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| | runtime = 94 minutes | | runtime = 94 minutes | ||
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| '''''The Ritual''''' is a 2017 British ] directed by ], written by Joe Barton, and starring ], ], ], and ].<ref>{{cite web|title='The Ritual' Review: David Bruckner Shows Promise in Familiar Horror Tale {{!}} TIFF 2017|url=http://collider.com/the-ritual-review-david-bruckner/|website=Collider|date=10 September 2017}}</ref> | |||
| The film is based on the 2011 novel ] by ]. | |||
| '''''The Ritual''''' is a 2017 British ] ] ] film directed by ] and written by ]. Based on the 2011 ] by ], the film stars ], ], ], and ] as four friends on a ] through a Swedish ], where they encounter an ancient evil presence. | |||
| ⚫ | == Plot == | ||
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| Five old friends from university—Phil, Dom, Hutch, Luke, and Rob—meet over drinks at a pub, and discuss plans for a group trip to catch up with one another. Rob suggests hiking in Sweden but is quickly shot down by the others. Afterward, Luke and Rob enter a shop to purchase a bottle of vodka and interrupt a robbery in progress. Two armed robbers emerge from the back room, and Luke hides behind a shelf at the end of the aisle, leaving Rob frozen in fear. The thieves antagonise Rob, demanding his wallet, watch, and wedding ring. Rob parts with the first two but refuses to give them his ring. Luke, still hidden, flips the bottle in his hand and prepares to intervene. However, he is too slow to act, and Rob is bludgeoned to death. | |||
| Following its world premiere at the ] on 8 September, ''The Ritual'' was released by ] in the United Kingdom on 13 October. | |||
| Six months after his death, to honour Rob's wish, the four embark on a hiking trip along the '']'', or King's Trail, in ] in northern Sweden. When Dom loses his footing and injures his knee, impairing his ability to walk, Hutch consults the map and decides that an alternative route through a forest off of the trail will take them half the time. Upon entering the forest, the group encounters strange phenomena, including a gutted elk hanging from the tree branches and strange symbols carved on the trees. | |||
| ⚫ | == Plot == | ||
| As night falls, a torrential rainstorm soaks the men. While looking for shelter, they come upon an abandoned cabin and decide to break in and stay overnight. Inside the cabin, they find necklaces hanging from the walls bearing symbols similar to those carved in the trees. While exploring the first floor of the cabin, Phil discovers a wooden statuette of a decapitated human torso with antlers for hands. | |||
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| In a pub, five friends—Phil, Dom, Hutch, Luke, and Rob—discuss plans for a holiday. Rob suggests hiking in ] but gets rebuffed. Afterward, Luke and Rob leave to purchase alcohol but get involved in a robbery which soon turns violent. While Luke hides, the robbers harass and eventually kill Rob. | |||
| Six months later, the remaining four start a hiking trip along the ] in northern Sweden in memory of Rob. After Dom injures his knee, Hutch suggests cutting through the forest rather than following the marked trail. Luke is against it but Dom insists that if there's a shortcut, they should use it. Upon entering the forest, the group comes across a gutted and hanged ], and mysterious symbols carved in the trees. | |||
| During the night, the four are plagued by nightmares. Upon waking the next morning, Luke finds that he has sustained a set of strange puncture wounds on his chest. The group finds Phil in the attic, naked and kneeling in prayer in front of the effigy. The group leaves the cabin to continue their travels deeper into the woods, trying to find a way out. | |||
| At night, a ]storm forces them to take shelter in an abandoned cabin. They find necklaces bearing similar symbols and an ] of a decapitated human torso made of twigs, with antlers for hands. During the night, Luke has a nightmare about the robbery. The next morning, they awake to find Luke's chest bleeding from puncture wounds, Hutch screaming in terror and having wet himself, a catatonic Dom screaming for his wife Gayle, and a naked Phil praying to the effigy. Disturbed, the group tries to leave the woods through a side trail not shown on the map, despite Luke's protests. While discerning their location, Luke spots a large figure amongst the trees, but Dom doubts him. In their ensuing argument, Luke claims they wouldn't be in the forest if it weren't for Dom and Dom calls Luke a coward for letting Rob die. | |||
| Climbing a ridge to get an idea of their location, Luke sees a large figure in the trees. Dom doubts his report, and in an ensuing argument, Dom reveals that he blames Luke for Rob's death, and calls Luke cowardly for failing to act during the robbery. | |||
| As they continue hiking, they find an abandoned tent overgrown in foliage, with a backpack and wallet that has a ] that expired in ]. Everyone but Hutch sees it as a bad sign, but Hutch says they must be close to the lodge and on a path that others use. Later that night, the group is awakened by Phil's screams. Hutch is missing and his tent has partially collapsed. The remaining three search for him, but by dawn, they realize they are lost. Eventually, they find a gutted Hutch impaled on tree branches and give him an impromptu burial. Around sunset, Phil is attacked and dragged away by an unseen creature. Luke and Dom flee. They find a torch-lined path leading to a small settlement. Upon rushing into a cottage, they are knocked unconscious. | |||
| Later that night, screams awaken Luke from another nightmare. Discovering that Hutch's tent is empty, the other three men rush deeper into the woods, lured by Hutch's screams. By dawn, they realise that they have become lost and can't find their campsite. They decide to continue their search without their tents and supplies. The three come upon Hutch eviscerated and impaled on tree branches, much like the gutted deer they had found earlier. After retrieving his compass and knife, the men give Hutch an impromptu burial with tree branches. | |||
| Luke and Dom awake to find themselves restrained in a basement. An elderly woman inspects Luke's chest wounds, revealing she bears a similar marking. Two men drag Dom upstairs and later return him, beaten and bruised, to the basement. Dom says he will be ] to the creature and urges Luke to flee. Later, while Dom is tied up outside by the townsfolk, Luke begins freeing himself from the restraints. Amidst the ], Dom hallucinates his wife emerging from the forest, only to realize it is the creature as it picks him up and impales him on a nearby tree. | |||
| Luke leaves Phil and Dom on the lower part of a ridge to climb a hill that provides an overview of the entire forest, and discovers that they are relatively close to the edge of the forest. He also spots smoke rising from distant campfires. He rejoins the other two to find them pointing their torches towards the trees, saying they heard a noise. Suddenly, Phil is dragged away by an unseen creature. Seeking a hiding place, Luke encounters Dom and urges him to run with him. They get to their feet and begin to run, the creature giving chase. They pass Phil's body impaled on the branches of a tree near a path of lit torches that leads to a small village. They seek shelter in the first building they see, and collapse on the cabin floor, only to be knocked unconscious. | |||
| A young woman explains to Luke that the creature is the giant ]-like ] "Moder", an ancient god-like entity and offspring of ] that grants the ] ] in exchange for sacrifices. Luke is to either worship Moder or be sacrificed. After she leaves, Luke frees himself and ventures upstairs. Armed with a torch, Luke finds a congregation of ] worshipers that begin to move and sets them alight, burning the cabin, and attracting Moder. Luke finds a hunting rifle and heads downstairs, killing a cult member and taking an axe. The enraged jötunn kills the young woman while Luke shoots at it and escapes. | |||
| When they awaken, they find themselves restrained in a basement. An elderly woman enters and inspects the puncture marks on Luke's chest. She pulls down her dress to reveal a similar pattern on her chest. She turns to leave the basement and utters a command in a foreign language, which prompts two men to grab Dom and take him to the upper floor of the cabin. A younger woman enters the basement and explains in English that preparations are being made for sacrifice. Sometime later, Dom is escorted back to the basement, beaten and bloodied, but still alive. He explains to Luke that he will serve as a human sacrifice to the creature, and instructs him to find a way to escape and destroy the village. | |||
| Moder pursues Luke, crippling his mind with ]s of Rob's death before catching and forcing him to his knees. Luke refuses to submit, strikes it with the axe, then flees. He runs towards the hill, seeing rays of sunlight, and emerges in an open field. Unable to leave the forest, Moder angrily roars. Luke shouts back in triumph and heads towards a paved road. | |||
| Dom is taken outside of the cabin and brought to a wooden post, where his hands are tied behind his back. As night falls, a roar is heard from the forest. The captors immediately fall to their knees in worship. Dom has a vision of his wife emerging from the trees and holding his face in her hands. This is, in reality, the creature that has been pursuing the men. The creature removes Dom from the post and impales him on the branches of a nearby tree, leaving him to die. Desperate to escape, Luke escapes from one of his restraints by breaking his thumb, but is interrupted by the young woman's sudden entrance before he can remove the second. When Luke asks about the creature, she explains that it is called a '']'', a god-like figure from Scandinavian mythology that is a bastard child of ], and that they provide it sacrifices in return for immortality. She states that Luke will take part in a ritual where he will submit to the creature and join the cult, or be killed. | |||
| After she leaves, Luke breaks free from his restraints and leaves the basement. He ventures to the upper floor of the cabin, hearing prayers and screaming coming from behind a closed door. Armed with a burning torch, he opens the door and finds a twisted congregation of mummified, but still living, humans, evidently the end result of the immortality granted by their worship of the creature. Following Dom's last wish, he sets the worshippers alight. This act attracts the Jötunn, who emerges from the forest to find the cabin burning. In a rage, the creature kills the young woman, seemingly gouging her eyes out after speaking with her angrily. Luke uses this opportunity to escape from the burning cabin after a couple of cultists almost stop him, and the creature bars his way from the front door. Before running into the woods, Luke aims and takes a shot at the creature as it is holding the young woman's body aloft. The creature pursues him, attempting to cripple his mind by causing hallucinations of his recurring nightmare. The creature eventually catches him, and forces him onto his knees multiple times, offering Luke a chance to submit. Luke uses an axe which he had previously taken from one of the worshippers to strike the creature, briefly incapacitating it. He follows the sunlight, emerging from the forest into an open field. Seemingly unable to leave the forest, the creature roars at him, and he screams back in triumph. Luke turns from the monster and heads in the direction of a paved road with a passing car, a sign of civilization. | |||
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| * Paul Reid as Robert | |||
| * Maria Erwolter as The Host | |||
| * Hilary Reeves as The Curate | |||
| * Francesca Mula as The Witch | |||
| * ] as Junkie | |||
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== Production == | ||
| The film was shot on location in the ] of ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.shorehamherald.co.uk/news/horror-film-ritual-features-southwick-actor-1074836|title = Horror film the Ritual features Southwick actor}}</ref> | |||
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| The film's score was composed by ]'s long-time friend and frequent collaborator, ]. Lovett also scored Bruckner's 2007 film ] and 2020's '']''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Reeves|first=Rachel|date=2020-02-07|title= Composer Ben Lovett On THE NIGHT HOUSE, David Bruckner and His Deep Cut Connection to Alkaline Trio|url=https://nofspodcast.com/exclusive-interview-composer-ben-lovett-on-the-night-house-david-bruckner-and-his-deep-cut-connection-to-alkaline-trio/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-06|website=Nightmare on Film Street}}</ref> | |||
| ⚫ | ===Critical reception=== | ||
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| ⚫ | Katie Walsh of the '']'' praised the film and said that it was "Efficient and highly effective in its style, relying on sound, creepy production design, and the men's own fear and |
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| ⚫ | ''The Ritual'' premiered in September 2017 at the ], where its international distribution rights were sold to ] for $4.75 million.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/toronto-horror-film-ritual-sells-netflix-475-million-1037956|title=Toronto: Horror Film 'The Ritual' Sells to Netflix for $4.75 Million (Exclusive)|work=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=23 January 2018|language=en}}</ref> The film was theatrically released in the United Kingdom by ] on 13 October 2017 and grossed over $1 million during its run.<ref name="BoxOffice" /> It was later released to Netflix on 9 February 2018.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://nofspodcast.com/ritual-heading-netflix-february/|title=THE RITUAL Heading to Netflix This February |date=13 January 2018|work=Nightmare on Film Street|access-date=23 January 2018|language=en-US}}</ref> | ||
| ⚫ | ===Critical reception=== | ||
| ⚫ | On ] website ], the film holds an approval rating of 74% based on 96 reviews, and an average rating of 6.1/10. The website's critical consensus states: "Director David Bruckner makes evocative use of the Scandinavian setting and a dedicated cast to deliver a handsome — if familiar — horror story."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_ritual_2017|title=The Ritual (2017)|work=]|publisher=]|accessdate=October 29, 2022}}</ref> On ], the film has a weighted average score of 57 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".<ref>{{cite web|title=The Ritual Reviews |work=]|url=https://metacritic.com/movie/the-ritual|publisher=]|accessdate=14 February 2018}}</ref> | ||
| ⚫ | Katie Walsh of the '']'' praised the film and said that it was "Efficient and highly effective in its style, relying on sound, creepy production design, and the men's own fear and misjudgments to create the sense of pervasive doom."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-capsule-the-ritual-review-20180208-story.html|title=Primal and visceral horror haunts 'The Ritual'|last=Walsh|first=Katie|website=]|date=8 February 2018|access-date=2018-03-12}}</ref> '']'' writer Simon Abrams scored the film a 2/4, saying "The most disappointing kind of bad horror movie: the kind that's too smart to be this dumb."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-ritual-2018|title=The Ritual Movie Review & Film Summary (2018) {{!}} Roger Ebert|last=Abrams|first=Simon|website=www.rogerebert.com|language=en|access-date=2018-03-12}}</ref> Kyle Kohner of '']'' gave the film a negative review, saying "David Bruckner had all the ingredients for a horror masterpiece - deceptively scenic wilderness shots, great character camaraderie, dreadful atmosphere/setting- but ''The Ritual'' winds up a missed opportunity."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://theplaylist.net/ritual-review-20180213/|title='The Ritual' Conjures Up Familiar, Forgettable Horror |date=2018-02-13|work=The Playlist|access-date=2018-03-12|language=en-US}}</ref> | ||
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2017 horror film by David Bruckner
| The Ritual | |
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| Directed by | David Bruckner |
| Screenplay by | Joe Barton |
| Based on | The Ritual by Adam Nevill |
| Produced by | |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Andrew Shulkind |
| Edited by | Mark Towns |
| Music by | Ben Lovett |
| Production company | The Imaginarium |
| Distributed by | |
| Release dates |
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| Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1.3–1.6 million |
The Ritual is a 2017 British supernatural psychological folk horror film directed by David Bruckner and written by Joe Barton. Based on the 2011 novel of the same name by Adam Nevill, the film stars Rafe Spall, Arsher Ali, Robert James-Collier, and Sam Troughton as four friends on a hiking trip through a Swedish old-growth forest, where they encounter an ancient evil presence.
Following its world premiere at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival on 8 September, The Ritual was released by eOne in the United Kingdom on 13 October.
Plot
In a pub, five friends—Phil, Dom, Hutch, Luke, and Rob—discuss plans for a holiday. Rob suggests hiking in Sweden but gets rebuffed. Afterward, Luke and Rob leave to purchase alcohol but get involved in a robbery which soon turns violent. While Luke hides, the robbers harass and eventually kill Rob.
Six months later, the remaining four start a hiking trip along the Kungsleden in northern Sweden in memory of Rob. After Dom injures his knee, Hutch suggests cutting through the forest rather than following the marked trail. Luke is against it but Dom insists that if there's a shortcut, they should use it. Upon entering the forest, the group comes across a gutted and hanged elk, and mysterious symbols carved in the trees.
At night, a torrential rainstorm forces them to take shelter in an abandoned cabin. They find necklaces bearing similar symbols and an effigy of a decapitated human torso made of twigs, with antlers for hands. During the night, Luke has a nightmare about the robbery. The next morning, they awake to find Luke's chest bleeding from puncture wounds, Hutch screaming in terror and having wet himself, a catatonic Dom screaming for his wife Gayle, and a naked Phil praying to the effigy. Disturbed, the group tries to leave the woods through a side trail not shown on the map, despite Luke's protests. While discerning their location, Luke spots a large figure amongst the trees, but Dom doubts him. In their ensuing argument, Luke claims they wouldn't be in the forest if it weren't for Dom and Dom calls Luke a coward for letting Rob die.
As they continue hiking, they find an abandoned tent overgrown in foliage, with a backpack and wallet that has a credit card that expired in 1984. Everyone but Hutch sees it as a bad sign, but Hutch says they must be close to the lodge and on a path that others use. Later that night, the group is awakened by Phil's screams. Hutch is missing and his tent has partially collapsed. The remaining three search for him, but by dawn, they realize they are lost. Eventually, they find a gutted Hutch impaled on tree branches and give him an impromptu burial. Around sunset, Phil is attacked and dragged away by an unseen creature. Luke and Dom flee. They find a torch-lined path leading to a small settlement. Upon rushing into a cottage, they are knocked unconscious.
Luke and Dom awake to find themselves restrained in a basement. An elderly woman inspects Luke's chest wounds, revealing she bears a similar marking. Two men drag Dom upstairs and later return him, beaten and bruised, to the basement. Dom says he will be sacrificed to the creature and urges Luke to flee. Later, while Dom is tied up outside by the townsfolk, Luke begins freeing himself from the restraints. Amidst the ritual, Dom hallucinates his wife emerging from the forest, only to realize it is the creature as it picks him up and impales him on a nearby tree.
A young woman explains to Luke that the creature is the giant deer-like jötunn "Moder", an ancient god-like entity and offspring of Loki that grants the cult immortality in exchange for sacrifices. Luke is to either worship Moder or be sacrificed. After she leaves, Luke frees himself and ventures upstairs. Armed with a torch, Luke finds a congregation of mummified worshipers that begin to move and sets them alight, burning the cabin, and attracting Moder. Luke finds a hunting rifle and heads downstairs, killing a cult member and taking an axe. The enraged jötunn kills the young woman while Luke shoots at it and escapes.
Moder pursues Luke, crippling his mind with hallucinations of Rob's death before catching and forcing him to his knees. Luke refuses to submit, strikes it with the axe, then flees. He runs towards the hill, seeing rays of sunlight, and emerges in an open field. Unable to leave the forest, Moder angrily roars. Luke shouts back in triumph and heads towards a paved road.
Cast
- Rafe Spall as Luke
- Arsher Ali as Phil
- Robert James-Collier as Hutch
- Sam Troughton as Dom
- Paul Reid as Robert
- Maria Erwolter as The Host
- Hilary Reeves as The Curate
- Francesca Mula as The Witch
- Matthew Needham as Junkie
Production
The film was shot on location in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania.
The film's score was composed by David Bruckner's long-time friend and frequent collaborator, Ben Lovett. Lovett also scored Bruckner's 2007 film The Signal and 2020's The Night House.
Release
The Ritual premiered in September 2017 at the Toronto International Film Festival, where its international distribution rights were sold to Netflix for $4.75 million. The film was theatrically released in the United Kingdom by eOne Films on 13 October 2017 and grossed over $1 million during its run. It was later released to Netflix on 9 February 2018.
Critical reception
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 74% based on 96 reviews, and an average rating of 6.1/10. The website's critical consensus states: "Director David Bruckner makes evocative use of the Scandinavian setting and a dedicated cast to deliver a handsome — if familiar — horror story." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 57 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Katie Walsh of the Los Angeles Times praised the film and said that it was "Efficient and highly effective in its style, relying on sound, creepy production design, and the men's own fear and misjudgments to create the sense of pervasive doom." RogerEbert.com writer Simon Abrams scored the film a 2/4, saying "The most disappointing kind of bad horror movie: the kind that's too smart to be this dumb." Kyle Kohner of The Playlist gave the film a negative review, saying "David Bruckner had all the ingredients for a horror masterpiece - deceptively scenic wilderness shots, great character camaraderie, dreadful atmosphere/setting- but The Ritual winds up a missed opportunity."
References
- ^ "The Ritual (2017) – Financial Information". The Numbers. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
- "The Ritual". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
- "Horror film the Ritual features Southwick actor".
- Reeves, Rachel (7 February 2020). "[Exclusive Interview] Composer Ben Lovett On THE NIGHT HOUSE, David Bruckner and His Deep Cut Connection to Alkaline Trio". Nightmare on Film Street. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
- "Toronto: Horror Film 'The Ritual' Sells to Netflix for $4.75 Million (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
- "THE RITUAL Heading to Netflix This February". Nightmare on Film Street. 13 January 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
- "The Ritual (2017)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
- "The Ritual Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
- Walsh, Katie (8 February 2018). "Primal and visceral horror haunts 'The Ritual'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
- Abrams, Simon. "The Ritual Movie Review & Film Summary (2018) | Roger Ebert". www.rogerebert.com. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
- "'The Ritual' Conjures Up Familiar, Forgettable Horror [Review]". The Playlist. 13 February 2018. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
External links
- The Ritual at IMDb
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- 2017 films
- 2010s monster movies
- 2010s supernatural horror films
- 2017 horror films
- Folk horror films
- British monster movies
- Lionsgate Canada films
- Films about cults
- Films about human sacrifice
- Films about witchcraft
- Films based on British novels
- Films based on horror novels
- Films based on Norse mythology
- Films directed by David Bruckner
- Films set in forests
- Films set in Sweden
- Films shot in Romania
- 2010s English-language films
- British supernatural horror films
- 2017 directorial debut films
- 2010s British films
- Films scored by Ben Lovett