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The Ruins 2008 [FullVersion]
Directed by Carter Smith
Produced by Ben Stiller (executive)
Chris Bender
Written by Novel and screenplay:
Scott Smith
Starring Jonathan Tucker
Jena Malone
Shawn Ashmore
Laura Ramsey
Joe Anderson
Cinematography Darius Khondji
Editing by Jeff Betancourt
Studio Spyglass Entertainment
Distributed by DreamWorks Pictures
Release date(s) April 4, 2008
Running time 90 minutes (Theatrical Version)
94 minutes (Unrated Director's Cut)
Country Australia
United States
Language English
Spanish
Mayan
Budget $8 million
Gross revenue $22,375,067
Plot
In a dark, dungeon-like room, a young woman tries to call for help on her cellphone. Unable to receive a signal, she is dragged away by an unseen force.
Two young American couples (Jeff and Amy, and Eric and Stacy) are vacationing in Mexico. At the pool of their hotel they make friends with a German tourist, Mathias. They decide to help Mathias look for his brother Heinrich. Heinrich met a female archaeologist and followed her to an archaeological dig at a remote Mayan ruin in the jungle where she was working. The next morning Jeff, Amy, Eric, Stacy, Mathias and Demetri (a Greek tourist who they also met at their hotel) take a bus to a remote village on their way to the Mayan ruin.
The location of the ruin is shown only on a crude map that Heinrich drew before departing. After the long bus ride the group arrives at the remote village and takes a worn-down taxi to the trail destination as marked on the map. However, before they leave in the taxi, the driver attempts to persuade them away from this particular area, which they oblige and Demetri pays off with the taxi driver. Soon they arrive at the trail head, where they see a jeep (owned by Heinrich), they then hike the rest of the way to the ruins site.
Shortly after they arrive, enraged Mayan villagers appear armed with guns and bows and arrows. When Amy inadvertently steps into the vines covering the ruin, the Mayans aim their weapons at them. When Demetri tries to calm the situation down, showing the Mayans Amy was merely taking photos of them he is hit with an arrow just below his heart and then shot in the head. The Mayans then force the others to climb up to the temple roof.
There the five find an abandoned camp with two tents (a orange and blue tent) and a mineshaft in the center. Eric and Mathias are the only two with cellphones, Eric's has no signal and the Mayans had previously stole Mathias'. At the bottom of the mine shaft, they can hear a cellphone ringing. Mathias is then lowered into the shaft but the rope breaks as he is 30 feet from the bottom; Mathias falls into the darkness of the shaft and hits the bottom with a thud. Amy then descends the temple steps to try to reason with the Mayans. When she angrily throws a clump of vine at them and hits a young Mayan boy, the others promptly kill him. Later Stacy and Amy descend into the shaft to help Mathias and find the cellphone. However, the phone becomes the least of their worries as Mathias has broken his back. Meanwhile Jeff and Eric rig up a backboard and the paralyzed Mathias is lifted out of the mineshaft by Amy and Stacy.
The next morning, Stacy finds that a tendril of the vine has crept into a wound on her leg she sustained when she was dropped into the mineshaft. And even worse, the vines have wrapped themselves around Mathias's lower legs and have eaten into them, down to the bone. The cellphone is then heard again, and Stacy and Amy are lowered down the shaft to find it. In a small, vine-covered room they find the body of the young woman and her phone (from the first scene of the film), which is broken. The flowers are vibrating and screeching, reproducing the ring of the cell phone. The vines attack them but they manage to escape. Stacy is convinced the vines are alive, and that they are growing inside her. The group realizes that the vines are predatory and that the Mayans are actually trying to keep them quarantined and have salted the earth all around the hill. Jeff insists that "Americans on vacation don't just disappear" and that help is on the way.
With Mathias' condition deteriorating, Jeff amputates both of his legs. Stacy becomes jealous when she sees Eric comforting Amy, saying that she overheard them having sex. When Jeff comes to try to defuse the situation, Stacy calls Amy's fidelity into question. While the four of them argue, the vines suffocate Mathias. It is at this point the group realizes the vines and their flowers are able to replicate their sounds.
Later, Stacy finds that the vines are now growing inside her, as vines are seen moving across her back, leg and even her forehead. Jeff is able to cut out two but stops after realizing the futility of his efforts. Stacy claims that she can feel more inside of her but the others reluctantly deny her pleas to remove them, instead saying that she will be fine in an effort to comfort her. While the others sleep, Stacy sneaks out of the tent and begins to cut the vines out herself. When Eric tries to stop her she swipes at him and stabs him through his chest. As the vines move in to take Eric's body, Stacy's cries to be put out of her misery. Jeff removes the knife from Eric's body and kills Stacy.
Realizing that they will both eventually die, Jeff makes a plan for Amy to escape. He carries her down to the bottom of the temple and lays her on the ground making it appear as if she has died. While distracting the Mayans to allow Amy to escape, Jeff is shot. As the vines slowly reach out to him, the Mayan leader shoots him in mercy. Meanwhile, Amy flees the rest of the Mayans, and safely makes it to the jeep and escapes. The screen goes black leading to the final scene where Demetri's Greek friends are seen moving towards the temple, repeating the cycle for the ruins.
