Carter Smith directs Jena Malone, Shawn Ashmore and Laura Ramsey in this horror where six young tourists become trapped at a Mayan Temple where death is inevitable.

On paper, there’s much here to like. A decent hook for a horror. Potential for set pieces. Full fat body horror. Nudity. Jena Malone playing against type. The Ruins just doesn’t congeal. There’s no sense of narrative urgency. The dumb kids just accept their fate. Instead of hoping they’ll survive increasingly grim odds you are left waiting for a bunch of annoying characters to just… die. At least they die nasty.

5

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