The Vines You Once Knew To Create Beauty Have Made A Turn In The Mayan Civilization, Which Creates Many Scare Tactics In Carter Smith, The Ruins.
You may ask yourself: what is a vine? A vine is a weak-stemmed plant that derives its support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface (Houghton Mifflin Company). Therefore vines are not scary and at most times create beauty around a house or building. In the movie The Ruins, four college students and a tour guide find out very differently when they come upon ruins that have been deserted. The vines in the movie come alive and make the students wonder if they will ever make it off of the top of the ruin. In this horror/thriller movie The Ruins, Carter Smith uses sound, darkness, gore, and insanity in many ways to create fear in the viewer.
The sounds in the movie differ in many different ways. When the students find where they are going through the woods, they see little Mexican people standing there. They try to talk to them but they are completely silent. By making this silent in the movie, it gives the audience a sense of confusion and fear at the same time. Also, every time one of the four college students would find a dead body it would get absolutely silent.
The vines play a huge part in the sound category, every time you would hear plants growing at a rapid pace or little echo’s of people talking; you knew something bad was going to happen. Every time you would hear the echo’s of the vines, it would be one of the students voices that the vines had recorded and you knew that the person was doomed.
Rattlesnake noises were made throughout the movie. You never saw one but the type of ticking noise that it was making put you in suspense. Most of the time in The Ruins something was always going to creep up on you. With this sound you had a feeling oh no what is next.
People screaming in the movie at each other played a big effect in scaring the viewers. During one scene in the movie, The Ruins, the Mayan settlers that lived around the ruin, came to the ruin when they saw the college students looking around. All of...
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