This is a scenario that most horror film fans will likely find familiar: A group of city-dwelling friends trek into dank unfamiliar woods, motivated either by a need to party hearty (if the protagonists are under 25) or to reclaim bygone friendship (if they are over 25). During their trek, one member of their party becomes injured or stranded, and the rest of the party slowly begins to panic when they realize they are hopelessly lost. Eventually, a rogue mutant, family of cannibals, vengeful witch, or hungry forest-dwelling critter will beset our heroes, snacking on them one by one until a single hero survives to solve the mystery of the thing attacking them.
There are myriad good versions of this story, and an almost infinite number of bad versions of this story. David Bruckner's The Ritual, now playing on Netflix, is thankfully of the former. It is a film that languidly wrenches thrills from your brainstem, using skilled lighting and adept visual obfuscation to explore fear, grief, and the futility of malehood in equal measure. And while it does sometimes feel rote or expected (a result of its setup), The Ritual is a more patient, more soulful, and certainly more unsettling film than your average lost-in-the-woods thriller.
from IGN Reviews http://ift.tt/2EXC9hR
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