I've been on the hunt for a good horror flick recently. One with more than just pure gore, I'd like old-fashioned suspense, a true scare and believable story lines. Then I rented "The Ruins". It started out as the usual plot line, moronic Americans trying to buy their way through foreign countries to roam and pillage as they like. Soon things go wrong and people start dying. From obvious directing mistakes in the first 15 minutes of the movie, to lame acting to hysterical special effects, this falls into the pit of another bad horror flick. There's one point in the movie when the characters think they hear a cell phone. So, of course, being smart horror movie characters, they go deeper into the ruins that have killed everyone else so far. Soon they find that in fact there is no cell phone and the vines are "singing" the cell phone tune. I started laughing, expecting the vines to break out into a chorus of "It's a Small World". The ending is predictable and though it tried to be spooky, it ended up being funny. Don't bother with this one!!