Eclipse Reviews "The Ruins"

Eclipse Magazine visits The Ruins:

Unlike a lot of horror films, The Ruins unfolds slowly. Because we are given the time to relate to the group, we become more involved in the action when things begin to go south. Also unlike most horror films, the majority of the action takes place in bright sunlight. There are scenes in the pyramid, but they aren’t a huge proportion of the film.

When it does come, the blood and gore are definitely not for the squeamish, but The Ruins is not a splatter flick and the gore is integral to the plot, not a bid for a cheap scare. Indeed, in one particular sequence near the climax of the film, the gore causes an audience reaction that is equally parts of revulsion and sympathy.

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