The Ruins [2008]

The Ruins [2008]

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In a dark, dungeon-like room, a young woman tries to call for help on her mobile phone. Unable to receive a signal, she is dragged away by an unseen force.

Two young American couples (Jeff and Amy along with Eric and Stacy) vacation in Mexico. At the pool of their hotel, they make friends with a German tourist, Mathias, and decide to help Mathias look for his brother, Heinrich. Heinrich has met a female archaeologist and followed her to an archaeological dig at a remote Mayan ruin in the jungle. The next morning Jeff, Amy, Eric, Stacy, Mathias, and Demetri and Gregor (a pair of greek tourists they also met at the hotel) begin the journey by bus.

The location of the ruin is shown on a crude map Heinrich drew before departing. After a long ride, the group arrives at a remote village near the dig and takes a worn-down taxi to the destination marked on the map. The driver tries to warn them away from the area, but they insist, and after arriving at the trail head, they spot Heinrich's jeep and proceed.

Upon arrivial, Mayan villagers appear with guns and bows. When Amy accidentally steps into vines covering the ruin, the Mayans aim their weapons at them. Demetri tries to calm the situation by walking over to Amy and grabbing the camera, which he thought was the cause of the problem. After stepping into the vines and taking the camera he begins to walk towards the Mayans. Then he is struck with an arrow in his shoulder and then shot in the head. The Mayans then force the others up to the temple roof.

They find an abandoned camp with two tents and a shaft in the center leading down vertically into a temple. Eric and Mathias are the only two with mobile phones, but Eric's has no signal and the Mayans stole the other. At the shaft bottom, they can hear a mobile phone ringing. Mathias says he is certain it's his brother's ringtone and is lowered down. But the rope breaks, and he falls into the darkness, hitting bottom thirty feet below. Meanwhile, Amy descends the temple steps to reason with the Mayans. When she angrily throws a clump of vines at them and hits a young boy, they promptly kill the boy. Later, Stacy and Amy also descend the shaft to help Mathias and to find the mobile phone. Mathias has broken his back. Jeff and Eric rig a backboard and the paralyzed Mathias is lifted out.

Next morning, Stacy observes a tendril of vine has crept into a wound on her leg. The vines have also wrapped themselves around Mathias's lower legs and eaten them down to the bone. The mobile phone is heard once more. Stacy and Amy descend the shaft and in a small, vine-covered room find the body of the young archaeologist from the opening scene and her phone, which is broken. The flowers are vibrating and screeching, reproducing the ring of the phone. The vines attack, but the two manage to escape. Stacy is convinced the vines are alive, and growing inside her. The group now realizes the vines are predatory and the Mayans are keeping everyone quarantined. They have also salted the earth all around the hill. Jeff insists that "four Americans on vacation don't just disappear" and that help is on the way.

With Mathias' condition getting worse, Jeff amputates both his legs. Stacy becomes jealous at Eric comforting Amy, saying she overheard them having sex. When Jeff tries to defuse the situation, Stacy calls Amy's fidelity into question. While the four argue, the vines suffocate Mathias. The group suddenly realizes that the vines and their flowers are able to replicate their sounds.

Stacy knows the vines are now growing inside her and can be seen moving across her back, leg, and forehead. Jeff cuts out two but stops after realizing the futility of his efforts. Stacy claims she can feel more, but the others reluctantly deny her pleas to remove them. While the rest sleep, Stacy sneaks out of her tent and begins to cut the other vines out herself. When Eric tries to stop her, she fatally stabs him. As the vines move in to take Eric's body, Jeff removes the knife and kills Stacy, who is crying to be put out of her misery.

Realizing they'll eventually die, Jeff makes a plan for Amy to escape. He carries her to the bottom of the temple and lays her on the ground making it seem she has died. While distracting the Mayans, Jeff is shot with an arrow, then shortly later dispatched with a shot to the head. Meanwhile, Amy makes it to the jeep and escapes, but before the film cuts to black, the vines can be seen moving under her skin. In a final scene, Demetri's Greek friends are seen moving toward the temple, repeating the cycle.