The Ritual (2017)

2017

94 mins

Directed by David Bruckner
74%
63%
Horror

Rafe Spall (Life of Pi) and Robert James-Collier (TV's Downton Abbey) are among a group of friends who find themselves being... More

Rafe Spall (Life of Pi) and Robert James-Collier (TV's Downton Abbey) are among a group of friends who find themselves being stalked in the woods in this British horror.

College friends Luke (Spall), Hutch (James-Collier), Phil (Arsher Ali) and Dom (Sam Troughton) decide to take a hiking trip in the Swedish wilderness to reminisce about old times. But the inexperienced hikers soon find themselves hopelessly lost and as night closes in, tempers start to fray and they take shelter in an abandoned shack. Inside they discover the macabre artefacts of some unknown ritual and, during the night, each of the group suffers vivid, terrifying nightmares. As their friendships begin to crack and old resentments surface they become increasingly desperate to escape the woods. But they are not alone. Someone, or something, malevolent is watching them, intent on making them face their deepest fears and ensuring they never leave.

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The Ritual (2017) | Ratings & Reviews

74_%94 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes® rating
63_%2,830 reviews
Audience score rating

"Surely the best Yank-directed horror movie about English blokes terrorized by monsters in Romania-posing-as-Sweden that you'll see this year."

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Variety

"Entertaining, engrossing and at times genuinely unnerving, Bruckner's bad trip is one for horror fans to relish."

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Total Film

"If it lacks the originality and sheer muscle of the best horror fare, this does offer an astute take on fragile thirty-something machismo."

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Time Out

"The Ritual is an efficient, well-made if programmatic Brit horror, with good effects and a big monstrous reveal intelligently withheld."

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The Guardian

"Starting off in Blair Witch country before detouring into The Wicker Man, the film impresses with the way it deftly weaves together different horror tropes to excellent effect."

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