I went n seen it in theaters. It was marketed like an average horror movie but don't tell u it's plants doing the killing. I still enjoyed the film but it wasn't what I expected and I didn't know till now there was a book.
No one talks about the web series linked to this film, it’s lost media now but a really interesting short film about a guy who orders the seeds for the plant from The Ruins and tests it on himself. If anyone can find it I would love to see it again.
Never in these times. Even locals in Southern Mexico (Cancun's side of the country, let's say the map's tail) must ask organized crime for permission to elect ther city mayors, that's how things are regarding law and rules.
Take just a minute to think about this. In the book, the plants can mimic peoples voices exactly. But not only can they mimic sounds, they KNOW when and who to use specific sounds on. Like calling the German a Nazi. How do plants KNOW that the word Nazi would cut like it did. Sure they call him a mad doctor and what not, but that doesn’t really give the plants context. It’s just a creepy thought, their sentience
Yes, their sentience and intelligence made it super creepy! In the movie, they just seemed silly to me - like when you see them doing the phone ringing I just started chuckling. I realized, the book is superior because it's probably very hard to make talking/singing/mimicking flowers look scary on film.
I can't remember much of the book or movie. It's been so long. I recall at the time I saw the movie after reading the book (remember I loved it) and really didn't like the movie because of the changes from the book. I might have to revisit both to recall what my issue was.
I have had the novel for nearly two decades, and still haven't read it. And because of that, I have never watched the movie. I really should make a point to move it up the ever evolving "to read" pile...
Love this movie and the book both. The plot sounds absurd. But the book makes it work. Scott Smith is a very good writer and he made it terrifying and incredibly bleak. The movie isn't perfect but I liked it far more than I was expecting to. Really like the cast as well.
I bought the novel at an airport in 2006 and read some of it there and on the plane. I’ve always wondered if Scott Smith was a Stephen King pen name since he hardly ever works and King always loves his stuff.
Its a shame that it floped and that à lot of people dont know about this movie because its really good. Its fresh and has an original idea behond it... not like the typical block busters. A good movie, i recommand it. 🙂
I love Scott Smith's book A SIMPLE PLAN, but I didn't like RUINS the book or the film. The storyline is a bit cliched and the characters are so unlikeable.
So, when are you going to talk about Clive Barker´s adaptations: like Dread, The Midnight Meat Train and Book of Blood (the 2009 version). It´s a shame they don´t keep adapting it.
This movie is awesome. Everyone but my wife loves it in my house, and that's only because she thinks it's genuinely one of the creepiest movies she's ever seen and refuses to watch it again.
I very much appreciate this movie. It's highly underrated. I loove Jonathan Tucker in Justified! I did not recognize him.. 😆 I did recognize him from TCM. He chameleons very well.
I dont know. I cant believe this was a flop. It was or is a very successful horror movie. It works on many levels. The acting is beyond solid. The characters are never boring.
@@offspringfan1288 and I didn't watch Dark Knight or Ironman in theathers because of Spiderman 3, I hated that emo era and I figured it'd be in every movie back then.
The movie is fairly good, but the novel is much much better. It's much more realistic, more bleak, depressing and hopeless. It's also less obvious, you don't really know from where the danger is coming until much later in the novel. In movie, it's pretty obvious early on. One of the problems is that this is the type of novel that is hard to translate on screen. Screaming flesh eating plants are something that can easily look unintentionally funny and ridiculous on screen. And also, the switcheroo didn't work. I would prefer that characters had same destinies as in novel. But the movie wasn't a flop, it's was pretty good horror movie and for those who didn't read the novel it would be kind of awesome.
I read the book and the vines are so much more terrifying in the literature. That said, it's a decent adaptation, honestly the ending I liked best was when Stacy gets away but still dies and they show her gravestone with the telltale red flowered vines growing up out of her grave onto her headstone. I think it's a good movie with an original concept.
I always really liked this underrated horror film along with fantastic actress Jena Malone whom never get's enough attention. Also prefer the darker ending in unrated cut version :-)
wasn't there an ending where she was driving away and when she looks in the rear view mirror you see the vines twitching under her skin by her eye? Or am I imagining that?
This movie would have done better but it followed The Decent and people were expecting something more like that so when the monster was a plant people didn't get it or like it.
25 mil to make this movie!?! How? I dont remember a lot of It but I feel like It mostly takes place in one setting, with a minimal cast of maybe 5 or 6 people. That is bonkers to me that It had that big of a budget.
Yes finally someone pointed it out! Will set it all up from inside the hospital.. When Jonathan Tucker had Mads hanging and bleeding and his feet were on the bucket.. such an awesome scene!
i enjoyed this movie when it was out and when there was a Lenticular cover to the dvd, i got it without thinking twice. it's really underrated as a horror movie but then again, i get it why it doesn't appeal to the masses.
The unrated version is absolutely great, love it. Theatrical is the usual cut up just too much to past mediocre. But as with many, putting the cuts back makes it a whole lot better.
Love this film.. bought it in a damn bargain bin for 4 bucks back in the day and absolutely loved it. Sooo underrated, it's insane. The amputation scene was visceral. The acting is quite good throughout and it's directed very very well. Got a big crush on Laura Ramsey because of this😅
Definitely one of my favorite horror movies, especially for the time period. Not a lot of horror grabbed my attention back then. The unrated version lives up to the horror the story depicts. This stands out with The Descent and The Cave as my favorite of this era.
One of my hidden gems. The part where she’s cutting herself to get the vine out, and it goes across her face, oh man. It’s some awesome body horror and a decent horror flick overall! I can see why it flopped in theaters tho.
this was a good horror movie and wished I knew more about those plant/rose things. too much has been untold and I wish they will make a serie of it one day to uncover slowly the full truth behind all this. three main questions are: 1. who are those mayans and why are they there and not moving away from the location? 2. what are those plant/rose things 3. is this related to a science project or something? love the movie but just the ending was a little dumb I think. 8/10 I say
I enjoyed this movie. I actually cared about the characters, the acting was fantastic (especially from Jena Malone), and its tense and horror moments were well done. I still think about the plant inside the girl's leg. I only wish they emphasized the physical strains the characters had to endure (apart from the mutilation scenes), like how they had to wear the same dirty itchy clothes under the blazing sun for days and that they're starving and dehydrated. All of this would've contributed to their already declining mental state. They almost looked comfy seeing them sleep in the tent together lol.
The books really aren't that different. They both have a very surface level, simplistic plot that is ultimately secondary to the meat of the novels, which is the accelerated mental and emotional downfall of the protagonists, and that sensation of "at what point did this all go so wrong???". I enjoyed both novels but I think one reason we didn't get a third is that it might have been more of the same. The plot/setting would have shifted but if it was just another case of characters losing it then the bloom may have come off the rose, so to speak. I can't speak for every movie goer but for me going into this as a young man without having read the novel and expecting a conventional horror movie I left underwhelmed. Just thought it was meh and promptly forgot about it. Years later I read the book and then watched the film again and enjoyed it much more.
The movie went completely under my radar until I found it on Prime. Was a surprise hit for me. Really like it and opened up a whole new genre of plant horror for me which is criminally under developed. I want more plant horror. It really goes under my skin. (Pun intended)
I saw this movie on a whim and genuinely loved it. It makes me sad to hear it was a 'flop' because it was a different type of horror. It was well written, with likable characters. The vines were really terrifying too. I gotta read the book some time.
I loved it. I remember my sister and her boyfriend were with me in the living room watching, and the scene where the flowers make human sounds, they started laughing. I was horrified instead.
I was super ill the night I watched this film (along with In The Mouth Of Madness) and coincidentally it was the night decided to split from my long-term girlfriend (I guess a joint agreed split, but I was 100% on it). She went to bed and I watched flims... You'd think being ill and ending a relationship would have soured my mood or put a dampener on the movie in the long-term, but I thought it was excellent then and now - I do not understand how many people have a strong distain for it. Haven't read the novel yet but its on my radar. Oh and In The Mouth of Madness was truly one of the best. Perhaps I should get in relationships and break them off more often, I seem to find good movies.
I’ll champion this movie for sure! It came out in a weird time for horror films and has kind of been forgotten. I saw it in the theater but it bombed badly. At any rate, I enjoyed it a lot and the book is equally as good.
I genuinely don't know why this was a flop. Watched it. Loved it. Truly an original horror concept.
I went n seen it in theaters. It was marketed like an average horror movie but don't tell u it's plants doing the killing. I still enjoyed the film but it wasn't what I expected and I didn't know till now there was a book.
Agreed! I never read the book but thought the movie was a great effort with lots of payoff.
I love this movie, have watched it over and over.
I saw this in theaters too. I love Jenna Malone so I had to see it. I’m pretty sure my bf and I were the only ones on the theater. I loved this movie.
these people were grade a stupid, stupid and stupid, the whole plot is stupid as they are.
I like that the majority of the movie took place during daylight.
No one talks about the web series linked to this film, it’s lost media now but a really interesting short film about a guy who orders the seeds for the plant from The Ruins and tests it on himself. If anyone can find it I would love to see it again.
What is the name
@@benten4751 I can’t remember what it was called but I’ll have a search later to see if I can find the name.
@@critapocalypse1836 Any luck?
Jena Malone will forever be Gretchen Ross from Donnie Darko
I just rewatched this on Pluto today. This makes me never want to go off the beaten path.
Exactly. Lol. The idea sounds silly but they managed to make it very creepy.
Never in these times. Even locals in Southern Mexico (Cancun's side of the country, let's say the map's tail) must ask organized crime for permission to elect ther city mayors, that's how things are regarding law and rules.
Take just a minute to think about this. In the book, the plants can mimic peoples voices exactly. But not only can they mimic sounds, they KNOW when and who to use specific sounds on. Like calling the German a Nazi. How do plants KNOW that the word Nazi would cut like it did. Sure they call him a mad doctor and what not, but that doesn’t really give the plants context. It’s just a creepy thought, their sentience
Yes, their sentience and intelligence made it super creepy! In the movie, they just seemed silly to me - like when you see them doing the phone ringing I just started chuckling. I realized, the book is superior because it's probably very hard to make talking/singing/mimicking flowers look scary on film.
Read the book first and was happy with the adaptation. Sticking to the source material really worked for this film.
I was thinking the same thing. The book is pretty good.
I can't remember much of the book or movie. It's been so long. I recall at the time I saw the movie after reading the book (remember I loved it) and really didn't like the movie because of the changes from the book. I might have to revisit both to recall what my issue was.
no thanks, sounds stupid as freaking ball, no way.
This is one of my favorite movies, I don't know why it didn't get more traction.
I clicked so fast…the Ruins is one of my fav books and nostalgic y2k horror movies! The book is phenomenal!
It's very underrated.
I have had the novel for nearly two decades, and still haven't read it.
And because of that, I have never watched the movie.
I really should make a point to move it up the ever evolving "to read" pile...
It's à book??
Same here! I read it for the first time last year. I wish he had stuck closer to his book, especially the sleeping bag scene 😱😱😱
Literally I could not have said it better. It is exactly what I was going to say.
Love this movie and the book both. The plot sounds absurd. But the book makes it work. Scott Smith is a very good writer and he made it terrifying and incredibly bleak. The movie isn't perfect but I liked it far more than I was expecting to. Really like the cast as well.
Indeed.. the cast is very very good.
I loved the book so much and because of that I was so excited for the movie but I was disappointed
The book is phenomenal and the movie is just ok
Yo appreciate your Animorphs callout bc to this day when whenever I see Ashmore in any role at any age I am like dude that’s Jake
Same!!! So glad I’m not the only one lol
I really enjoyed both the book and the movie. Don’t understand why it flopped.
I bought the novel at an airport in 2006 and read some of it there and on the plane. I’ve always wondered if Scott Smith was a Stephen King pen name since he hardly ever works and King always loves his stuff.
I didn’t even recognize Jonathan Tucker in TCM 2003 lol must’ve been the hair and glasses
The ending where Amy escapes is still a bleak one. The camera zooms in on her eye as she's driving away, and you see a tiny vine growing there.
Its a shame that it floped and that à lot of people dont know about this movie because its really good. Its fresh and has an original idea behond it... not like the typical block busters. A good movie, i recommand it. 🙂
I love Scott Smith's book A SIMPLE PLAN, but I didn't like RUINS the book or the film. The storyline is a bit cliched and the characters are so unlikeable.
One of my fave film adaption!
The novel is also really good
I enjoyed the (horror) book back in the day
but the film adaptation ,sadly, was a let down.
Tucker was in one of my favourite shows, The Black Donnellys. So underrated and underseen.
This was one of those movies I'd never seen, never seen trailer, or heard of book. I just watched it on a whim and Holy cow was I blown away!?!
Same! It was a hidden gem for sure!
I love when that happens!
Dude I just got zombie stripers on dvd for 20 cents
Absolutely fantastic movie ... if one that I keep forgetting the name of
Truly original concept
So, when are you going to talk about Clive Barker´s adaptations: like Dread, The Midnight Meat Train and Book of Blood (the 2009 version).
It´s a shame they don´t keep adapting it.
This movie is awesome. Everyone but my wife loves it in my house, and that's only because she thinks it's genuinely one of the creepiest movies she's ever seen and refuses to watch it again.
I very much appreciate this movie. It's highly underrated. I loove Jonathan Tucker in Justified! I did not recognize him.. 😆 I did recognize him from TCM. He chameleons very well.
I dont know. I cant believe this was a flop. It was or is a very successful horror movie. It works on many levels. The acting is beyond solid. The characters are never boring.
It came out right around the time of the dark knight and iron man if I’m correct. I think a lot of films would flop 😂
@@offspringfan1288 and I didn't watch Dark Knight or Ironman in theathers because of Spiderman 3, I hated that emo era and I figured it'd be in every movie back then.
the characters are freaking morons, total morons.
well you must like non wheat bread and bedtime at 7pm because this was as dry as most throw it at the wall yanky-danky movies
@@Gheofoil-3 LMAO. Dry? What is dry?
The movie is fairly good, but the novel is much much better. It's much more realistic, more bleak, depressing and hopeless. It's also less obvious, you don't really know from where the danger is coming until much later in the novel. In movie, it's pretty obvious early on. One of the problems is that this is the type of novel that is hard to translate on screen. Screaming flesh eating plants are something that can easily look unintentionally funny and ridiculous on screen. And also, the switcheroo didn't work. I would prefer that characters had same destinies as in novel. But the movie wasn't a flop, it's was pretty good horror movie and for those who didn't read the novel it would be kind of awesome.
I thought it was decent, and definitely had potential, but overall pretty average. Worth a watch, though.
I loved this movie. First movie to make me woozy. 12 year old me loved it.
I read the book and the vines are so much more terrifying in the literature. That said, it's a decent adaptation, honestly the ending I liked best was when Stacy gets away but still dies and they show her gravestone with the telltale red flowered vines growing up out of her grave onto her headstone. I think it's a good movie with an original concept.
I always really liked this underrated horror film along with fantastic actress Jena Malone whom never get's enough attention. Also prefer the darker ending in unrated cut version :-)
wasn't there an ending where she was driving away and when she looks in the rear view mirror you see the vines twitching under her skin by her eye? Or am I imagining that?
Jonathan Tucker is fantastic in the show Kingdom
This was one my favorite 2000s horror movie. An underrated movie from an underrated decade for the genre.
This movie would have done better but it followed The Decent and people were expecting something more like that so when the monster was a plant people didn't get it or like it.
Love the book, film is fun.
I absolutely love this story! It never gets the support it deserves. Great pick!
It was okay, could have been great. But okay is better than shite. Thanks
25 mil to make this movie!?! How? I dont remember a lot of It but I feel like It mostly takes place in one setting, with a minimal cast of maybe 5 or 6 people. That is bonkers to me that It had that big of a budget.
They went to Australia for filming, I believe.
Jonathan Tucker was also in Hannibal, season 2.
Yes finally someone pointed it out! Will set it all up from inside the hospital.. When Jonathan Tucker had Mads hanging and bleeding and his feet were on the bucket.. such an awesome scene!
i enjoyed this movie when it was out and when there was a Lenticular cover to the dvd, i got it without thinking twice. it's really underrated as a horror movie but then again, i get it why it doesn't appeal to the masses.
The unrated version is absolutely great, love it. Theatrical is the usual cut up just too much to past mediocre. But as with many, putting the cuts back makes it a whole lot better.
The reverse is true. The unrated DVD just added stuff to the original cut just to sell DVD's.
Saw this in theaters it was a hidden gem for me
It's unfortunate that they never introduced these plants to Pele the fire goddess🔥🔥🔥
Love this film.. bought it in a damn bargain bin for 4 bucks back in the day and absolutely loved it. Sooo underrated, it's insane. The amputation scene was visceral. The acting is quite good throughout and it's directed very very well. Got a big crush on Laura Ramsey because of this😅
Didn't read the book, but the movie was awesome.
An Aztecian Day Of The Triffids.
If only they had an ice cream van....
Good film blonde is hot
This was an amazing movie.
Jonathan Tucker I Loved Him In The Show Kingdom.
This movie is so underrated! Incredible! Original!
Amy is much more justified in the book
Definitely one of my favorite horror movies, especially for the time period. Not a lot of horror grabbed my attention back then. The unrated version lives up to the horror the story depicts. This stands out with The Descent and The Cave as my favorite of this era.
I love this movie so much.
One of my hidden gems. The part where she’s cutting herself to get the vine out, and it goes across her face, oh man. It’s some awesome body horror and a decent horror flick overall! I can see why it flopped in theaters tho.
oh man. . A Simple Plan was my favorite film of 1998. As a kid, my friends and I would make our top 10 of the year. I haven't seen The Ruins though.
I really despised when that chic Amy was like "Jeff Jeff what're doing" you're hurting him" as if there's an alternative lol
this was a good horror movie and wished I knew more about those plant/rose things. too much has been untold and I wish they will make a serie of it one day to uncover slowly the full truth behind all this.
three main questions are:
1. who are those mayans and why are they there and not moving away from the location?
2. what are those plant/rose things
3. is this related to a science project or something?
love the movie but just the ending was a little dumb I think.
8/10 I say
I enjoyed this movie. I actually cared about the characters, the acting was fantastic (especially from Jena Malone), and its tense and horror moments were well done. I still think about the plant inside the girl's leg. I only wish they emphasized the physical strains the characters had to endure (apart from the mutilation scenes), like how they had to wear the same dirty itchy clothes under the blazing sun for days and that they're starving and dehydrated. All of this would've contributed to their already declining mental state. They almost looked comfy seeing them sleep in the tent together lol.
The books really aren't that different. They both have a very surface level, simplistic plot that is ultimately secondary to the meat of the novels, which is the accelerated mental and emotional downfall of the protagonists, and that sensation of "at what point did this all go so wrong???". I enjoyed both novels but I think one reason we didn't get a third is that it might have been more of the same. The plot/setting would have shifted but if it was just another case of characters losing it then the bloom may have come off the rose, so to speak.
I can't speak for every movie goer but for me going into this as a young man without having read the novel and expecting a conventional horror movie I left underwhelmed. Just thought it was meh and promptly forgot about it. Years later I read the book and then watched the film again and enjoyed it much more.
The movie went completely under my radar until I found it on Prime. Was a surprise hit for me. Really like it and opened up a whole new genre of plant horror for me which is criminally under developed. I want more plant horror. It really goes under my skin. (Pun intended)
I saw this movie on a whim and genuinely loved it. It makes me sad to hear it was a 'flop' because it was a different type of horror. It was well written, with likable characters. The vines were really terrifying too. I gotta read the book some time.
I loved it. I remember my sister and her boyfriend were with me in the living room watching, and the scene where the flowers make human sounds, they started laughing. I was horrified instead.
Loved it, the book is good too, but enjoy the film more. It's all the best parts of 2000s horror with none of the bad
Yeah The Ruins was a very solid horror experience, I am confused why it didnt do better
Never read the book but this was an excellent movie. Very original.
I absolutely love this movie. I own it on Blu Ray twice for some reason but I won't get rid of either.
The mention of "Zombie Strippers" brought me a lot of joy.
I tried to read the book and didn’t understand the appeal so didn’t finish. I didn’t like the characters or the plot. It might work better as a movie.
The movie had a better ending. The book has better explanations for why the plants do what they do.
I hate that this didn't get more I love camping this made me think about exploring too far
Movies don't get continued anymore unless they make double what they put into the first one it seems
Hey no bs Zombie Strippers was actually pretty fun lol
The book was crap so the movie being crap wasn’t surprising
I like this movie, but not enough to have it. That said, it was way better that The Happening that was released a few months after this one.
I’m a horror fan and love movies and this one is a banger
Not like all the others you have seen very original
Say The Ruins...........In Stuart Griffins Voice..............👻👻👻
The book is great
And "a simple plan" was even better
There was no Star it was bunch of Those guys actor's
Anyone else remember the indie film that came out the same year with a similar premise but set in a gas station, Splinter?
Someone at Joblo has been on Pluto TV!! It’s on heavy rotation right now
How was this a flop? Excellent movie
A hard watch at times. But a very underrated horror movie
A hard watch at times. But a underrated gem of a movie
I was super ill the night I watched this film (along with In The Mouth Of Madness) and coincidentally it was the night decided to split from my long-term girlfriend (I guess a joint agreed split, but I was 100% on it). She went to bed and I watched flims... You'd think being ill and ending a relationship would have soured my mood or put a dampener on the movie in the long-term, but I thought it was excellent then and now - I do not understand how many people have a strong distain for it. Haven't read the novel yet but its on my radar.
Oh and In The Mouth of Madness was truly one of the best. Perhaps I should get in relationships and break them off more often, I seem to find good movies.
Love this video. Thanks for the upload. The narrator is real good in this one. I enjoyed the Ruins.
Please do WTF happened to Monkeybone
I’ll champion this movie for sure! It came out in a weird time for horror films and has kind of been forgotten. I saw it in the theater but it bombed badly. At any rate, I enjoyed it a lot and the book is equally as good.
I loved this movie and found it interesting
loved THE BOOK (not the movie)
This movie was so tough to watch.
This is still one of my favorite horror movies
I really enjoyed movie too.
i actually liked this move
😈👍
christ man this movie is so good
Sounds horror-Vine-ning 😜
This was a GREAT movie