Carter Smith
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Copy themes from violent xenophobic travel thrillers such as Paradise Lost, Hostel or The Ruins.
Like the young people in the entertainingly gooey 2008 horror movie “The Ruins,” the group of college friends in “Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare” discover too late that their Mexican vacation has left them with a nasty infection.
The string of calamities that follows plays a lot like a less-intense, above-ground version of The Descent: tourists descending unwittingly into a character-testing hell.
A horrific, edge-of-your-seat experience in the same way that 2006's " The Descent " was, "The Ruins" is additionally effective for not overexplaining the unstoppable adversary the characters face.
After seeing the trailer and marketing for The Shallows, I was convinced the movie would turn out to be a bait-and-switch travel-horror flick in the same vein as The Ruins, Turistas, and even Hostel.
It’s been a staple of the horror genre as far back as An American Werewolf in London (1981), and more recently the formula was honed with the likes of Hostel (2005) and The Ruins (2008).
Even lazy horror fans will notice similarities in style and/or story to The Hills Have Eyes , The Blair Witch Project , and The Ruins .
(Turistas and The Ruins are two other examples.)
But though it has elements in common with every movie that ever sent a batch of comely youngsters into the wilderness (for starters: The Ruins, Wolf Creek, Wrong Turn), The Cabin in the Woods is not strictly speaking, a slasher flick.