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fourfour.typepad.com - 7/10/2008

Defending The Ruins

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Look deep into my hole... ...and you'll find my Top 5 reasons why The Ruins is one of the best horror films of the decade. Critics just don't understand. (Spoilers pop up like weeds below.) Reason 1: It defies the conventions it respects. For a film that has so few characters (five principles and some glorified extras) and so few locations (one, basically: a big hill), that ...

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