🍿 2022-05-31 20:00:50 – Paris/France.
Few means and a lot of tension in one of the best pieces of folk-horror that we have seen recently. " The ritual "currently in Netflix's catalog, is a 2017 British film that spices up a few well-known elements (for example, it has a lot of 'The Blair Witch Project' although it takes very different paths) with other very original ones. The perfect balance between the usual tropes of genre cinema and a few surprises that take it away from the hackneyed.
'El ritual' tells us how a group of university friends who hadn't seen each other for a long time got together to hike through the harsh mountains of Sweden to pay their respects to one of their deceased of violent death. When a strange presence begins to harass them, they will have to wonder why they are really there.
Raised as a psychological horror film but also as a monster movies who uses Norse mythology with tremendous intelligence,'The Ritual' gives the viewer no respite from the oppressive landscape of Sweden's wilderness. The mystery that forests naturally carry is the perfect seasoning for a film by David Bruckner, who cut his teeth in magnificent episodic films like 'V/H/S' or 'Southbound' and who will direct the next version of Hellraiser .
The excellent tension built on the basis of superb flashbacks and an almost theatrical use of the sets is also supported by the cast: Rafe Spall won the prize for best actor in the official selection in Sitges, and the rest of the group of hikers is also the height of the challenge. A Netflix movie to watch with plenty of camping gas.
SOURCE: Reviews News
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