Category: Horror
All Genres: Horror, Thriller
Release Year: 2008
Country: USA, Australia
Runtime: 93
Rating: 4.7 (0)
Languages: English, Maya, Spanish
Director: Carter Smith
Sound: Dolby Digital, SDDS, DTS
Taglines:
Terror has evolved.
Writing by: Scott B. Smith – (screenplay)
Scott B. Smith – (novel) (as Scott Smith)
Produced by: Gary Barber – executive producer
Chris Bender – producer
Roger Birnbaum – executive producer
Stuart Cornfeld – producer
Trish Hofmann – executive producer
Jeremy Kramer – producer
Ben Stiller – executive producer
Cast: Jonathan Tucker – Jeff
Jena Malone – Amy
Laura Ramsey – Stacy
Shawn Ashmore – Eric
Joe Anderson – Mathias
Sergio Calderón – Lead Mayan
Jesse Ramirez – Mayan Bowman
Balder Moreno – Mayan Horseman
Dimitri Baveas – Dimitri
Patricio Almeida Rodriguez – Taxi Driver
Mario Jurado – Mayan Archer
Music: Graeme Revell
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline: A group of friends whose leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the worse when they, along with a fellow tourist embark on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle, where something evil lives among the ruins.
Plot: While on vacation in a resort in Mexico, the Americans Jeff, his girlfriend Amy, her best friend Stacy and her boyfriend Eric befriend the German Mathias in the swimming pool. Mathias invites the group to visit the ruins of a Mayan temple with his Greek friend Dimitri in an archeological field where his brother Henrich and his girlfriend are camped eighteen kilometers far from the resort. They hire an old taxi and when they reach the spot, they are surrounded by Mayan villagers armed of revolver, rifle and bow-and-arrow that kill Dimitri and do not allow the group to leave the place. They climb a construction covered of creepers with red flowers, and remain under siege of the locals. When they hear a cell phone in the bottom of a well, Mathias decides to seek the apparatus using a rope that breaks and he has a serious accident breaking his back. Amy and Stacy go to the bottom of the mine to rescue Mathias and they find many corpses covered by the climbing plants; further, they realize that they had been lured by the plants that are vibrating with the sound of a cell phone. When they are attacked by the carnivorous creeping plants, they understand the reaction of the Mayan villagers.
Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Baby photos of the cast and crew are shown during the closing credits.
Goofs: We know about 6 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Revealing mistakes: On top of the ruins there is an opening with a rope in which people can lower others by turning a wheel. When one of the characters is going down into the ruins, the camera changes quickly between the person going down into the ruins and the characters lowering the rope. Even though they are lowering a person into the ruins, they are actually twisting the wheel the wrong way, which shows the rope moving up, as if they are taking someone out of the ruins.
Trivia: There are 1 entries in the trivia list – like these:
- SPOILER: Even though the novel and the screenplay were written by the same person, the deaths of the characters are switched around. In the film, Stacy cuts her knee and the plants start growing inside her. She ends up killing Eric and begs for the others to kill her. In the book, its Eric who cuts his knee, and he kills Mathias. In the film, Mathias breaks his back and later gets his legs cut off. In the novel, this happens to Pablo (who is called Dimitri in the film). In the film, Jeff is killed by the Mayans trying to save Amy so she can escape. In the novel, Jeff is killed by the Mayans trying to escape after Amy has been killed by the plants during the night. In the novel, Stacy is the last survivor. She commits suicide in front of the ruins to warn off others who might find the ruins. But the plants make her body disappear. In the novel, Amy is the first character to die. In the film, she is the only one who survives and, unlike any of the characters in the novel, she actually manages to escape.