Review - The Ruins (warning spoilers)

So tonight we watched The Ruins, a recent US horror/thriller from Dreamworks. The basic premise is 2 American couples holidaying in Mexico go off to check out some ancient Mayan ruins where something goes a bit wrong and nastiness ensues.

The acting from the fairly unknown cast is pretty decent, story ticks along nicely and there is some excellent unpleasantness to keep the sickos happy. So below is the real meat of the gore you can enjoy if you watch this movie (highlight to read):

• Arrive at ruins, Mayans show up, bit of shouting then arrow to Greek lads chest and BANG they shoot him in the face! Welcome to The Ruins fuckers.
• German chap falls down shaft into ruins (crunch), breaks back- two dozy girls go down after him, debate best way they can lift him onto make shift stretcher without moving his spine, they pick up and (twist, crunch) they fuck him up!
• Group decide they need to remove unfortunate German chaps legs to stop his wounds getting infected, cue scene of them smashing his bones with a rock then hacking through the flesh with a hunting knife.
• Blonde girl gets infected with plant nastiness (it's all crawling under her skin - nice), nice scene of her being cut open to have plant removed. She loses it a bit, buggers off with the knife on her own and hacks herself open pretty well to remove the plant. Then she stabs her boyfriend neatly in the heart when he tries to stop her. Good shot old girl!

I think part of the success of his film, aside from the nastiness, is it is fairly brief and to the point. If you have an hour and a half free then I would certainly recommend The Ruins.