on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle, where something evil lives among the ruins. Read more

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Grade: B- In The Ruins, five attractive twenty-somethings find themselves off the beaten path in Mexico on top of a hidden Mayan temple. Surrounded by locals who will kill them if they leave and haunted by deadly shrubs that inhabit the temple, the young people find themselves dying one by one with little chance for salvation.

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why did i waste my money

By ambernicole0930, April 18, 2008

this movie was a waste of $20. killer plants give me a break. has hollywood run out of things to make movie about.

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