Ruins in March’08

By Eric Walkuski

Posted 19 years ago

Last Updated on July 27, 2021

The film adaptation of Scott Smith’s THE RUINS is on the fast track, and Paramount is letting us know it. Box Office Mojo has listed a March 7, 2008 release date for the horror film, to be helmed by Carter Smith (no relation to the author).

THE RUINS is a creepy yarn that sounds like TURISTAS meets the “tree rape” scene in EVIL DEAD: a group of friends vacationing in Cancun get lost in the jungle and are set upon by and killer vines. That’s right, killer vines. I haven’t read it (yet), but the book has received all kinds of raves, especially a particularly glowing one from Stephen King (who, is it possible?, has never written a murderous-foliage tale, that I know of).

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Eric Walkuski

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Favorite Movies: Jaws, Star Wars Trilogy, Aliens, Citizen Kane, The Third Man, Dawn read more of the Dead ('78), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ('74), Fargo, Miller's Crossing, Reservoir Dogs, The Manchurian Candidate ('62), Taxi Driver, Back to the Future, Stand by Me, Shaun of the Dead, Boogie Nights, La Dolce Vita, 12 Angry Men, The Birds, Touch of Evil

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