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[[File:Ruins 2008film.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Still from ''The Ruins (2008 film)''...]]

==Summary==


A group of friends see their leisurely Mexican holiday take a turn for the worse when they, along with a fellow tourist, embark on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle, where something evil lives among the ruins.

==Details==

* Release Date: 2008
* Country/Language: US, English
* Genres/Technical: Horror, Science Fiction
* Runtime: 1 hr 30 min
* Starring: Shawn Ashmore, Jena Malone, Jonathan Tucker, Laura Ramsey, Joe Anderson
* Director: Carter Smith
* Writer: Scott Smith
* Producer/Production Co: DreamWorks SKG, Spyglass Entertainment
* View Trailer: ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh_m7bEnV4w link])

==Ratings==
===[http://www.mpaa.org/film-ratings/ MPAA Ratings]===

* Rated: R (Violence, Profanity, Nudity, Adult Content)

===Tentacle Ratings===
A rough [[Tentacle Ratings|measure]] of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:
* S____ (One Tentacle: Debateably Lovecraftian; has almost no direct connection to Lovecraft's work)

This film is not especially "Lovecraftian", though the indifferently deadly monster lurking in an ancient temple leading up to a less than happy ending could fit right at home in a Lovecraftian universe.

''Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.''

===Reviews===

Review Links:
* HorrorFreakNews, ([http://horrorfreaknews.com/ruins-2008-review link]) - "The Ruins is, from beginning to end, creepy and disturbing horror...."

==Synopsis==

{{spoiler|
A group of young adults look for fun during a sunny holiday in Mexico, but they get much more than that after visiting an archaeological dig in the jungle, where carnivorous vines try to ensnare the friends in their tendrils, forcing the group to fight for survival.
}}

==Notes==

===Comments, Trivia, Dedication===


===Associated Mythos Elements===
* [[Triffid]]s

===Keeper Notes===

* The setup here - an archaeological expedition into an abandoned temple in the jungle, guarded by hostile natives, and hiding an ancient and evil monster - would be quite easy to adjust into at least a one-shot Call of cthulhu or Delta Green scenario for a small group of doomed investigators.
* With a little tinkering, [[Tcho-Tcho]]s and/or [[Triffid]]s (or perhaps a [[Shoggoth]]) could easily be substituted for the well-meaning natives and the vine-monster.

===External links, See Also===
*


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 * race:  [[Tcho-Tcho]]s
-* race:  see also:  [[Triffid]]s, [[Hell-Plant]]s, [[Breath-Death]], [[Body Snatchers]] (other killer plants)
+* race:  see also:  [[Triffid]]s, [[Kudzu]], [[Breath-Death]], [[Body Snatchers]] (other killer plants)

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-* Race:  [[Triffid]]s
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-* Race:  [[Tcho-Tcho]]s
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 * Brian Orndorf at the Sci-Fi Movie Page (3/4 Stars) ([http://www.scifimoviepage.com/dvd/ruins-dvd.html link]) - "...''The Ruins'' is governed by one rule: razor-sharp simplicity. There's no undercurrent of absurd social commentary, no extraneous subplots vying for screen time; ''The Ruins'' is a straightforward exercise in endurance and disturbing imagery."
 * Richard Scheib at The Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review (3/5 Stars) ([http://moria.co.nz/horror/ruins-2008.htm link])  - "I wouldn’t place ''The Ruins'' on my Best of the Year list but it is modest and above average."
-* Dennis Schwartz at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (B) ([http://homepages.sover.net/~ozus/ruins.htm link]) - "Though it's hard to take such hokum seriously, it's also hard to ignore its shocking unthinkable intense scenes in this well-crafted film that gets a lot of mileage out of its scare story as it plays it straight without camp or wink and nod jokes."
+* Dennis Schwartz at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (B) ([https://dennisschwartzreviews.com/ruins/ link]) - "Though it's hard to take such hokum seriously, it's also hard to ignore its shocking unthinkable intense scenes in this well-crafted film that gets a lot of mileage out of its scare story as it plays it straight without camp or wink and nod jokes."
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 Review Links:
 * HorrorFreakNews, ([http://horrorfreaknews.com/ruins-2008-review link]) - "''The Ruins'' is, from beginning to end, creepy and disturbing horror...."
 * Richard Scheib at The Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review (3/5 Stars) ([http://moria.co.nz/horror/ruins-2008.htm link])  - "I wouldn’t place ''The Ruins'' on my Best of the Year list but it is modest and above average."
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 ===Keeper Notes===
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-* The setup here - an archaeological expedition into an abandoned temple in the jungle, guarded by hostile natives, and hiding an ancient and evil monster - would be quite easy to adjust into at least a one-shot Call of cthulhu or Delta Green scenario for a small group of doomed investigators.
+* The setup here - an archaeological expedition into an abandoned temple in the jungle, guarded by hostile natives, and hiding an ancient and evil monster - would be quite easy to adjust into at least a one-shot Call of cthulhu or Delta Green scenario for a small group of doomed investigators.  With a little tinkering, [[Tcho-Tcho]]s and/or [[Triffid]]s (or perhaps a [[Shoggoth]]) could easily be substituted for the well-meaning natives and the vine-monster, with the investigators perhaps representing a follow-up expedition from Miskatonic University, to find out what happened to a previous expedition....
-===External links, See Also===
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