Based on the terrifying best-seller by Scott Smith The Ruins follows a group of friends ... more
who become entangled in a brutal struggle for survival after visiting a remote archaeological dig in the Mexican jungle - where they discover something deadly livi...
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Craving an adventure to wake them from their lethargic Mexican holiday before they return ... more
home four friends set off in search of one of their own who has travelled to the interior to investigate an archaeological dig in the Mayan ruins. After a long journey into the jungle the group come across a partly camouflaged trail and a captivating hillside covered with red flowers. Lured by these the group move closer until they happen across a gun-toting Mayan horseman who orders them away. In the midst of the confrontation one of the group steps inadvertently backwards into the flowering vine. And at that moment their world changes for ever...
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The world of Liath and Alain is breaking apart as King Henry's kingdom is savaged by ... more
earthly and supernatural forces which they alone have the power to understand. The Eika warriors thirst for the King's land and power their enmity sealed by generations of blood. Bitter in-fighting within King Henry's court and the ceaseless attrition of raiders also weaken his reign. Those who remain true must stay strong as the shadow of the Cursed Ones falls and the spell holding the exiled from the planet fails. Liath must force her wild sorcery to maturity and Sanglant her husband and King Henry's heir must struggle to hold the realm together. The twin destinies of Liath and Alain may yet avert the destruction written in the stars.
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Unspeakable. Unstoppable.When a group of tight-knit college friends visit the site of an ... more
undisturbed Mayan ruin, they stumble into an ancient trap. An unspoken evil waiting to drag its victims into an endless nightmare. As fear and paranoia eat away at their sanity, their only chance at escape is to commit the unthinkable.
Production Year: 2003 - Horror - Director: Marcus Nispel - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Erica Leerhsen, Mike Vogel, Eric Balfour, Andrew Bryniarski
Advantages: Good film with excellent special effects Disadvantages: none
good and evil, but with cutting edge special effects and action scenes galore this is a great film to watch.
The blu-ray version i watched was a 2 disc set with the second disc full of extras. There was a section on the history of transformers, and interviews with executive producers Steven Spielberg and Brian Goldner, writers Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci, and director Michael Bay. There were also features on the animation used and the way they worked out where to do scenes. You also get a look at the military equipment seen and used in the film.
This additional information is something you do not want to skip over, because it gives you a much deeper understanding of how much planning and work went into the final production. If you are into cutting edge special effects and head banging action then beg, borrow, rent, or if that fails buy ...
Advantages: Rhino, Blu-ray and DVD with Rhino toy, good family watch Disadvantages: Similar to other animated films
***Introduction***
Bolt is the latest movie made by Disney and so I decided to recently purchase this movie and see what all the fuss was about. This version was only a couple of quid more than the normal DVD and I purchased mine from TheHut (which I have reviewed very recently) and this includes the Blu-ray disc with special features, the film on DVD as well which is worth over £10 and a Rhino soft toy! (the excellent and very funny hamster in the movie) So I obviously decided to buy the Blu-ray!
***Plot***
Bolt and his owner Penny are the stars of a massive TV show with Bolt being the main character. To make everything appear more realistic Bolt must not know that this is just a show and not real and so he believes everything around him is real. When Penny is captured by the evil green eyed man he escapes over night to try ...
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this console mainly to play games because we have the Xbox for that which all-in-all i find a better GAMING console! However we use it as a blu-ray player, when we brought it, it was a relitively cheap, good quality blu-ray player comparitive to the others on the market at the same time and I have to say it is brilliant as a blu-ray player, plays all DVDs we have tried in truly stunning high quality HD! The menus however are not to my liking at all. So all-in-all I'd say if you were going to buy one of these buy it as a blu-ray player with the capabilities of playing games not as a games machine with the capability of playing blu-rays! ...
In THE RUINS, a group of vacationers travel to a remote area in search of a missing man, but what they find there is far more disturbing and dangerous than they were prepared for.
Release details
DVD Region
Blu-ray
Studio(s)
PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT; TECHNICOLOR DISTRIBUTION SERVICES
Languages
Main Language
English
Technical information
Aspect Ratio
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Sound
Dolby Digital
Professional reviews
Review
A surprisingly effective little horror nightmare (Boston Globe, 07/11/2008)
The tension is brutal (Sunday Mirror, 07/11/2008)
DVD Description
Scott B. Smith adapts his own novel of tourism gone wrong with this horror film. In THE RUINS, a group of vacationers travel to a remote area in search of a missing man, but what they find there is far more disturbing and dangerous than they were prepared for.
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