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The Ruins
2008
· Movie
· 91 min
D
MEANRANK
54/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4795
- IMDb #4692
- Google retired #2977
- Rotten Tomatoes #4219
- Metacritic #3958
- Letterboxd #4643
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3717
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4938
- Metacritic Critics #3993
- Metacritic Audience #3721
- Criticker #3363
- Douban #2113
- Kinopoisk #4484
- AlloCiné #4257
- Trakt #4557
Every rating
30–76
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 30, highest is Google on 76.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A group of vacationing friends impulsively visits a remote Mayan archaeological site, ignoring warnings from locals. They become trapped on the ruins by the hostile villagers, who surround the base of the structure. The real threat, however, comes from the carnivorous vines that cover the ruins, which can mimic human sounds and infect living bodies.
Details
- Director
- Carter Smith
- Writer
- Scott B. Smith
- Based on
- The Ruins by Scott Smith
- Studio
- Spyglass Entertainment, Internationale Filmproduktion Prometheus, Red Hour, DreamWorks Pictures
- Released
- 2 April 2008
- Country
- Germany, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $8.0M
- Box office
- $22.8M
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