This movie was just horrible. Boring, Lame. Plot went nowhere. You don't see no monster/cool thing. Seriously so horrible.

This is no mere ruins, this is "The Little Mayan Ruins of Horror". The menace in the Frank Oz-directed musical sang like an old school-soul stylist from planet Motown, his backup singers were green. In "The Ruins", the adversary is more like Kraftwerk than The Four Tops; like a Korg with a built-in sampler. The tourists aren't portrayed as ugly Americans, they're just four young people caught in a situation that's way over their heads. A film like "The Ruins" works better if the audience has a rooting interest in the characters' survival. When Stacy(Laura Ramsey), then Amy(Jena Malone), is lowered into the cavern, "The Ruins" looks like the toughest season of "Survivor" ever. The four Americans are split into two teams, and the German is like Jeff Probst. Stacy wins the battle of the girlfriends after the round of knives. Contrary to most horror films in which a homicidal maniac tortures his victims, in "The Ruins", body parts are hacked off without the stigma of villiany. Torture is disguised as a medical procedure which satisfies genre convention with tongue placed firmly in cheek. Jeff(Jonathan Tucker), the wanna-be doctor, so impassive as he works on the German, makes you draw parallels between surgeons and serial killers. They both have no feelings.… Expand

This is the most gory movie ever! Seriously. My date almost threw up at the leg part. This is a high intense movie that really gets under your skin. It follows the book good, except for a few parts and they switched two ppl around... but other than that, it was a good follower.

Excellent gore effects. [***SPOILER***] But a cannibalistic vine? Laughable.

I don't understand all the negativity and derision this film has garnered. I found it to be a very interesting and well-done horror film. One of the better American offerings I have watched in the past 6 months.

IS really not very original, but the cast is very good, the locations is ok and the tension is great!

Aaaah! A breath of fresh air for once from the horror coal mines. People keep on saying that horror is dead, that it died back in the late 80's and has been slowly trying to pop it's head up for air ever since. The Ruins looks like the kind of snuff horror film that you would have seen back in the late 70's, only this film adds a sublte supernatural twist. It is horror that bases its self in the suffering of a group of people slowly withering away while faceing varialble threats. This film is not a slasher film, but a film of intense despair that leaves you glued to the screen. It pulls no punches, it shows you the violence as if you where watching a autopsy video, detailed and precise. Not for the faint of heart.… Expand

In spite of some tense scenes and a good performance from Jena Malone, this is a tired story, needlessly gory and lacks originality. Well produced, It begins to fall apart after the first half. It does have it's moments though.

Awful!!!! While the acting is actually pretty decent, there is no plot and the parts just come out of nowhere without any explanation. I don't know how anyone can say this movie is even half-way decent.

A very silly, laughable movie. And this was suppose to be a horror?!?

No character development to make you care about the actors, no backstory, and the "monster" is about as lame as I've ever seen. The ending sucked. The only good part was the realism of the gore, which is worth about 3 poknts.

The beauty of this film is its ability to transcend simple body-horror to sheer psychological terror. The cast does an incredible job of selling the villain, something that I, myself, was skeptical of when told of the book. As a person heavily affected and in love with the book, I had a lot riding on this film. I think it does a great job of living up to expectations and satisfying the horror lover in all of us. While I'm not entirely sold on the ending and do believe it needed another 15 minutes or so to really drive the terrifying story home, it's a true delight and worth the $10.… Expand

One of the best Horror/SciFi films I've seen in a long time. My girlfriend read the book and she agreed. Well acted, great special effects and lots of blood. If you can't watch surgeries on TLC this is not the movie for you!

I really liked this movie, but the novel was like a thousand times better. They really should've followed the novel instead, and the characters were all mixed up & stuff. But I liked the movie, had some intense sense, enough gore, and an antagonist unlike anything you've really seen before.

I enjoyed this horror. It was edgy and suspenseful. As with any horror there are gaps in the story and lots of "why didn't they .." and "if only then" - but that is not the point. We had a good nights viewing and that is what it is about.

Terrible movie. My friends and I just talked throughout the entire movie. There was no excitement, no plot twists, nothing. This movie was a disappointment.

I rarely watch horror movies. I find them to be poor quality, and reliant on cheap thrills rather than substance. I got dragged to this by some friends, and it merely confirmed my suspicions. Not so much a coherent film as much as an excuse to show a number of scenes concerning graphic amateur surgery. There wasn't a single point in the film that was scary, but plenty that were pointlessly gory.… Expand

Interesting setting and hot cast, but it lost me when the vines got grabby and the flowers started making noise -- very Little Shop of Horrors. Gory/gross and yet too silly to be great.

Note to writer: If you are going to make a movie about people being trapped on a pyramid by locals who appear out of nowhere as soon as you set foot on the damn thing, please be kind enough to explain why said locals didn't just stop said people from going there in the first place, especially considering another group of random people had gone to the evil pyramid a few days earlier.