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A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

So many things were wrong with this movie it's hard to know where to begin.First, the plot itself makes less than no sense. Basically this reporter chick decides she needs to cover the disappearance of an American backpacker in Poland because "no one else cares". OK, so that's stupid thing number one because, FYI, if you ever disappear in Poland, I can promise you the State Department and the Polish government are going to look for you. But no, Carmen the fearless investigative journalist, is convinced that the missing guy is one of a long line of tourist who have mysteriously disappeared in some obscure Polish village.So Carmen, super genius that she is, decides she's going to go check it out, even though her boss told her to drop it and assigned her to do a story about honeybees dying off in Oregon. Well,there's another super dumb plot point since the death of bee colonies actually is a real story, just not in the eyes of Carmen apparently.Next you're supposed to believe that Carmen, not only convinces an intern to accompany her to Poland and lie to their boss about it, but also tricks her photographer boyfriend into coming along without giving him a heads up about what she's doing. Of course, no one from Carmen's company figures out that she and the world's stupidest intern are hopping on planes to Poland, not Oregon. Yeah right, that's super believable...Naturally, about five minutes after they get to this obscure village things start going south. The boyfriend figures out he's been tricked by Carmen, whose master plan was to write such an amazing story about some random missing backpacker that her boss will forgive her for lying to him, bailing on her real assignment, and misusing company resources.And how does Carmen plan to bust this whole mystery wide open? Why by ignoring all the adults in the village in favor of pressing the first pre-teen girl she sees for info about what happened to the backpacker because that makes soo much sense! Lucky for Carmen, even though they are in some super rural village in Poland all the kid's magically speak enough English to communicate with her.Alright, so when everything starts to fall apart there's this whole thing with a perma-fog, a creepy statue in the fog that bleeds and curses people who look at it, as well as a bunch of religious dudes wandering around the village in full regalia looking menacing as they order everyone around. In addition to all that there's a shed in the middle of the forest that's actually an entrance to an underground mausoleum/shrine, a bunch of hackneyed religious symbolism, a whole lot of cheesy rituals, and the obligatory chase scenes in which the three Americans run around trying to escape the angry, seemingly backwards villagers.Basically, about half-way through this movie you're hoping everyone dies because you just want the whole thing to end. Anywho, to make a long, dumb, boring story somewhat shorter, the villagers are only killing people who get a look at the statue because it turns them into satanic monsters. So, as is so often the case, the evil villagers turn out to be the good guys, protecting the world from damnation one cursed tourist at a time. Though, honestly, even if she hadn't have been possessed by the devil, killing Carmen would have been a service to humanity.Equally as bad as the absurd and thoroughly unoriginal story line, was the dialog. I'm not sure how they finished filming this without someone screaming "Stop! No one talks like that!". Seriously, this movie had some of the most unnatural sounding dialog I've heard in a long time. For example, there was no way you were forgetting the characters' names because they repeated them in virtually every single line. Yep, nothing says "natural" like being alone with your girlfriend, but still starting each sentence with her name like she would forget who you were talking to if you didn't.Another major problem were the costume. To say they were cheesy really doesn't begin to do justice to the poor choices whoever dressed the actors made. Half the villagers looked as though they escaped from a Dungeons and Dragons convention, while the other half looked Amish.I sincerely cannot think of one charitable thing to say about this film. Personally, as a Polish American, I was appalled that they had to drag the country of my ancestors into this disasterpiece. This wasn't even bad enough to be funny, it was just bad all the way around.

i have no words....this is rated like jessabelle, but miles away from that....the story is a nice idea, but nothing new. i like very much the film "the ruins 2008" which is underrated, and think the idea after it is the same, but i like ruins much more. the only good actor in this film was ashmoreso....idea, maybe stolen....picture/camera looks cheap, bad acting, no thrill....so...sorry...i don't understand sometimes the ratings here...so here in this case again...like i write....the film is not total crap, but it is not fair how this is similar rated with better films.greetz from cologne & like always...sorry for the entlish ,-)

Trying to investigate a missing person's case, a reporter and her friends travel to Poland to follow up on their clues only to find the suspect's involvement in a deadly cult and are forced to fight them off to get away alive.Overall this one turned out to be quite an enjoyable if slightly flawed effort. One of the better aspects to this one is the rather impressive and enjoyable atmosphere throughout here, which makes for a lot of impressive moments within here. The initial walk-through of the group of the village is quite impressive as there's a large amount of creepy visuals that are rightly observed to be their traditional way of life in such a situation and no moralizing is done anyway which is a nice touch while also really getting this going for the big reveal here in the revelation of the fog cloud surrounding the tree-line that's quite eerie as well. Those later scenes in the fog-cloud are highly creepy as well with the obscured trees and thick fog providing the perfect blanket for the reveal of the statue which is quite scary and chilling as well as the ensuing marks to get away that generates some fine action in the woodland chase and eventual escape as well as the brawling with the cult members and finally the film's first rather impressive scene in the sacrificial room. These chilling scenes and the eventual escape, resulting in the finale's absolutely delirious amount of chases through the woods and into the house on the outskirts, the demonic possession that follows the utterly chilling tactic of the deformed demons in her mind and finally into the big confrontation with the group at the end which makes for a lot of good, creepy images and ideas strewn throughout this one. Along with the gory kills, these positives are enough to hold off the few minor flaws in this one. The biggest one being the first half spending way too much time on ensuring that the whole trip is set-up for them to be cut off from help, with the errant cover-story and secrecy surrounding it all just filling up time needlessly by hammering it home when it's already been established about that fact. Also, the fact that this continues a long, long trend of films in which the entirety of the events could've easily been avoided had something useful been passed along to the participants instead of simply kept secret does render this one with a mildly irritating factor, but otherwise this one was highly enjoyable.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Brief Nudity, violence-against-animals and children-in-jeopardy including an assumed violent kill.

The story had some mystery, good plot, and of course, the scare and chill you would want see from a horror movie. It certainly was not the kind of movie that just mindlessly rip and tear someone's inside. This was the kind of movie that made you curious about what is going on, about the origin of the evil that is plaguing the village. It certainly gave me the kind of scary atmosphere that enjoy from a horror movie.Unfortunately, the reason I didn't give a higher rating for this movie is because many scenes contains polish scripts which kind of makes you care less about what is currently going on in the story. But, don't worry. In the end, they made the entire story quite clear and made those dialogues feel less important to know.