The Ruins - Phelous

[@talynhastime9343]

Okay, even if the movie's dumb, the fact that the plants can mimic sounds and grow out of people is a scary concept.

[@Hauptseite]

It's a really cool concept. They could have been hinted at as the spirits of nature getting revenge or a space rock landed there and mutated them or any number of potential explanations, but damn, the characters were fucking stupid. Leaving the guy just lying beside the plants? Really?!

[@metalbrainmextrememetalent6810]

The movie is on amazon prime. I like it.

[@ZackExplorer28]

@@Hauptseite wasn't there an old movie about a space rock landing on Earth and turning plants into monsters? while also making most people blind?

[@Alucard-A-La-Carte]

A lot of terrible movies start with the seed of a great idea. It really highlights the necessity of things like coherent scripting, talented acting, and solid editing...movies require a LOT.

[@Tareltonlives]

Smart plants would be a really disturbing idea, and a really good one.

[@Raygathex]

This movie is actually based on a novel by the same name. In the book there are a few key features about the plants that help make more sense of its abilities and why they dont just burn it. 1) The plants need bodies to gestate their seeds, effectively parasitism. 2) They mimic sounds hoping to attract prey, as flowers in real life mimic scents to help pollinate. 3) The natives wont burn the plant in fear of any spores getting carried away by the hot fires. Thats why they burned and salte dthe land around the temple to keep it isolated.

[@kipandren]

Sorry for the necropost, but you got me thinking more about the nuances of this movie (and the book, by extension). Did the The Ruins book give any explanation of how they kept the wildlife out? They're in the middle of a jungle, so there would be tons of birds flying into the vines all through the day and night. Wouldn't it make more sense for the vines to develop ways of attracting birds specifically? Adaptations such as mimicking bird calls, producing twigs or fluff that they would like to use for their nests, or having yummy berries that birds enjoy eating as many real world plants do? The birds would then carry the vine all throughout the jungle before the seeds gestated and killed them. Why would the vine even bother attracting humans? I'm probably overthinking this!

[@latayesha]

@@kipandren Maybe just read the book

[@Critiqu3]

​@kipandren yes the book does go over all of it. I'm reading it now and tbh it's just as infuriating as the movie, but at least it EXPLAINS everything that happens. The movie is just shit

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

You know what I love? That the shot that dude with an arrow in the arm in what could be argued was a non-fatal shot....ONLY THEN TO BLOW HIS HEAD OFF. Almost as if they knew they had no real story to go on so they just decided to depend on as much shock value as possible.

[@yeti112]

So that was a movie is about the blood bush from Dingo Pictures

[@Usagi393]

yeti112 Wabuu’s ax murdered sacrifices weren’t enough. It needs blood!

[@bruh-gn5kc]

Hey, you make those RE Parodies! Question: Considering you made a REmake parody, will you make one for the RE2 REmake?

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

Blood! I need your BLOOOOOOOOOD!

[@Tareltonlives]

Nah, the Blood Bush was scary

[@DeathofInk]

In the original novel ending the characters all die and the plants remain trapped in the ruins, with the Mayans having a system where anyone foolish enough to go there is kept from spreading the plants. However the director had the ending changed to what we saw, his reason being: "I love the ending of the book, but if the movie had ended the same way, the audience would have wanted to kill themselves." So an ending where the plants manage to escape and potentially spread across the planet and kill thousands of people is less horrific then having them still trapped in the ruins?!

[@KossolaxtheForesworn]

that is a trope of american movie making. the ending must be kind of happy no matter what. hell, if they were making movie adaptation of The Brothers Lionheart, they would fuck it up so incredibly bad there would be no way of fixing it. even managed to fuck up the girl with a dragon tattoo because americans dont understand melancholy and everything must be simplified.

[@KoiPuff]

The only time I've ever seen a movie go darker than the source material is The Mist. The short story ends with them driving off, unsure of what will happen but hopeful. The movie's ending is so much better and even the writer (Stephen King) said he wished he'd thought of it.

[@CanItAlready]

MrAnimepredator How is the ending of the movie where the plant escapes in the girl happier than the ending of the book where it apparently doesn't?

[@notoverwatch6991]

MrAnimepredator wtf i hate Americans now

[@Ratciclefan]

Not Overwatch I think it's the fault of people who make movies rather than America in general. They seem to think their people are too stupid to understand a complex plot.

[@Nekucloud]

So the moral of the story is: "don't go to forbidden temples with strangers or else you'll be killed by evil plants!"🤔

[@bryceandrew13]

All I have to say is this: "Do we have the capacity to make fire? Most humans have enjoyed that privilege since the Stone Age." -Ripley, Alien 3

[@TheWilderCat]

Alien 3

[@GirlYouDontKnow-rx3lm]

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS!

[@wilmagregg3131]

@@geoffreysorkin5774 still they grow back from being cut as well but burning liquid or enough fire or naplam would still kill the plants entirly if you drop enough of it on them

[@faizfuad8361]

@@wilmagregg3131 based on what the books describes of the plants, it leans more to the supernatural, too much i think not even nuclear weapon can handle that lol

[@wilmagregg3131]

@@faizfuad8361 yeah but it seems like its more fantasy style and not lovecraft style so it still has rules and fire seems to hurt it and it makes sense why the natives couldnt do it at first cause all the old fire methods required getting close or not having enough to throw to get it all a plane full of naplam or burning tar dropping over the whole temple should still end it

[@mastermarkus5307]

I'm pretty sure that guy who got his legs "amputated" should've bled out, but apparently his legs were just made of fresh butchers' cuts so there was no blood to lose!

[@magnasupreme]

and not even withany pesky tendons and bones in the middle of his legs

[@lisamarie5937]

I know this comment is old, but in the movie they do cauterize his legs after cutting them off.

[@mastermarkus5307]

@MKMW C Eh? That doesn't change how the human body works. Unless I'm missing some weird lore that explains it?

[@starwarsnerd100]

Ok so the brunette girl throws the plant at the kid. Apparently the plants are so dangerous that the older Mayan (the kid's dad?) has to IMMEDIATELY shoot him. So why did it take brunette girl forever to show signs of plantification? And shouldn't they be concerned about someone stepping on that plant piece? Did they move the kid's body? Maybe they aren't really that infectious and Mayan Dad was just sick of Junior refusing to clean his room.

[@talynhastime9343]

+starwarsnerd100 Really, really late comment, but I think since they know what the kid's fate is, it's better that he die now than to drag it out? And given that they've lived with the plants long enough to know all about them, it could be that the local victims may even linger longer (and suffer longer) than some random tourists who've never come into contact with the plant before? And since the plant seems to grow just fine out of living flesh, they could be trying to get rid of a living host?

[@butchdeadlift10]

After all these years I realized tossing salt on these ruins would have solves a ton of problems.

[@scitechian]

What a clever little white witch.

[@butchdeadlift10]

@Winwin My Heart What the Incans or horror movie characters?

[@jaqjynx]

Yes your make shift surgery will definitely not cause his legs to get infected

[@heartbust4624]

@Joseph Wilson Not once it makes contact with air

[@vincentseeger9367]

@MKMW C I’m not the one who gave humanity such comfy urethras 😂

[@anikmonette2140]

I love how a big, manly guy like Phelous is recreating movie posters/covers, and especially when the lead is a sexy woman.😁

[@TheBarrelsBottom]

I think the idea for The Ruins could've been cool if it was handled much better

[@arcadeassassin7176]

why don't the Mayans just build a wall or fence around the ruins to stop people form getting in.

[@selena0755]

Honestly tho

[@in_vas_por8810]

* Trump intensifies *

[@Commanderziff]

A wall or a fence would do nothing to stop teenage tourists from getting in. It would need to be twelve feet tall, electrified, and manned by armed guards at all times. Frankly building a wall might just draw more attention to it.

[@arcadeassassin7176]

@@Commanderziff i'm just saying the Mayans have hundreds of years to think of ways to keep people out and the best they could come up with is five guys with shotguns who come out of the bushes and chase people farther into the ruins. i mean they didn't even put up a sign.

[@carlosrivas1629]

@@in_vas_por8810 says liberals with walls and fences protecting thier homes;, just open your door and let anyone in, that is the same dumb logic your using.

[@louiscypher4996]

This is possibly the darkest origin story of Poison Ivy I've ever seen.

[@azurengamer9392]

so these flowers stay in one ancient ruin for centuries and the local Mayans thought "hey these weeds are deadly and could wipe us all out, lets burn them b4 that could happen."... the locals in this movie are almost as smart as the plants.

[@foxyr4bbit]

+AzurenGamer well that is a compliment bc those plants were v smart

[@Laroling]

I think the general idea was supposed to be these things grow back no matter what...but atleast then the chars should have attempted to burn the m-ffer down to show after all was in vain.

[@ShojoBakunyu]

I figured maybe the plants were part of their religion or something so they contained them but didn't wipe them out.

[@SuperChochip]

Wait, didn't Matias say he couldn't feel his legs? Why is he screaming as they're being amputated?

[@planescaped]

Paralysis means you can't move them, not that you cannot feel them being amputated.

[@AngeAlexiel]

actually you should listen more carefully what the characters said ... cos one character has asked the exact same question to the brown hair guy xD

[@SuperChochip]

It's been a while since I've seen the movie, nor do I want to rewatch it because, you know, bad movie. I'll take your word for it...

[@anikmonette2140]

planescaped Depends what kind of injuries you have: paralysis comes often with insensitivity to pain but the dumbasses explain why anyway in the movie...

[@oddeyes9413]

If he can't feel anything, it was the sheer experience of seeing his legs being chopped off. That'd be pretty horrible to watch.

[@christopherspaulding9283]

So... It's the "Little Shop of Horrors" and "Cabin Fever" gory baby-flick? And I know it's based on a book...

[@GOFFBITZH666]

It's more like *"The Crawlers"* and "Cabin Fever 3"... With Mayans.

[@T5ComixCartoonz]

8:32 Shit! They would have been better off just killing him with that rock instead. Would have been WAY more merciful. :/

[@kingfarquaad4422]

I remember seeing the beginning of this movie on SYFY years ago and changing the channel because it was boring. Apparently, I missed a lot. Damn, I was stupid.

[@skylarsunday]

"Executive Producer Ben Stiller" whut.

[@MsDjessa]

Oh but Phelous if they would have used that pesky logic we wouldn't have had the cheap shock of child killing. : P I have to admit though, as silly as it was I did find it creepy that the plant mimicked sounds.

[@JThom529]

CHILD MURDERER CHILD MURDERERRR

[@Tareltonlives]

Three ways to do a killer plant story: 1. Venomous plants, exagerrations of real venomous plants that grow everywhere and quickly 2. fantasy flesh-growing plants with barbed seeds or something like that. 3. Not this.

[@MrZmax95]

How to tell a group of people or young adults are idiots: -There's that one guy who's shirtless and has a six pack -They get drunk occasionally -One of them tries to escape and ditch their friends -and the one who is smart but the others go to that place of danger anyway

[@BulletTooth504]

8:33 It was either this, bashing his brains in with a rock, or letting him drink all the tequila and maybe die from alcohol poisoning. They clearly went for the wiser, more humane option.

[@KatKaleen]

This is still one my favorite reviews from you. I dunno why, but "gets volunTOLD to go down" cracks me up every time I hear it.

[@IsaacCollector]

I like the idea of a plant being the main danger in a movie. however, it would've been way better if it actually acted like a plant, meaning it would grow in specific directions while also being hostile towards people, but more in a passive way

[@kobaltsteel6418]

Isaac Clorke that would terrify the crap out of me, especially if the plants were carrion flowers!

[@Bismuth83X]

I can't be the only one here who thinks the amputation scene was made worse by adding music to it, right? I mean, it was already bad: The guy is SCREAMING IN PAIN as they double-amputate him using stone-age techniques, and by adding the music, it makes it seem like some sort of cartoonish sequence... of a guy getting both his legs cut off with a rock. Unless that was already in the movie...

[@sirsmallwood]

I know it's a year late, but damn, yeah. That one got to me for some reason.

[@NagalandHH]

That's not the original music.

[@RayValdezPhotography]

@@NagalandHH lol its funny if he thinks that is the original music.

[@BrinaFlautist]

You... you do realize that it was Phelous who added Hungarian Dance No. 5 in there, right?

[@Bismuth83X]

@@BrinaFlautist Yes.

[@tyrant-den884]

You have made a failed horror movie if the killer is only shown to be a danger to idiots.

[@WhiteN0iz]

Okay I have to admit, the basic premise is kind of legitimately freaky. But I have a thing about plants.

[@DeclanCorey]

CHRISTMAS TREES LAWNCHAIRS BRICKS WHAT IS LIVING DOWN HERE, MAYANS?

[@chanofrom69th]

The plant as a CONCEPT is a fantastic idea

[@kobaltsteel6418]

I'll tell you something, this movie is super terrifying for me because... for me, these plants look so ugly and creepy... and it plays on the thought of plants moving and killing you, something that scares me. I can't even look at the review without shivering and covering my eyes.

[@BooneErica]

Who else watches enough horror movies to know that if you are in a new country and a stranger walks up to a group of young adults and asks them to go with them to a ruin or hostel, is to SAY NO?

[@Daruqe]

If you're gonna have an ON SCREEN amputation scene in your movie, you better have a pretty FUCKING GOOD FUCKING REASON to FUCKING DO IT. (like not in a movie where all the characters are terrible people and the amputee dies in the next scene)

[@lainiwakura666]

yep they probably wanted him to shut up already about finding his brothers dead body and possibly being paralyzed from the waist down . like seriously ! his cries of misery almost got in the way of these people arguing about who's sleeping with who !

[@Dreigonix]

Just torture porn for the sake of torture porn. It's not scary, it's not effective, it's just gross and stupid.

[@zenmar2415]

I wish they would have gotten amy in the end honestly. being that the plant seems so dangeous to the point that they are willing to kill their own kid because it touched him means that thing can spread in so many ways that being barely in contact with it would be dangerous for that person and the people around them.

[@theotherghostgirl337]

Can I get a link to the "what is living down here Mayans?" Video?

[@THERealRibbitBartono]

This is relevant to interests

[@jelly_4_brainz]

This is still relevant, I'll try to find it for yall

[@jelly_4_brainz]

Spent most of the night googling for it, could not find it, will try again sometime today after a nap

[@jelly_4_brainz]

@A Scam Involving Corndogs I was not able to search intensively at the time, then I had to finish getting my GED, now I'm trying to get a job in order to get wifi at my house so I can try the search again. Roachdogg Jr hasn't forgotten you, brothers

[@annietrinity1833]

He said the vine crawled inside her WOUND. I misheard.

[@heathercalun4919]

Heh heh.... That's a _different_ movie...

[@Dreigonix]

If this whole thing ended with tentacle hentai instead of stupid gore, it would be much more enjoyable.

[@cytorakdemon]

Man, this little shop of horrors spin-off is really weak. Audrey 2 barely did any singing.

[@mczuh6140]

Eric Coldfire well audrey 2 mimic the phone

[@PaulRaiiin15]

Fuck KZbin! Keep fighting Phelous and keep uploading too!

[@DigiAkuma]

Ben stiller produced this movie? Better check wiki just to be safe.... Oh damn it is true. According to IMDB he was involved with this film because he is a friend of novelist / screenwriter Scott B. Smith. HEY BEN! STICK WITH STUFF YOU'RE USED TO, LIKE COMEDY!

[@RabbitHole20]

Soooooo did Poison Ivy co-directed this movie?

[@DocsMistake]

Man, I can remember seeing this in theaters while waiting to go in for my shift at the movie theater, 3 pm on a friday afternoon, with 2 other people in the theater, it is so bad

[@Canadamus_Prime]

So what exactly was keeping this plant at those ruins anyway? Like clearly it can grow on other things besides people, what's stopping it from spreading across the ground and attacking the Mayans and everything else?

[@in_vas_por8810]

There could be a few explanations but the main point is: if you're a person and you go there, and the plant assimilates inside of you, you are now a huge threat to nearby civilization, and possibly the world. It would reach people much faster, and maybe the only thing keeping it there is some kind of magical boundary which it can't cross itself? It doesn't even have to be that though... Just think about the rain forest, or any forest or large plant species. Those things aren't completely growing out of control and taking over the whole Earth, are they? They stop at some point. The plant(s) are probably root locked and at their max potential within those ruins. It's either that, or theres some form of magic/higher intelligence at work.

[@badjokemaker3051]

Saw this movie with my ex before we broke up...I think it was the Moment everything went into shit.

[@lilme2me]

lol.

[@badjokemaker3051]

God dammit your name is fucking long!

[@Anyre.]

Badjoke Maker you could say that the relationship was RUINED. Eh??... I'll let myself out

[@badjokemaker3051]

This funny actually. I feel ashamed and entertained. You Humor is like porn!

[@Anyre.]

Badjoke Maker ha! I will take that compliment with honor! 😂

[@josephshriner2850]

Alright, no shade, but this was actually a solid adaptation of cosmic horror to cinema. Also, probably the best use of the entitled foreigner trope. That said, the review was still entertaining. Solid work, Phelous. Thanks for the entertainment.

[@averagegamecritic]

Plants can rapidly evolve, but this is pushing it just a bit much

[@AnnaDee101]

You sound so calm in this video.

[@V1NCYN1CAL]

9:42 The movie would be way better with those sound effects.

[@michaelwautraets7126]

Executive producer: Ben Stiller, proceeds with the MAGNUM look.

[@iKadaj]

I've been looking for this review because I read the book of this, and all I remember about it is that the characters had to go pee on pretty much every page. Like all they did was pee! The author had a serious pee fetish. When they weren't peeing they were talking about how to purify pee into drinking water. I don't remember anything about the movie at all except that they decided to omit all the pee. Oh and I like that horsey on the dresser at the end of the video.

[@cassondrahunt4509]

Danny Cam Sounds like Stephen Kings books. His characters, even the female ones, thought about urine when they were not pissing.

[@StrudelerOfTheTSociety]

A movie that, in the same vein as The Happening, teaches us that burning all plants is the solution.

[@thientuongnguyen2564]

You forgot "The Girl with All the Gifts" as burning them plants unleashed all the spores, killing the last of humanity.

[@destroyerinazuma96]

What I meant by attempting at building a premise for a better film was to show how it still sounds more logical (plan - choice - consequences wise) than the plot of the Ruins which boils down to "quickly! think of any silly reason these youngsters can get to that only location where killer plants live!" also waste of actors and make-up. P0rn have better plots than the Ruins.

[@Pyroniusburn]

Reupload? Copyright crap maybe?

[@wolfgangervin2582]

that and the general scramble occuring in TGWTG land due to Blip dying

[@Pyroniusburn]

Wolfgang Ervin This was uploaded on Phelous' youtube before, I was just wondering why it's been uploaded to youtube again.

[@EmperorKrow]

+Pyroniusburn same here

[@Pyroniusburn]

Wrath's Attack I was perfectly aware of that, read my second comment.

[@HashUpAshole]

+Pyroniusburn Don't have to sound like a spergy asshat.

[@DozenthTurmoil]

Wait how could he feel his legs being cut off if he was paralyzed from the waist done

[@anikmonette2140]

Kalarias the Dark God of Omnicide Depends on how he was injured... But morons I the movie explains anyways! 😉

[@ShojoBakunyu]

They forget that once the families report them missing they'll contact the cell company to use their last known GPS location to send a search party...

[@wellthatwaswierd4570]

It's so cute how phelous pronounces ruins as 'runes'. Same with iron as 'eye-ron' and modern as 'mod-dren'. I've asked some Canadian friends if that's just a Canada thing but they said no (but it might be a regional thing, as I don't know what part of Canada phelous comes from and aren't enough of a stalker to try to look it up online). I've never really heard anyone else pronounce those words like that, it used to catch my attention every single time it happened, until I started actually watching for it. So adorkable! ;-) I love the way what region you come from affects pronunciation. Like how Brits say 'al-you-min-ee-yum' for 'aluminum' or 'zeb-rah' instead of 'zeee-brah'. (Since I hail from San Diego California, USA, I'm sure that the way I say stuff is unusual to people as well. I'm not saying any of this as any kind of criticism of people's accents or regional dialects)

[@user-dr2yz8um3d]

the movie turns 10 today!I remember seeing this movie senior year in high school it was before going on spring break to Costa Rica

[@memyopinionsche6610]

That plant should have been M Night Shyamalan movie The Happening probably would have been far more entertaining.

[@randalgraves6979]

What?!?! Nooooooo

[@ElNingyou]

ALRIGHT, A NEW PHELLLLL--oh.

[@pythiasibyls6269]

I don't know why I like this video so much, but whenever I need silly background noise, I go to this. LOL

[@CommanderViviax]

Why the frag haven't the Mayans dealt with them! They've had years! Burn the plants. Salt the earth. Make a wall. Rocks or something natural looking. Make it hard to get to. Built a moat. Napalm the place and don't stop till it's a crater. I'm sure they could come up with something using basic parts.

[@TheDeadCobraTheDeadCobra]

They known that they are being possessed by the plants and yet they chose to let someone to escape

[@michaelkeha]

Um Phelous firing up at a smaller target with a bow is actually pretty difficult even with that revolver it's more difficult hence why having the high ground means having an advantage.

[@GarveyPeterson]

where's the virtual boy clip from?

[@ripleyjlawman.3162]

Garvey Peterson Mortal Komedy?

[@dancepiglover]

How did you not make an Evil Dead reference or Little Shop of Horrors?

[@averagegamecritic]

Plants are kinda magic, true, but they do specify to a degree. Like Venus Flytraps and plants that have memories exist, but they don’t instantly rapidly evolve that quick.

[@kingofthegundam7974]

Let's face it, this movie is RUINED.

[@GOFFBITZH666]

Pun?

[@kingofthegundam7974]

+XxDAMARIESU123xX {DA ACTRUAL MARU SUIE} Yeah!

[@theponydalek7923]

That's implying it was good to begin with

[@selena0755]

This movie has so many cinema sins in it

[@2DMage]

WHAT A GENIUSES IDEA ASKING A TAXI DRIVER TO BRING THEM A PLACE WHERE THEY CAN CAN AND WITH NO ROADS AND NO MAPS..

[@magbuhagiar8304]

I will always remember that movie: I have been laughing from the beginning until the end !!

[@ZeroArmour]

Why did the Mayans never burn the plants out. It would be pretty easy to create a clearing between the temple & the jungle, then spray the temple with petrol. Yes, there's a risk of the fire spreading anyway, but it would be worth it to end the threat.

[@kolonarulez5222]

This seems like a movie I would've loved in 2006 when I was an edgy teen obsessed with horror movies.

[@Jarod-vg9wq]

“It really RUINS the story (Bada bam) I’m sorry” it’s ok bro it was called for.

[@JayMaverick]

Hahah I didn't remember it was so bad. Thanks for the review.

[@ChrissieBear]

Why didn't the "mayans" burn the plant down either!?

[@what9681]

"The Ruins" always felt to me like a ripoff of The Stephen King short story and Creepshow 2 segment "The Raft", it even ends in a very similar way.

[@what9681]

***** Yep, same plot, just in a different setting.

[@FabledHeroes3351]

7:50 gotta agree with you there why didn't they burn the fucking plants

[@LTamazil]

holy shit, that's where that brain worm of an "OH NOOOOOO!" came frome at 0:57 I have said that so many times and referenced it without thinking how could i?!

[@dashzilla9358]

So, the happening was made before the happening?

[@murciadoxial8056]

so... basically this is an spinoff of the fountain sequence where that spanish conqueror is turned into a plant when he finds the tree of life

[@THERealRibbitBartono]

4:57 what early video of yours is that? Best part of the review next to all the other stuff

[@crazyfun95]

Wow, Poison Ivy is shook!

[@AmaryInkawult]

The Mayans were assholes in this movie. They let them suffer through that hell. The kid didn't have to die. And their "salt the earth" routines could have been used as an advantage to burn the plants down to the root then keep then from growing. Fun fact, the movie had other endings planned but sadly they went with this one. The other endings were bullshit too, but slightly better than the "OH NO she had a plant in her" ending

[@in_vas_por8810]

I don't think you fully understood the story, or the ending. The plants are highly contagious/quick spreading. The plant is essentially trying to escape and spread throughout civilization(which it did in the end). The Mayans knew this. The Mayans have most likely tried everything to get rid of the plants within thousands of years(fire being one of the very first things they tried). Burning the plant isn't some genius idea. If anything is left of it(or it releases spores like mushrooms and many other plants), it can probably assimilate into the ground nearby and just move locations. Getting anywhere near it, or messing with it, is a stupid idea.

[@TheKML777]

So which Ashmore brother is in it?

[@scitechian]

Shawn. Or, if you prefer, "His name is Jake."

[@chadcastagana9181]

7:55 Why didnt these Mayans use fire to destroy these vines ages ago? Do they worship the Vine God? I believe in the book the killer vines are growing in & around a large mound and not an actual Mayan pyramid. On this one point the movie is better, because it gives a subtext for human sacrifice. That would explain why the Mayans did not kill all the protagonists when they had the chance. It would be even better still if there was a meteorite found at the bottom of that pyramid - implying an origin for this unearthly plant creature. The film's main weakness is that it relies to much on gore & mutilation and not on building suspense.

[@in_vas_por8810]

I know this is old, but many ancient "mounds" are also considered pyramids. Look it up, they are closely related.

[@1wolftank]

Do they ever explain why they don’t purge the plants with flamethrowers

[@GoodOldGamer]

A rare beared Phelan! And in mint condition too. 🤭

[@TevyaSmolka]

the concept itself is actually interesting the execution was really bad

[@geraldkenneth119]

My theory is the reason the plants didn’t just grab them was because they wanted to play with them

[@CandiCohen]

The only horror movie that my dad absolutely hated, called it trash, and gave it away for free.😅

[@manintheline5331]

This movie is genuinely horrifying especially the amputation scene

[@magnasupreme]

maybe I shouldn't of just ate before the leg scene

[@immortaltoaistisascamdonot4938]

Wait....didn't he say he couldn't feel his legs, how do they hurt NOW for the amputation

[@Uhohspaghettios5689]

What's the name of the classical piece he used in this episode?

[@alucardyoici]

+Dana Jamie hungarian dance no 5 it's in the end credits

[@Uhohspaghettios5689]

oh sorry thank you though

[@Rock.Nagasaki]

i remember seeing that movie

[@JustinJTime]

4:58 is that you as a kid, Phelan?

[@multitudeofidols]

How odd that the film has two people who tried to kill Hannibal Lecter and the same one was paralysed as well.

[@kobaltsteel6418]

Those flowers... I can't even look at 60% of this review because it's just that terrifying for me. Blasted botanophobia!

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oh god i remember this one