To answer why they didnt build a fence, in the alternate ending/book; the girl who got away wrecked the getaway car and the plant pulled her and the car into the jungle and while doing so, it was revealed the plants also covered all signs. Made the story even more depressing and dark.
He has big ‘I could totally land an airplane’ energy in the book. Just thinks he knows best when he’s actually green in even own field of work. It seriously fucks them constantly.
I mean, they have no way to fix the infection. No antibiotocs. The guy is dehydrated and starving so have no energy to keep up any level of immune responce. All they have is a bottle of alcohol, and a knife
I mean. To be fair hes got the right idea. Look at those wounds. Most of all kinds of tissue other than bone are gone. There's nothing to save. Even in a modern level 1 this would only be treated with bilat AKAs. with significant wound debridement, and left with a wound vac in place since primary closure would likely not be an option initially. Of course he should have known that he's not a surgeon and without a proper hospital attempting that procedure is likely to kill him faster while still doing absolutely nothing about the infection. So not improving quality of life or outcome. He was always going to die.
@@DDIAZ-we4dz I’m gonna go ahead and disagree here. I’ve seen ex-fixes correct much worse. But maybe you’re talking about the plants, but in any case with no X-rays can’t be definitive.
The problem with signs is that, while most people will abide by them, there are plenty of people that see “Keep Out” signs as a challenge or an indicator that there’s something good being kept hidden. I can recall hearing one instance of an underwater cave that had such a high body count that not only were the usual “there’s nothing worth your life in here” signs put up, but a steel grate was also installed to keep potential casualties out of the cave. What did authorities find when they checked on it later? The steel grate removed and a different sign put up that said “You can’t keep us out.”
reminds me of the story of 1500+ sheep jumping off a cliff, ofc the first ones that jumped just died but the ones that went after lived cause of all the cushioning. People and sheep mentality ya know 🤷♂. People itching for a story to tell only to be the ones told in said story.
@@gs4011The body chasm on Mount Everest comes to mind. Image freezing to death in a corpse lined pit just because you wanted to satisfy your ego. Nobody, not even your other bored rich friends, gives a shit about you summiting a damn mountain. It’s been done a thousand times already.
To be fair to the villagers, in the book they always try to cover the path back up and hide the traces. Everyone nearby also knows it's dangerous and even told them so. The group barely even found the path to the temple in the first place.
@@UmbraMan1 I like to think that they tried, but with how deep the cave system is the fire never goes deep enough to get it all. And if the plant is smart enough to mimic people it could be smart enough to cover the well so no oxygen gets in and the fire is smothered.
@joshhorn9164 even then there's a thing called "Gasoline" and hell fire bombs that can be dropped down into the temple. This movie is so bad xD characters are utterly stupid and not going to ask the locals about anything suspicious and such before even going there.
I hated Amy SO MUCH. She cheats on her boyfriend, SHE got the guide shot, SHE stood on the plants first and got them stood on the pyramid. She threw the plant on the boy and got him killed, and she escapes at the end while infected and probably spreads the plants everywhere
IF she goes to the hospital immediately she MIGHT be salvaged, but as dumb as she is I seriously doubt it. Knowing her temperament, she'd probably head directly for a cheeseburger and some strange...thereby spreading the vinerus everywhere.
The fence / sign deal was covered in the book, the plants will tear down or use their spores to influence the area. Also the locals regard it as kind of diety in which they allow sacrafices to hence the archilogists. Basically keep the plant diety happy and it won't come after them or have a reason to spread.
Ngl that voicemail advice may be the best advice I’ve ever heard from any of the “how to beat” channels. Could be useful in a lot of situations, like meeting a new date or going to foreign locations. Can always shoot a text to someone, but still, great advice.
I have a theory on why the villagers didnt just gun them all down right off the bat. Perhaps they make sure the vines have fresh human sacrifices every once in a while to prevent the vines from spreading further in search of food.
Bingo! I believe you hit the nail right on the head. There is a theory that the plants are the physical embodiment of a Mayan deity, who'll destroy the world unless it is provided with fresh sacrifices from time to time. That's why there are no boundary walls or signs. The villagers have intentionally spread word about the ruins, so that daredevils visit the place and sate the old God's hunger. They could sacrifice their own people, but why bother, if outsiders voluntarily step in to do it for them? This is a bit like the Cabin in the Woods remake. Sacrifice a few to save the rest of the world!
Those were good but the comedy trade off nowhere near worth it. This one is great because he has the comedy plus the original over strategizing that you guys care so much about
The worst thing is that if they were able to call for rescue, modern medicine and quarantine procedures would have probably been able to treat them (including the young boy of their own) and ensure the plants weren't able to spread. The jungle people assume that bc they don't have the resources to contain the plants and kill them nobody else does either.
The plant might as well be an alien you don't know anything about it why risk the planet to save a couple of people and the locals aren't stupid who knows how many generations have known about the plant maybe it's behind why so many pyramids and temples are abandoned
LOL! Once when we were camping in the mountains in NC, we met a Forest Service intern and asked him to stay for supper. He told us the main part of his job during the heaviest weeks of the tourist season was to just go about half a mile from the major trailhead at Cades Cove and turn the people back that weren't equipt to go any farther. No water, wearing sandals, etc. He needed to educate them that they weren't on the forest ride at Disney, and what to bring on a serious hike.
The movie is an adaptation of a fantasy book. In the original material it is implied that the plants are smart. The vines cover up danger signs and use screams, phone ringing and other sounds to lure in its prey. I guess the locals could be able to mimic people off the plants.
I want to see a movie made about when the Mayans first discovered the plants and the undoubtably epic war waged to keep them contained at that one site.
I just finished the book and was happy to see it was made into a movie, then beyond disappointed at all the changes, but then happy again seeing a "how to beat" video pop up. I implore anyone who remotely liked the movie to read the book instead!
I totally forgot about this movie until just now, I’m glad to see you cover it! I remember watching it on TV as a kid at my grandmas house as a sci-fi original. Scared the crap out of us 😂
I think she made it back to civilization, then died. What makes it scarier is that the plant lay dormant in her body until she was buried so that it was able to grow from there grave
I read that backstory of this is that the villagers believed the vine to be a representation of some sort of god so it's kind of a respectful tending rather than trying to get rid of it
5:08 Holy… I will actually keep this in mind for the future. Shows how empty-headed I am because I never in a million years would have even come up with this by accident.
100 meter open area of salt. Fence. Another 100 meter area of salt. With guards round the clock. Danger signs of every kind in every language. The main issue is if a bird randomly decided to touch those plants then everything is kinda doomed. So maybe try to find ways to kill it as soon as possible.
@@Usher2660 How big would have been or what the natives did during the Mayan period the plant? Like the temple looking newer and people maintain the temple. Then more POV's on the present locals on the know-how of the plant and more lore.
I have never read the book, but the moment I saw a depowered Iceman and the guy from 100 Girls leading the cast, I had a hunch they were all screwed! 🤷♂🤷♂🤷♂
This is one my guilty pleasure horrors. I see it as about 50% dumb as heck and 50% friggin awesome and those are good numbers when it comes to horror imo
At 33:41 you can actually see the vines still inside Stacy's hip. As messed up as she was hacking away at herself like that, she was right, they were still inside her.
Okay, I am a huge nerd, and I loved this movie so, I read the book it was based on. And in the book it's inferred that the local Mayans are essentially sacrificing them to the plants. They're a super natural entity in the book.
I would love one of those videos where a dummy points to information in thought bubbles, with goofy, incredibly cheerful music. Like "how to prepare for being in a horror movie? 1. Is your phone charged? 2. Are you going down a dark alley alone? 3. Have you besmirched an old gypsy woman who cursed you? 4. Did an Alien monster just board your vessel?"
Nothing a couple of cans of gasoline and a match can’t fix. But seriously though I remember watching this movie out of boredom and was like “DAAAMN” This film was bleak indeed. Nightmare scenario.
Fire Is not always a good solution because many plants have developed some kinda panic preservation mechanism to ensure species survival and due to plants being filled with water fire doesn't work as fast as you want it to causing the problem to become worse.
Some plants use fire to spread.... still there are plenty of alternatives im surprised they didn't call th US im pretty sure we have some liters of Agent Orange in storage somewhere
@@Fireheart310 And there's no way in hell that you could burn it all without getting infected. It goes all the way inside the temple. So is it even worth the risk to get that close when you have a method that can at least keep it contained with minimal risk.
@@thesovietkevin7275 For starters, exactly why the villagers don't tell the government about the temple. Either they'll be killed to keep it a secret so that it can be weaponized, or because the area will get nuked and they'll be killed. The other thing that has to be remembered is how this movie ended. All it takes is one idiot getting away spreading it to a new area to render the nuke pointless.
As far as i recall, the plants have waay too much reach for me to be confortable with a flamethrower, i'd say molotov cocktails are a bit more safe, if not having the army involved
@@SnlDrako huh, yeah sounds like really good range, more than enough to torch it from the other side of the quarentine zone, at least 10 m looks enough to safely do it
If you start out that way, the plant could release spores. First, use corrosive chemicals to burn the plants away, then bombard the temple with radiation to eliminate the spores.
Changing your voicemail before going into the jungle is the biggest Armchair survivalist trick ive ever heard. Ive been in Peru, Ecuador and Columiban jungle and if you need to be saved by your voicemail youre already long past dead.
Doesn't seem that bad to me. If I'm missing and my family or friends call to check on me, it might be useful to have your location recorded in your voicemail.
You can survive for weeks without proper food as long as you can find water especially if it's not too cold and you don't get malaria or something. If nobody hears from you for a few days then your friends and family are going to be worried and contact the police. Search and rescue teams absolutely have a small but not insignificant chance of finding you within a week or so. Especially if you leave a voicemail message that gives them a good starting point and likely direction to search.
Oh hey, I watched this movie. And forgot about it completely until just now (I remember watching couple non-descript horror/thrillers one night, that's it). Not exactly my idea of a night well spent, but I was with 3 others so...🤷♂
I remember only one thing from this movie and that was the plants mocking one of their voices to lure another one down and that kind of shit scares the hell out of me like in annihilation
Certainly they could have just set the vines on fire, the people guarding the vines can't keep it contained forever so they could at least try to destroy it
Im pretty sure that may have already been tried. And besides, burning EVERY BIT of those vines to ash would be a very difficult if not impossible feat to accomplish without getting too close to them.
As far as i recall, they did try it, but the vines are somewhat resistant to it, and smarter than they look, the best they could do was to have an area with coarse dirt so it doesn't spread and the vines slowly starve, only slowed down by tourists meddling in
@@montypython5521 Where were they gonna get a flamethrower? And besides, not even a flamethrower would have enough fuel to burn EVERY bit of those in and around the pyramid.
As someone who loved the original The Ruins book, the movie fails so badly at the story that it's worth a read just to see all the differences. The most major of them though? The order in which literally every single character is killed lol. It was (and still is) one of my favorite books, so much so that I've read it 3 times, and I'm not even a big fan of reading books.
I'd be a terrible character in a horror movie. If I'm going on an excursion and I know of two other parties that have investigated the same place, and when I get dropped off, I see two abandoned vehicles that are in a condition as if their owners just never made it back... I'm getting back in the cab. Shortest movie ever.
In the book, the vines covered the signs they were putting in but for some reason the salt circles made them slow down. I hate Western media for wanting happy endings cause in the book everyone got deleted and the vines spread into Amy's grave.
That guy's not in medical school not only would basically first aid training tell you not to move someone with a severe back leg or head injury unless you absolutely have too but it also tells you that the chance of surviving an amputation is much lower than an unknown infection.
I don't know why anyone would go anywhere close to the ruins in this movie. The ground around it is perfectly clear in the middle of a rain forest. That screams ow hell No to me .
As a nurse, I was cringing so hard when they moved Mathias after he fell. Like, the fact that he fell so far and hard onto his back and was the unable to move OR FEEL his legs would let literally anybody know his back was broken. But to MOVE HIM. C'mon. And Amy and Jeff are both pre-med. Again, this is something anyone with more than half a brain would know (DON'T move someone with a back, neck or head injury) but they have no excuse not to know that. And it's not like there's a REASON to move him. Well, there is, with the plants down there, but they don't know that. He's in the shade etc, and they can use the rope to lower water down to him.
Even ignoring Stacy's new wounds potentially getting infected, the reason the vines got INTO her was because she cut her leg. So why would you wanna cut several new wounds into her body? You're just creating entry points. And her clothes are COVERED in gowing spores from the plants.
The book is sooo FN good. I read the book and then the movie was coming out. And I should have known the movie wouldn't be close to as good as the book.
I can't be alone with thinking that our group in this loverly situation, are as depressingly/irritatingly as useless with not using their brains to the fullest capacity, as the Army folks in "The Hills Have Eyes 2?" I can't believe they folded up their home boy like that? When Mr Nerd said "Don't be alarmed by those literal "snap, crack, and pop, sounds.....I freaking fell out my chair because I was thinking "Y'all are fcked UP!!!"
What I don't understand is, of the locals didn't want this plant getting out of the secured area, when they cover the entire thing in salt. Not just the grounds around the pyramid, but what about the actual steps, and even pouring salt inside of the pyramid.
"Drop me down the hole and ill do my best to land on my head" had me dying😂😂
lmfao same I had to pause it
To answer why they didnt build a fence, in the alternate ending/book; the girl who got away wrecked the getaway car and the plant pulled her and the car into the jungle and while doing so, it was revealed the plants also covered all signs. Made the story even more depressing and dark.
But that means the plants already escaped the area and therefore made the whole thing pointless.
I think that was her point
That would be an incredibly happy ending because the wretched person you'd want to die actually dies instead of being the sole stupid/evil survivor.
@teache1210 exactly if they've spread that far already wouldn't the locals know since they were clearly aware the temple already
They didn't build a fence cause they actually wanted to trap/kill people from time to time in the name of greater good
As someone in medical school, Jeff going straight to amputation for an infection that literally just started is wild.
Random patient: I have a splinter in my thumb
Jeff: (grabs hacksaw) bring him here I'll fix it
He has big ‘I could totally land an airplane’ energy in the book. Just thinks he knows best when he’s actually green in even own field of work. It seriously fucks them constantly.
I mean, they have no way to fix the infection. No antibiotocs. The guy is dehydrated and starving so have no energy to keep up any level of immune responce.
All they have is a bottle of alcohol, and a knife
I mean. To be fair hes got the right idea. Look at those wounds. Most of all kinds of tissue other than bone are gone. There's nothing to save. Even in a modern level 1 this would only be treated with bilat AKAs. with significant wound debridement, and left with a wound vac in place since primary closure would likely not be an option initially.
Of course he should have known that he's not a surgeon and without a proper hospital attempting that procedure is likely to kill him faster while still doing absolutely nothing about the infection. So not improving quality of life or outcome. He was always going to die.
@@DDIAZ-we4dz I’m gonna go ahead and disagree here. I’ve seen ex-fixes correct much worse. But maybe you’re talking about the plants, but in any case with no X-rays can’t be definitive.
The problem with signs is that, while most people will abide by them, there are plenty of people that see “Keep Out” signs as a challenge or an indicator that there’s something good being kept hidden.
I can recall hearing one instance of an underwater cave that had such a high body count that not only were the usual “there’s nothing worth your life in here” signs put up, but a steel grate was also installed to keep potential casualties out of the cave. What did authorities find when they checked on it later? The steel grate removed and a different sign put up that said “You can’t keep us out.”
reminds me of the story of 1500+ sheep jumping off a cliff, ofc the first ones that jumped just died but the ones that went after lived cause of all the cushioning. People and sheep mentality ya know 🤷♂. People itching for a story to tell only to be the ones told in said story.
@@streamofthesky Yep pretty much
That is just the Darwin award doing it's thing. Some people are just determined to die in a stupid and avoidable way.
It's truly amazing how some people just crave a worthless death.
@@gs4011The body chasm on Mount Everest comes to mind. Image freezing to death in a corpse lined pit just because you wanted to satisfy your ego. Nobody, not even your other bored rich friends, gives a shit about you summiting a damn mountain. It’s been done a thousand times already.
how to beat the Evil Plants in the The Ruins... stay in the all inclusive tourist trap until its time to depart.
Easy Peezy
WHAT would yew dew
Pro tip: Don’t be stupid tourist
@@MrDoverfield Pro tio: dont have an amy
@@jdogzerosilverblade299 Brought an Aimeee instead.
To be fair to the villagers, in the book they always try to cover the path back up and hide the traces. Everyone nearby also knows it's dangerous and even told them so. The group barely even found the path to the temple in the first place.
What's the book called
Too stupid to attempt burning the plants though
@@UmbraMan1 I like to think that they tried, but with how deep the cave system is the fire never goes deep enough to get it all. And if the plant is smart enough to mimic people it could be smart enough to cover the well so no oxygen gets in and the fire is smothered.
In the book I believe it also reviled that the plant actually covers signs as well so putting up warning signs didn't work in the past.
@joshhorn9164 even then there's a thing called "Gasoline" and hell fire bombs that can be dropped down into the temple.
This movie is so bad xD characters are utterly stupid and not going to ask the locals about anything suspicious and such before even going there.
I hated Amy SO MUCH. She cheats on her boyfriend, SHE got the guide shot, SHE stood on the plants first and got them stood on the pyramid. She threw the plant on the boy and got him killed, and she escapes at the end while infected and probably spreads the plants everywhere
IF she goes to the hospital immediately she MIGHT be salvaged, but as dumb as she is I seriously doubt it. Knowing her temperament, she'd probably head directly for a cheeseburger and some strange...thereby spreading the vinerus everywhere.
About the boy. If I knew that the Mayans are scared of the plant, I'd be cattapulting vines out from the ruin.
in the book she dies first. And she didn't guide the shot or throw the plant at any boy. Nothing similar happened.
@@biljam972 i thought she was pulled into the jungle at the end of the book by the vines
@@A_Stereotypical_Heretic no, that was Stacy. Amy was killed first, I think along with Mathias. Whines chocked her to death.
The fence / sign deal was covered in the book, the plants will tear down or use their spores to influence the area. Also the locals regard it as kind of diety in which they allow sacrafices to hence the archilogists. Basically keep the plant diety happy and it won't come after them or have a reason to spread.
Is anyone else here part of the "Amy is the absolute worst" club from Roanoke Gaming 😂😂😂
🤤
Here! We have to listen to Papa Roanoke: stay strapped or get clapped.
Yep 😂
Why yes
Yes
Ngl that voicemail advice may be the best advice I’ve ever heard from any of the “how to beat” channels. Could be useful in a lot of situations, like meeting a new date or going to foreign locations. Can always shoot a text to someone, but still, great advice.
Its wild that i JUST watched the video on Roanoke Gaming's channel about this movie right before this uploaded
Amy's the worst!
@@SuperSwordman1Amy from WhatCulture Horror?
@@SuperSwordman1the absolute worst, basically an anglerfish with legs
An anglerfish with legs that triggers prion disease
Amy hate 4 life
“That’s just the sound of healing.” 😂
I have a theory on why the villagers didnt just gun them all down right off the bat. Perhaps they make sure the vines have fresh human sacrifices every once in a while to prevent the vines from spreading further in search of food.
Bingo! I believe you hit the nail right on the head. There is a theory that the plants are the physical embodiment of a Mayan deity, who'll destroy the world unless it is provided with fresh sacrifices from time to time. That's why there are no boundary walls or signs. The villagers have intentionally spread word about the ruins, so that daredevils visit the place and sate the old God's hunger. They could sacrifice their own people, but why bother, if outsiders voluntarily step in to do it for them? This is a bit like the Cabin in the Woods remake. Sacrifice a few to save the rest of the world!
Nah
That makes a lot of sense. The animal (plant I guess) wouldn't leave the area if it always has some annual source of prey. Makes sense.
Yeah, that was my theory too.
Yeah
lol, when dudes vertebrae crunched when they lifted dude up.....oof
This episode belongs among the greatest of How to Beats. It brings me back to How to Beat the Cube and The Thing
Same
Those were good but the comedy trade off nowhere near worth it. This one is great because he has the comedy plus the original over strategizing that you guys care so much about
Now I need to watch these lol
I might be petty here, but if i survived this, i would come back with a tanker's worth of salt to purge this plant.
Ngl I bet the Mayans would like the threat being erraticated
@@jkbutterfly3142 Actually. no. They worship it as the living embodiment of an old God.
Napalm
@@krishanubanerjee6955Fine, they go too
I've been waiting for you to do this movie for a long time. Thank you so much
The worst thing is that if they were able to call for rescue, modern medicine and quarantine procedures would have probably been able to treat them (including the young boy of their own) and ensure the plants weren't able to spread. The jungle people assume that bc they don't have the resources to contain the plants and kill them nobody else does either.
That’s a good point. I wonder if there’s any way to make weed killer edible
That's a lot to gamble on a probably.
They'd all be murked if that was the case, just like in the cabin
It would be a stretch. But I would hope that it was possible.
The plant might as well be an alien you don't know anything about it why risk the planet to save a couple of people and the locals aren't stupid who knows how many generations have known about the plant maybe it's behind why so many pyramids and temples are abandoned
LOL! Once when we were camping in the mountains in NC, we met a Forest Service intern and asked him to stay for supper. He told us the main part of his job during the heaviest weeks of the tourist season was to just go about half a mile from the major trailhead at Cades Cove and turn the people back that weren't equipt to go any farther. No water, wearing sandals, etc.
He needed to educate them that they weren't on the forest ride at Disney, and what to bring on a serious hike.
The movie is an adaptation of a fantasy book. In the original material it is implied that the plants are smart. The vines cover up danger signs and use screams, phone ringing and other sounds to lure in its prey. I guess the locals could be able to mimic people off the plants.
I want to see a movie made about when the Mayans first discovered the plants and the undoubtably epic war waged to keep them contained at that one site.
I just listened to this audiobook at work and the filmmakers changed so many things that don't really make sense to me.
Really?
What did they change
@B.O.Xproject a lot of the change was just things happening to different characters. Like Eric was the one carving himself up, not Sarah. Etc.
@@slam5798 ah interesting
Now I kinda wanna look into it
@B.O.Xproject the book is really good and a lot more graphic in some ways. I highly recommend it.
@@slam5798 Is the book also called he ruin?
I just finished the book and was happy to see it was made into a movie, then beyond disappointed at all the changes, but then happy again seeing a "how to beat" video pop up. I implore anyone who remotely liked the movie to read the book instead!
I got the movie 8 years ago. Never new there was a book.
I totally forgot about this movie until just now, I’m glad to see you cover it! I remember watching it on TV as a kid at my grandmas house as a sci-fi original. Scared the crap out of us 😂
You make me feel very old
😂😂I only clicked on this video because the pyramid did remind me of movie scene I saw when I was younger
The Egg Drop Challenge, that's a creatively hilarious way to put it!
I remember an end scene (possibly deleted) the last time I watched, that showed her grave with the plant starting to grow out of it.
I think she made it back to civilization, then died. What makes it scarier is that the plant lay dormant in her body until she was buried so that it was able to grow from there grave
@@onomstarr No way the plant would survive if she was embalmed.
@@swimmingmide Not everyone gets embalmed though.
@@scarletamazon3455 The vast majority do, especially if you are shipping a body any significant distance. Like to a differnt country.
@@swimmingmide Found the American lol
The brilliance of "weed wack-a-mole" cannot be overstated.
I read that backstory of this is that the villagers believed the vine to be a representation of some sort of god so it's kind of a respectful tending rather than trying to get rid of it
Remember what Papa Roanoke told you: DON‘T. BE. AN. AMY!
She really is the absolute worst!!! 😂
5:08 Holy… I will actually keep this in mind for the future. Shows how empty-headed I am because I never in a million years would have even come up with this by accident.
This movie needs a sequel.
100 meter open area of salt. Fence. Another 100 meter area of salt. With guards round the clock. Danger signs of every kind in every language.
The main issue is if a bird randomly decided to touch those plants then everything is kinda doomed. So maybe try to find ways to kill it as soon as possible.
@ah_dan6572 If the plants cover the signs up from the temple, how are they not free yet?
@@Usher2660 How big would have been or what the natives did during the Mayan period the plant? Like the temple looking newer and people maintain the temple. Then more POV's on the present locals on the know-how of the plant and more lore.
I have never read the book, but the moment I saw a depowered Iceman and the guy from 100 Girls leading the cast, I had a hunch they were all screwed! 🤷♂🤷♂🤷♂
This is one my guilty pleasure horrors. I see it as about 50% dumb as heck and 50% friggin awesome and those are good numbers when it comes to horror imo
At 33:41 you can actually see the vines still inside Stacy's hip. As messed up as she was hacking away at herself like that, she was right, they were still inside her.
I remember watching this on the SciFi channel backed when they would regularly show random horror movies.
Same me too.
I forgot all about this movie! It freaked me out so bad. Kinda surprised it wasn't a bigger deal. Good movie!
Best. Poison Ivy. Origin. Ever.
Okay, I am a huge nerd, and I loved this movie so, I read the book it was based on. And in the book it's inferred that the local Mayans are essentially sacrificing them to the plants. They're a super natural entity in the book.
Love your videos keep up the good work 👍
Love how they keep all taking a nap at the same time
Read the thumbnail as "How to beat //The Runs//" my first glance, and I actually thought someone finally did a realistic horror film
I had to wait one year to watch your take on this. That time finally arrived 😊
“Throw me to get down the goddamn hole again, and I do my best to land on my head.” 😂😂
I lauughed so hard I woke my family up crunching is the sound of healing lololol
I truely believe clips from your videos would be hits as shorts/tik toks. Love your content keep it up!
I would love one of those videos where a dummy points to information in thought bubbles, with goofy, incredibly cheerful music. Like "how to prepare for being in a horror movie? 1. Is your phone charged? 2. Are you going down a dark alley alone? 3. Have you besmirched an old gypsy woman who cursed you? 4. Did an Alien monster just board your vessel?"
That's just the sound of healing bro I'm losing it lol
Nerd is my favourite TH-camr!
Me too!! There were other "how to beat" pages, but they havr mostly turned into recap videos.
Nothing a couple of cans of gasoline and a match can’t fix. But seriously though I remember watching this movie out of boredom and was like “DAAAMN” This film was bleak indeed. Nightmare scenario.
Fire Is not always a good solution because many plants have developed some kinda panic preservation mechanism to ensure species survival and due to plants being filled with water fire doesn't work as fast as you want it to causing the problem to become worse.
Some plants use fire to spread.... still there are plenty of alternatives im surprised they didn't call th US im pretty sure we have some liters of Agent Orange in storage somewhere
@@Fireheart310 And there's no way in hell that you could burn it all without getting infected. It goes all the way inside the temple. So is it even worth the risk to get that close when you have a method that can at least keep it contained with minimal risk.
thats why nukes exist
@@thesovietkevin7275 For starters, exactly why the villagers don't tell the government about the temple. Either they'll be killed to keep it a secret so that it can be weaponized, or because the area will get nuked and they'll be killed.
The other thing that has to be remembered is how this movie ended. All it takes is one idiot getting away spreading it to a new area to render the nuke pointless.
This movie legitimately horrified me. Laying paralyzed while everyone around you dies and you lay in a cave
dunno about this one, a flamethrower seems like it'd make it a straightforward easy case
Good idea! Im sure these backwoods hillbillies living in the middle of the mexican jungle can just go to "flamethrowers-R-us" and pick one up!
As far as i recall, the plants have waay too much reach for me to be confortable with a flamethrower, i'd say molotov cocktails are a bit more safe, if not having the army involved
@@SnlDrako huh, yeah sounds like really good range, more than enough to torch it from the other side of the quarentine zone, at least 10 m looks enough to safely do it
If you start out that way, the plant could release spores. First, use corrosive chemicals to burn the plants away, then bombard the temple with radiation to eliminate the spores.
@@SnlDrako Given the sheer number, I'd chalk it up to plot holes.
Before traveling to an international trip bring a satellite phone with battery bank. Also, do not investigate and or search for people without police.
Man, I remember watching this, and finding out the ringing twist. Crazy movie.
If only they had Plant ahead....
Get. Out. 😂😂😂😂😂
Don't be a creep my friend XD
Now we gots ourselves a chupacabra with an automatic weopan and now everyone realizes the situation we’re in! Nerd explains post apocalyptic events.
I hope they eventually do 2020 Greenland. It’s a super fun meteor escape!
The Gerard Butler movie?
Excellent video
Easy way to survive murdering plant:
- hey wanna go to undiscovered piramid shrine thing in south america?
-NO!!!
It's in Mexico aka North America
Youd think if a bunch of people got guns, they could have gotten a flamethrower or something
Hell, just get a supersoaker with gas
They don't burn it probably for the same reason you're not supposed to burn poison ivy
Changing your voicemail before going into the jungle is the biggest Armchair survivalist trick ive ever heard. Ive been in Peru, Ecuador and Columiban jungle and if you need to be saved by your voicemail youre already long past dead.
Doesn't seem that bad to me. If I'm missing and my family or friends call to check on me, it might be useful to have your location recorded in your voicemail.
You can survive for weeks without proper food as long as you can find water especially if it's not too cold and you don't get malaria or something.
If nobody hears from you for a few days then your friends and family are going to be worried and contact the police.
Search and rescue teams absolutely have a small but not insignificant chance of finding you within a week or so.
Especially if you leave a voicemail message that gives them a good starting point and likely direction to search.
Oh hey, I watched this movie. And forgot about it completely until just now (I remember watching couple non-descript horror/thrillers one night, that's it). Not exactly my idea of a night well spent, but I was with 3 others so...🤷♂
The voicemail thing is so smart
....did we do this before? i feel like we've been here before
I remember only one thing from this movie and that was the plants mocking one of their voices to lure another one down and that kind of shit scares the hell out of me like in annihilation
Undertale fans reading the title: 😳
He had me a lil confused by that title at first glance
Never played Undertale. Is it the game with skull head guy with the music megalomania?
@@TheDarkLink7 Yeah that’s the one
*Hears evil plant laughing in the background*
@seanmckenzie9843 been meaning to play it. That and Mother.
Missed Opportunity on saying "The Grass isn't Always Greener on the Other Side".
Really would like to see what a sequel to this movie would look like
Certainly they could have just set the vines on fire, the people guarding the vines can't keep it contained forever so they could at least try to destroy it
@@morgancrow6337 doesn't matter. Take the risk. Try to survive.
Im pretty sure that may have already been tried. And besides, burning EVERY BIT of those vines to ash would be a very difficult if not impossible feat to accomplish without getting too close to them.
As far as i recall, they did try it, but the vines are somewhat resistant to it, and smarter than they look, the best they could do was to have an area with coarse dirt so it doesn't spread and the vines slowly starve, only slowed down by tourists meddling in
@@mistasofly Flame throwers have plenty of reach
@@montypython5521 Where were they gonna get a flamethrower? And besides, not even a flamethrower would have enough fuel to burn EVERY bit of those in and around the pyramid.
Loved this movie. It's under-rated
pls don't change narrator like some other channels....
Yea I don't like the change of the narrator
Agreed
Who changed narrator?
As someone who loved the original The Ruins book, the movie fails so badly at the story that it's worth a read just to see all the differences. The most major of them though? The order in which literally every single character is killed lol. It was (and still is) one of my favorite books, so much so that I've read it 3 times, and I'm not even a big fan of reading books.
I read this book before the movie came out and could only picture Eric as Matthew Lillard.
They should’ve all started throwing plants at the guards so they would “indirectly” kill off everyone
I was waiting for him to lose his patience with Amy and her bs 😂😂
I'd be a terrible character in a horror movie. If I'm going on an excursion and I know of two other parties that have investigated the same place, and when I get dropped off, I see two abandoned vehicles that are in a condition as if their owners just never made it back... I'm getting back in the cab. Shortest movie ever.
Nice video.
Vines that eats you outside or *inside* . No matter what.
How to survive: alert the proper authorities upon hearing random dude claiming his bro is missing. Don't get dragged in to it. The end.
Ah yes, Amy, Roanoke Gaming's most hated nemesis XD
@12:00 phone with no reception in a deep Concrete pit gets a call?
Plant can mimic sounds, it was making the noise.
This movie changed my life, saw it when I was 8yo and got a phobia of plants and flowers
I remember reading the book when I was younger.
It was a bit creepy
Me too! It was so hopeless. I remember feeling very unnerved after finishing it
In the book, the vines covered the signs they were putting in but for some reason the salt circles made them slow down. I hate Western media for wanting happy endings cause in the book everyone got deleted and the vines spread into Amy's grave.
YES, this movie is insane
Nobody wins when Amy's the one that got away.
Of course the worst girl survives.
That guy's not in medical school not only would basically first aid training tell you not to move someone with a severe back leg or head injury unless you absolutely have too but it also tells you that the chance of surviving an amputation is much lower than an unknown infection.
I don't know why anyone would go anywhere close to the ruins in this movie. The ground around it is perfectly clear in the middle of a rain forest. That screams ow hell No to me .
Gawd dayum Amy!
Yup and that's why We hate her.
As a nurse, I was cringing so hard when they moved Mathias after he fell. Like, the fact that he fell so far and hard onto his back and was the unable to move OR FEEL his legs would let literally anybody know his back was broken. But to MOVE HIM. C'mon. And Amy and Jeff are both pre-med. Again, this is something anyone with more than half a brain would know (DON'T move someone with a back, neck or head injury) but they have no excuse not to know that. And it's not like there's a REASON to move him. Well, there is, with the plants down there, but they don't know that. He's in the shade etc, and they can use the rope to lower water down to him.
Man you should see the spite for the surviving character.
Even ignoring Stacy's new wounds potentially getting infected, the reason the vines got INTO her was because she cut her leg. So why would you wanna cut several new wounds into her body? You're just creating entry points. And her clothes are COVERED in gowing spores from the plants.
I totally thought this said “How To Beat The Runs.”
HES BACK!!!!!!!
The book is sooo FN good. I read the book and then the movie was coming out. And I should have known the movie wouldn't be close to as good as the book.
This takes "yo man, this weed is killer" to a whole new level.
that blonde guy is the superstar of 'weather movies' lol. he played a guy stuck in snow in frozen and now a dude stuck in the desert lmao
Looking back at this movie I realize that it 100 percent traumatized me
I can't be alone with thinking that our group in this loverly situation, are as depressingly/irritatingly as useless with not using their brains to the fullest capacity, as the Army folks in "The Hills Have Eyes 2?" I can't believe they folded up their home boy like that? When Mr Nerd said "Don't be alarmed by those literal "snap, crack, and pop, sounds.....I freaking fell out my chair because I was thinking "Y'all are fcked UP!!!"
What I don't understand is, of the locals didn't want this plant getting out of the secured area, when they cover the entire thing in salt. Not just the grounds around the pyramid, but what about the actual steps, and even pouring salt inside of the pyramid.
watching this video made my skin itch