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The Ruins
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.
2008 · Directed by Carter Smith · 91 min · Horror · Screenplay in the scene database · 17 frames
Tagline
Terror has evolved.
Plot
Two young American couples — Jeff, Amy, Eric, and Stacy go on vacation to Mexico. They meet Mathias, a German tourist, who is looking for his brother Heinrich. His last known location is an archaeological dig at a remote Mayan ruin in the jungle. They are also joined by Dimitri, Mathias' friend. The group reaches the ruins of a Mayan temple, and are confronted by Mayan villagers armed with knives, bows, arrows, and a gun. When Amy accidentally steps in some vines, the villagers become forceful and even more agitated, shooting and killing Dimitri. The rest of the group flees up the steps of the ruins.
At the top, they find an abandoned camp and a shaft in the center. They hear a phone ringing from somewhere inside the ruins. The group lowers Mathias down the shaft with a rope, but it breaks, dropping Mathias and paralyzing him. Amy and Jeff descend the temple steps to reason with the Mayans, but to no success. In anger, Amy throws a clump of vines at a young boy, whom the Mayans promptly kill. They realize the Mayans are afraid of the vines and will not let them leave as they have all touched them. Later, Stacy and Amy descend the shaft to rescue Mathias with a body board.
The next morning, Stacy sees a tendril of vine has crept into a wound on her leg. The vines have also wrapped themselves around Mathias' lower legs and eaten them down to the bone. Eric and Jeff are barely able to remove the vines from Stacy, but cannot get them off of Mathias. The phone rings again from deep in the shaft, so Stacy and Amy descend again. In a small, vine-covered room, the two find the body of the young archaeologist, Heinrich's friend, and a broken phone. They then realize that the ringing sound was made by the flowers of the vine. As Amy touches one flower, the vines attack and the two barely escape.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Scott B. Smith
- Cinematography: Darius Khondji
- Edited by: Jeff Betancourt
- Music: Graeme Revell
- Production design: Grant Major
- Produced by: Chris Bender, Stuart Cornfeld
Cast
- Jonathan Tucker as Jeff McIntire
- Jena Malone as Amy
- Shawn Ashmore as Eric
- Laura Ramsey as Stacy
- Joe Anderson as Mathias
- Sergio Calderón as Lead Mayan
- Jesse Ramirez as Mayan Bowman
- Balder Moreno as Mayan Horseman
- Dimitri Baveas as Dimitri
- Patricio Almeida Rodriguez as Taxi Driver
Production
- Country: Germany, United States of America
- Language: German, Greek, English, Spanish
- Studios: Spyglass Entertainment, Internationale Filmproduktion Prometheus, Red Hour, DreamWorks Pictures
- Budget: $8,000,000
- Box office: $22,818,256
- Themes: mexico, maya civilization, tourist, carnivorous plant, cancún, mexico, travel, creature, survival horror, ruins, archaeological expedition
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