It’s super underrated. I loved RUINS — both the book and the movie adaptation. (I liked the little changes made to the movie version to keep book-readers on our toes, too.)
I adored those movie vinyls/storybook/read-alongs as a child in the late 70s/early 80s. We didn’t have a VCR until later in the 80s, and I remember experiencing a lot of those old Disney movies more through their vinyl counterparts than actually seeing the movies.
Most recently, one of the latest Nine Inch Nails videos.
But I grew up on gray, freezer-burned ground-beef!
I had one of these as a kid. (Because I am now old.)
I was drawn in by this movie, thinking it was going to be a lot more of a traditional horror movie. About halfway through, it was clear it was something else entirely. I had to sit with it a little while after it ended before realizing I was moved by it.
There is so much hate for this movie but I liked it.
I landed a decent job at the end of the summer and decided to celebrate with an impulse buy of a Nintendo Switch. I hadn’t really thought about getting one and didn’t realize there was still a scarcity of supply.
I’m so glad you’ve placed a spotlight on this movie. I feel like it’s one of those largely forgotten movies that NO ONE I know has seen. I haven’t seen it in too many years but I remember loving how it builds. And how intense it gets. And that devastating ending.
F-BOMBS on FX!!!
Saw her name and face and thought we’d lost her. Grew up in the 80s and love her work.
Idris is about the age that Roger Moore was when he took over the Bond role, and he made 8 of those things.
Heart failure at 39? I really wish there were more information here. Did he have a condition he was dealing with? These young deaths are devastating.