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Originally Posted by SilverSurfer  Turistas (2006) or give it's UK title of Paradise Lost |
Not so long ago, I confused
Paradise Lost with
The Ruins in a conversation on here with someone. This is not entirely unsurprising because it is a case of two films released two years apart with two word titles in which Westerners go to a South American country and bad things happen to them!
Due to that misunderstanding, I re-watched both, buying
The Ruins on Blu-ray, and thoroughly enjoying both. I think I liked the 2008 film the most, simply because the horror is slightly more grotesque (people pulling vines out of their skin and a wonderfully realistic broken leg) and, aside from the broken leg incident and what follows, they stumbled across their fate by accident rather than antagonising those around them through gross cultural insensitivity. They are films where they have a lot going for them, whether it's the direction, the engrossing story with realistic dialogue or the good ensemble casts and, if you haven't seen either of them, they are both well watching.