The narrative itself doesn't really offer many surprises, but its special effects makes for a cringe-inducing experience.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 24, 2023

It had a good story, I hadn't seen anything like this in a little while.

| Jun 1, 2021

A solid little pandemic/creature feature with a mean streak and some fantastic practical effects and gore.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2020

A nondescript film.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 21, 2020

The fast-paced action is amoral and grotesque and the protagonists are amusingly despatched, but ultimately this B-movie homage to David Cronenberg's body horrors is too predictable.

| May 14, 2018

If you fancy a goofy little thrill that's a ray of sunshine compared to the usual glut of gloomy slasher flicks and tawdry torture pornos, The Ruins is just what the doctor ordered.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 14, 2012

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Tourists vs. flesh-eating vines; guess who wins?

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 17, 2010

Watchable killer-plant horror movie.

| Original Score: B | Aug 22, 2010

Who really needs to see some guy slice into a woman's lower back, dig around in there with his fingers, and then reel in a four-foot length of tapewormlike vine? I mean, really.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 6, 2010

So bereft of creativity that it fails even to deliver to its base--teenage boys--the ghouls and boobs they so desperately want to see.

| Aug 8, 2009

If it could happen to these kids, smart and beautiful, then it sure as shit is going to happen to me.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 23, 2009

Tenso, bem montado e dirigido com segurança e inteligência por Carter (que também extrai boas atuações de seu pequeno elenco), o filme consegue o impossível: transformar plantas assassinas em algo assustador.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 1, 2009

| Original Score: D | Oct 18, 2008

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 18, 2008

Smith's singularly bizarre novel managed what this film cannot: fear and sympathy.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 18, 2008

It had me squirming, and the sheer anarchy and amoral chaos involved was refreshing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2008

... soft-core torture porn that quite literally sets up its pretty, Hollywood protagonists for brutal sacrifice.

| Aug 1, 2008

Enjoyable, well made and genuinely creepy horror flick that transcends its ridiculous premise thanks to a strong script, some sure-handed direction and superb performances from a talented young cast.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 18, 2008