THE RUINS (Carnivorous Plants + Ending) EXPLAINED
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- Hey guys, what's happening? Niyat here with film comics explained, and as voted for by everyone in the latest poll, today we’ll be diving into The Ruins.
Based on the novel of the same name by Scott Smith, The Ruins is a 2008 horror film directed by Carter Smith that stars Jena Malone, Jonathan Tucker, Shawn Ashmore, Laura Ramsey, and Joe Anderson.
A relaxing holiday to Mexico turns into a nightmare when a group embark on a journey to explore a remote archaeological dig site in the jungle.
The exploration changes into a fight for survival when they encounter something evil in the ruins.
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I understand the villagers dedication to containing the vines, but they probably should of put warning signs all around the ruins in the first place
True. But keep out and beware signs tends to attract idiots lol
@@filmcomicsexplained agreed and when did any horror movie victim ever make a smart decision
No amount of warning signs will keep idiot americans from venturing in.
In the book and I think the movie they do put signs. But the plants keep pulling them down and hiding them. The trapped people try to put up a sign to watch the vine tear it down.
Like a sign saying 'Wet paint, do not touch"?
In any real life situation, if you travel to a foreign country and the locals tell you to not visit a specific place, *never* immediately go there.
Instead buy them a drink or so and ask, ASK THE LOCAL WHY? CANNOT GO THERE ...horror avoided
@@zethphyrzinnia0713
No because the local will always act all mysterious and refuse to tell you, which makes a person wanna check it out even more.
Idiots deserved what they got
I’m American. When I’ve traveled to other countries, I played by their rules. Didn’t do anything I wasn’t supposed too. Just don’t be a total cuck and you’ll be fine. These people had it coming. Sad.
Solid advice.
Saw this in theaters back in the day and my best friend and I will still say "we gotta break his legs" anytime a minor inconvenience happens
lol what a hilarious and dark in joke
@@filmcomicsexplained Love your content bro
now thats funny
"Aw man I left my wallet home"
"Welp, we gotta break his legs"
@@monkeykingyo6359 stop it. Get some help
I believe that I originally heard this theory from Roanoke, but it essentially goes like this.
The plants started off as a normal insect trapping carnivorous plant. But having been exposed to the blood from the sacrifices that were thrown down the shaft by the ancient Mayans, it adapted to feeding upon this new source of nourishment.
As it flourished and grow, it may have been viewed as a sign from the gods at first, but at some point the Mayans stop feeding it.
Either the original Mayans died out and the locals came along afterwards, or their view on the plant changed from being that of a gift to that of a demon.
Either way, the locals realised that the plant was dangerous and began salting the soil around the based of the temple. This is why there's a large gap between the treeline and the temple. Nothing can grow there, essentially quarantining the plant and containing it to the temple.
To lure a food source, plant learnt to replicate the soundwaves that were made near it. At a distance, it is able to use multiple stems to mimic sounds fairly well, almost like the sounds overlap like a choir. But up close the mimicry isn't as refined as there is more of a distorted noise.
It doesn't understand what sounds are, only that these sounds were being made the last time it found something to feed on.
As for the dragging of the bodies and attacking people. The plant only directly attacked when the flower was touched. This made the girls panic, thrashed around and start screaming, which triggered even more of the plant's snare reflexes.
In every other instance, the people were bleeding. It's the smell of blood that caused the tendrils to reach out to them. At no point did the plants try to attack someone that was neither bleeding or already touching them.
That's about it in a nutshell. Unintelligent plant, luring in stupid prey.
They they were stuck there and gonna die they should have set the temple and shaft on fire 🔥🔥🔥
@@Cold_Zero_The_Wise
Ikr? Hell, why in the God Dicking FAWK didn't the locals set the temple ablaze?!!!
I say nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Reminds me of a story I read about a lake in India or maybe it was Sri Lanka? Villagers would cremate bodies as best they could and then put them in the lake. Catfish ate the bodies and grew large enough iver time to attack people and drag them in.
@@shishoka I too vaguely remember something like that, though can't remember where exactly, and the people think it's whatever's gods will, or demons, that's doing this, even though it's kinda their own fault, but if tradition is being stupid...
I used to think this was fiction, no one could be that stupid to ignore warning signs from the locals. Then I lived in Costa Rica for 7 years and saw Americans do all kinds of stupid stuff even tho they were warned, so I guess most of this movies are more realistic than you'd think
Just Americans? In seven years you only saw Americans acting foolish in someone else’s country?
Tourist in general tend to not be very generous to the areas they visit
Us Americans be like that sometimes.
@@Ashas.Garden after working hospitality at some offshore vacation settings, I can tell you that not all fellow Americans are shit tourists but an alarming amount of shit tourists are American. The "loud/stupid American" label that gets volleyed around internationally is still a cliche because some people unfortunately keep reinforcing it. That, combined with more seasoned travelers who'll say they're Canadian to avoid being stereotyped, doesn't help either. I've certainly done it to avoid being prejudged in some places. 🤷🏽♀️
most realistic line in the movie when the white pre med student says “stuff like this doesmt happen to ppl like us”(paraphrase)😂
Kind of a guilty pleasure movie for me. Solid B-horror that's not really like anything else in the category.
Mid 2000s had some really cool hidden gem horror films!
I mean, its possible, most of those forests are unexplored. Theres probably all types of gnarly nightmarish shit just waiting, just nopes in every direction.
Likely nothing like these bloodthirsty vines.
But a Carnivoous Vine plant? High possibility.
I do like that it is plausible. The best horror always is
Love the part where they realise the plants are making the phone ringing noise. lol. Its silly but such a good reveal.
The one thing about this movie I never could understand, why didn't they ever introduce these plants to the fire goddess🔥🔥🔥
The plants didn't really react to the torches. Maybe they are resistant to fire if not used in sufficient amount. Which you could only reach be getting close which nobody wants.
@@thedragon133 You gotta imagine the villagers get supplies from elsewhere. Just get like, 20 barrels of oil or gas, dump it in the ruin, badda bing badda boom
I would have said bomb it but that would probably spread it
@@RaccAttack77 Right? Tons of oil would've burned those vines to a crisp. When it doubt, fire is always the answer. If fire doesn't work, that just means you're not using enough of it.
I think there was some information about this movie somewhere saying the plants were a combination of plant and fungus similar to lichens. They reproduces with spores that could spread through the air so burning them would blow a massive amount of spores into the air or something like that.
I would love to see a prequel to this, that would be interesting.
You mean a sequel… you want to watch another of it because no movie is just a standalone movie anymore, and you want to call it a prequel to make it seem less like McDonald’s
I mean the alternative ending did end on a huge cliffhanger...
@@jasong7373 maybe he wants a movie where this vine came from and what happens to the ruins or maybe you are right that he got confused on the prequel and sequel difference
@@Monkey_D_Luffy56 i was just being grumpy but if you ask me too many modern pieces of media interrogate those questions and ruin everything I mean isn’t the mystery and lack of backstory part of what makes a good story or character? Edit: think heath ledgers joker or the film annihilation
@@jasong7373 Well it depends on how they portrait the movie but most people seeks answer that's why CZcams channels that explains the mystery or have a theory about that certain mystery got a lot of views. Having a prequel on a movie where the villain is a win win scenario for both parties. If this movie in particular got a prequel or sequel it's gonna be awesome cause don't you wanna see a scenario where the world ends because of human being selfish to survive and sacrifices the humanity for her own sake.
When the book first came out,, I had to buy it and devoured it in 24 hours lol. My husband who was not a reader, asked me why I read it so fast, I challenged him to try to read it. It took him a week but he did it. We discussed how it would make a great movie, and before you could say Bob's your uncle, it was being made.
Side note: my husband has become a voracious reader lol.
When you keep using verbs like "devoured" and adjectives like "voracious", all you're doing is convincing me you actually ate the book
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@@justapillow2443 food for thought: maybe they did…
Is Ur husband single?
Props to your husband
If this was set in the Monsterverse, be an interesting way to introduce biollante
Now I want to see Biollante emerging from the ruins with a sombrero and a small bigote xD
I'm not a plant expert, given the fact plants need photosynthesis to survive, while real carnivorous plants evolve to borrow nitrogen from animals instead of the soil that was too acidic for them, but the origin of the plants seemed interesting as they could've come from an uncharted ecosystem.
Not all plants needs photosynthesis to the same degree... You probably kill a lot of indoor plants by putting them in direct sunlight don't you 😅
@@L3onking You’d probably feed them with water.
@@prehistorichero2755 I was giving it coffee cause it wouldn't grow fast enough, but you're right I probably should go back to water...
@@L3onking Lol
@@prehistorichero2755 I think it's more of a god/demon possessing the plant due to it being able to mimic noises and growing on a temple.
Real talk, on actual trips it’s when you go off plan or on the spur of the moment when situations develop and you can find yourselves in a survival situation.
The villagers were actually trying to warn them at first... Apparently it NEVER occurred to the locals to have someone that could translate in English, or Latin, or in Spanish or perhaps be even able to write in one such language an therefore tell them how close they are to the start of this movie.
All they needed to even destroy it was surround the area an then torch the Hell outta it. Not like the vines can escape and get away
Seems like an isolated place I think education on speaking a whole other language may be hard to come by
@@quirkyturtle6652 in THIS day an age.. an even when the movie was new which isn't far off from present. In the movie timeline things are at least set in the 1990s or so. Early 2000s maybe.. even THOSE locals coulda had LEAST 1 person fluent in any language where they see common tourists. They was advanced enough to use all sorts of things modern. An they were clearly familiar with modern American an other Indo European people so at least SOMEONE shoulda been able to say something in least broken English.. basically THIS one thing is the WHOLE reason the movie happens, ability to communicate.
That an the fact that modern various flame weapons are totally a thing.. an their plants that's the enemy too.. an during the natural of this rare an VERY both dangerous an aggressive plant due to the nature of such a tool/weapon woulda been obvious to deal with it. Since not so much as a spore can probably survive intense heat an fact that flames love to consume an burn away everything they touch.
But EVERYONE has to be dumb, the locals don't think to be rid of it, an the cast characters don't think to even bring so much as a translator device or book to even try to talk which is also common sense.. But I digress movie gotta movie an there'd be VERY few movies at all pretty much or they'd just not be much if little things like these, that would totally not be issues in real life, happened in them too
@@robertagu5533 eh fair enough but convincing some guy who knows English to dedicate their time staying near the pyramid seems kinda hard since hes just gonna be there out of his own free will just cause not like these people are getting paid to guard this thing. I don’t think that seeing random white people on the pyramid from time to time will make them familiar with them. Also I would like to point out there was a point in the movie where they make torches and the vines snatch the torches into them with ease so they’re not exactly easy to burn probably can but it’s gonna be hard. Since this is a proper plant and not a fungus probably dealing with seeds and not spores that’s no important just wanted to say that though some seeds can survive fires quite well.
"just torch the plant"
Also The Plant: Literally yeeted the torch out of women hand
Man nobody in the world speaks latin anymore, its been a dead language for centuries
I was not prepared to hear you say the phrase “like a gigachad” but I’m living for it
Gigachads always know when to say no
Today's culture brought into a movie from 2008.
Love this movie, I always love those old lore horror movies. Thanks for the vid man, love your polls.
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for covering this film/book. It seriously traumatized me when I first saw it and I was an adult! I think it made me think about it for days because I feel like there’s probably a plant out there in space that actually exists like this. Also, the people around the ruins who prevent them from leaving are the heroes of this film. They didn’t want to kill anyone, but they recognize the importance of keeping humanity safe. The only problem I had with the film is that it needed some editing and had parts of the film that seemed to long.
EDIT: removed a duplicate word
Plants eating animals, how creepy. Great video
I know, right?
Thanks Gage!
I remember seeing this movie in theaters and to this day I still get freaked out when I remember the girl cutting off bits of herself to try to get the vines out of her. There's something so viscerally horrible about something crawling around under your skin
We need so many more movies where plants and fungi are lethal. Instead of having films about zombies every single year.
This movie is amazing and the book is a must read if you love body horror. The ending in the book is so much darker than the movie but I love all the endings. If you liked the movie definitely check out the book. It still makes my arms and legs itch and squirm to think about. Great video!
Spoil me, what happens in the ending of the book?
Where can I read it
@@sebastiengendron6427 they all died. The movie swapped the characters' roles quite a bit but it ended with Stacy slashing her wrists to commit suicide so that she can leave her body at the front of the hill as a warning. But the vines drag her away while she was still alive and consume her, all while the Mayans were packing things up and leaving because they knew she was the last one left and would die soon. Thus, there were no warning signs (the vines were smart enough to remove any other signs), so the remaining Greeks and some girls inevitably arrives and doomed themselves as well.
I wonder why the villagers never try to burn the vines from a distance
This film and book are both a guilty pleasure , thanks for covering it
I recommend the book for anyone interested. It delivers on the paranoia and hopelessness that gets lost in the gore horror and lack of narration in the film.
I liked the ending where the vines are seen growing on the gravestone of one of the characters 👍 it was a deleted scene/alternate ending
Well congratulations Amy… you’ve brought a homicidal plant into a population center full of innocents who will become a giant Slurpee for the vines.
I do as well!! I didn’t expect that.
I love how you explain the plot as well as the creatures
Kudos to the locals who know what the place is, but you think they would, idk, set the whole pyramid on fire and salt it further through the years to just and push it back into the ruins to better control the thing?
Yeah they should have burnt the whole place for sure
@@filmcomicsexplained In "The Girl with all the gifts" they burning a large group of seed pods, but while many were destroyed outright a lot of the seeds/spores got carried into the air by the heat induced updraft and spread even further. The locals probably fear burning the pyramid will stead seeds somewhere else.
An industrial size tank of Roundup attached to a firehose would have melted the psycho plants without any issues
Found it to be a surprisingly effective horror movie. Reminds me that I do need to read the book sometime. Thank you!
You need to do a colab with Roanoke Gaming. You can explain the lore, he can explain the biology.
That would be dope! Professor Roanoke and Dr FilmComics :)
I would love to see this! Them and wow such gaming are my favorite!
I believe I've said it before I absolutely love your videos in the detail you go into explaining a movie as to where a person doesn't have to watch it but being able to understand it so much more. Great video
Imagine a horror movie where the victims can call for help, but every time they try they either get interrupted by the antagonist, or they can’t give the authorities their location because they don’t know and rescue agencies don’t automatically know where people are calling from, especially if they’re calling on a satellite phone in the middle of the wilderness and locating them takes some detective work in and of itself.
I remember this movie thanks for bringing this back to my attention.
I remember watching this movie and finding Amy the most insufferable character.
And that’s saying something as they’re ALL completely insufferable.
I agree! I was bummed that she "made it", lol
This movie is pretty bad tbh, watched it today with my girlfriend and what are these braindead decisions
Would you like to see a sequel?
There's a viral marketing campaign for The Ruins that involved a virologist or botanist testing the vine by placing some in his arm. I've never been able to find it but its really interesting that they had some idea of how the vines would infect someone.
I requested this video so long ago makes my day to see you cover one of my favorite scary movies!
This is why I subscribed to you… I actually seen you a few years ago and you didn’t even ask to like and subscribe lmao maybe you forgot but I think you are aware to know when editing. Thank you for the quality.
Thanks Xavier!
Wow blast from the past. I remember this movie XD. I think I hated it as a kid but I also don't remember a thing about it at the same time
i could genuinely listen to you narrate paint dry 💕💕 love you babes tysm for your content xo
I guess Amy didn't survive long enough to warn whoever found her of the danger.
Thanks so much for this, I watched this years ago and it stuck with me but I couldn't remember the name.
Watched this movie a few months ago and had a nightmare about me being there😳
This was a great movie
I hate it when that happens
Rebuffs like a giga chad😂💀
Been looking forward to this one!
Nice breakdown mate. Been a big fan of this movie since its release. Very underrated. It's actually filmed in my home state of Queensland, Australia. Wouldn't really notice it's not actually Mexico.
Day of the Triffids - Deadliest plant movie ever!
Ruins - Hold my chlorophyll smoothie.
I’ve been waiting for this one 🔥🔥
lets go JMARK Hunter!
God I know their desperate but Amy was so damn stupid... Roanoke could agree. Also as another commenter said, you and Roanoke need a colab
For sure!
I'll re-watch an entire movie beforehand just so I can watch your video explaining the ins and outs of said movie. Great work 👍
Ruins vs molotov cocktails thrown by locals on a daily basis would ahhh prune the site lol
Great video bro. Love it. Keep it up
I remember watching this YEARS ago! I thought about it but could never find the title, awesome!
Tbh at first glance I thought the thumbnail said "The Runs" and not "The Ruins" and I was like "What does carnivorous plants have to do with diarrhea issues?"
lol
This is classic. I still remember how the vines are growing inside the body
This is the only book I have ever read nonstop from beginning to end in one sitting. Highly recommend
Movie vs Book differences:
In the book, a Greek man ("Pablo", but his real name is Demetri) who doesnt speak English joins their group. He's the one who fell down the shaft and broke his back, causing the vines to eat his legs and the group being forced to cut them off. The whole time he's sick with fever and has no way of communicating with the rest of the group, so its likely he didn't know they were going to cut off his legs until they finally did.
Movie!Mathias seems to be a blend of himself and Book!Pablo.
Book!Stacy is the one who got drunk and kissed one of the Greeks, but she did turn away when he tried to get her to join his tent. The vine tries to torment Eric by making up sounds of Stacy having sex with Mathias, which upsets Eric because Stacy has been known to be promiscuous.
Book!Eric is the one who gets infected with vines. At a certain point he went insane and tried to flay his skin to remove the vines, stabbing Mathias and killing him in the process when he tried to stop him. He then begged Stacy to mercy-kill him, which she obliges.
Book!Amy dies after she got into a fight with Jeff when he caught her eating their food/water rations AGAIN. She was drunk and puking and the vines stuffed themselves into her mouth to make her suffocate on her own vomit. Despite Jeff being a couple of feet away, he refused to help Amy because of their fight, being completely unaware that Amy was being suffocated because it was nighttime and too dark to see.
Book!Jeff dies trying to sneak past the Mayans, hoping that the mist that rolled in would provide enough cover. It did not. They shot him down with arrows.
Book!Stacy is the last one standing. After all of her friends have died, she slashes her wrist to try and leave her dead body at the front of the hill as warning to other visitors. The vines removed her while she was alive and consumed her, thus leaving no warning signs behind.
What a calamitous cliché that was. What happened to letting buried things stay buried
To quote Terry Pratchett: “Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
@@thedorkone1516 well said
Not going to lie but I thought a serial killer was there all along it was grass plants. Love this movie
I just finished reading the book this morning. Hop onto CZcams and what do I find? This! ^_^
Talk about perfect timing.
That's a truly terrifying concept.
Underrated movie. This was awesome to watch in the theater.
from how few the setting place, the actors, basic plot sounds like B movie, I thought this was a small movie, but surprise me on behind the scene they actually well equiped and even have many plenty body replacement for every body scene
The alternative ending would’ve been so cooool to see!
wow! another movie I missed on released I managed to find because of channels like this. this is why distributors should let people do these types of videos instead of beingso uptight about it! Thanks! I'll be checking it out!
Love all your videos!
Yay! Thank you!
@@filmcomicsexplained been watching for 2-3 years I think. Your “explanation” of vivarium was amazing still freaks me out! Keep up the great work and thank for responding, very unexpected and much appreciated my friend!
Excellent excellent film. Really enjoyed it.
The child scene is a gem. Tense af. The locals are desperate, but they had nothing else to do
Come for the content, stay for the banger outro music.
I remember watching this movie when I was younger even though I didn't intend to (it was playing on a tv in the same room I was in and I didnt start paying attention at all until the scene with the girls going down into the ruins) and the scene with the blonde girl going crazy about cutting the vines out of her traumatized me and refused to ever leave my mind, especially as someone with OCD. That scene played in my head on repeat even as I debated whether to watch this video lol.
after finishing first time watching this movie, i was thinking they should inform Mexican government about the danger and Napalm the whole pyramid lol
The Ruins is so good, always makes my skin crawl, man.
Seen it like 3 times now, I highly recommend it.
That temple would’ve been on fire 24/7. Might be able to snuff out a little torch but I would burn all sides salting as I go.
Great vid as always bud, my recommendations for future vids,
The Sphere
Devil
Saturn 3
Good choices!
@@filmcomicsexplained thanx bud, that robot really freaked me out when I was a kid
I really love your videos and would love to see one on the 1992 movie Split Second
Bruh i remember watching this as a kid on cable and falling asleep sitting up
To quote Pinhead from Hellraiser Inferno:
“Ah the eternal human refrain. Please help me, I don’t understand”
That summarizes this movie to me”
Plants, they're either your best ally (Plants vs Zombies) or your worst enemy (The Happening, The Ruins).
This is the one reason I’m glad napalm exists
11:29 never noticed this in the movie wow it makes the ending way different
“Like a gigachad” came WAY out of left field, so funny
If Poison Ivy watched movies, this'll probably be her favorite.😱
She might be a producer on this, lets double check lol
@@filmcomicsexplained DAAAYYYUUUMMM!!!😂
"The carnivorous plants from the ruins explained". Love both of your channels but you and roanoke gaming have a lot of repeated content between the two. He did almost exactly this video a year ago. But, I'll still watch give a like and such because I can't get enough of this kinda content (just wish there was a bit of a broader diversity in movies covered). No shade great content either way👍
This movie came out in 2008 and I was a late bloomer. I had just got my first cell phone and was just fascinated by it's functions. When I say the wellwith the red flowers...and was fooled by the ringing...then saw the vibrating staymens..I justa bout lost my s&*% sitting in that darkened cinema. Really creeped me out...this was very good movie. Like your channel...... a very nice critique and review...Kudos!
This flick was def unexpected which made it very good 👍🏾
Well these would surely be studied and used for medicine or weaponry. Poison Ivy from Batman would fall in love. Has no one tried fire?
Very creative plot
I definitely need to see this movie.
Hi Niyat, great video, could you do "Strange Days" 1995 or put it in the poll, Thanks, Rob
This is one of my favorite movies
Didn't know this was a prequel to the Happening!
This movie should be called "Wypipo being regular"
Movies a great mix of suspense and body horror. Great watch for horror fans.
Coronavirus plants? That's worse than Murder Hornets!
When film comic retell the movie. I see now. The easier solution is throw some vines / bushes at the local and have them end one another to escape. (Before the whole broke his leg and were stuck there for days)
Jokes aside. Seeing as to how close the local kids got to this supposedly dangerous pyramid. I assume that the elder and only a few warriors were educated in said danger. They didn't bother to keep the kids back at the village. (I'd say)
I watched this way back and thought it was pretty good but maybe I might revisit it, it's a surprisingly decent film.
Something that could have been avoided with a Rosetta stone subscription
What really gets me is that the girl that set off the entire movie is the only one that survives...😡
Great film