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Sep 10, 2009 - 08:07 PM |
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The Ruins (2008) (minor spoilers within) |
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Entertaining enough horror flick. Not fucking outstanding, but then the hands-down best new horror movie I've seen is The Descent, and I saw that 2 years ago. It did create a nice enough creepy atmosphere, to the point where the vocal abilities of the plants didn't seem entirely ludicrous.
I honestly LIKE the fact that the plants only killed one person directly, plus the fact that the gore was fairly toned down compared to a lot of recent R-rated horror flicks (despite the fact that I've mentioned my gorehound tendencies, and still fly that flag high). The toned down nature meant that the amputation scene and the FUCKING SHIT WITH THE KNIFE HOLY GOD were effective. (I was alone in the room watching it and I was telling the chick "oh god oh god no don't do it you bitch" . . . and I didn't even care about the characters that much).
Which leads me to my complaint about the film: atmospheric horror flicks work best when you give a shit about at least one or two of the characters. I forgive the fault in slasher flicks, tortureporn, and arty/gaillo flicks because, hey. Part of the point in all three subgenres is inventiveness, and the third is ALL ABOUT PRESENTATION (suspira says what?) That's why I compared this to The Descent. Wonderfully atmospheric flick there, and I cared about the two main women in it, along with understanding the others. I didn't care about the people in this movie, which is obviously somewhat the intent, what with most of them not dying until the last 15 minutes, and extremely suddenly at that.
Still. Enjoyable, if nowhere near perfect.
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