The Ritual (2017)

Необычный фильм в жанре хорора. В конце уже не так сильно держит в напряжении, но все равно рекомендую к просмотру!

A great creepy folk horror with a very dense atmosphere of a remote northern forest. But I will definitely not revise it

Great movie. The design of the Jotun is chic, and the very fuck of the show is very competent: where it is necessary to see, and where it is not necessary is hidden in the shadows, the imagination itself draws.
Here I am probably a nit, as the main character, but I don't understand at all what his fault was. Did his friends expect him to jump on the knife too? And then why did you hide like a coward, why didn't you scatter armed robbers like Rambo? Yeah, fucking great. It would be fucked up if instead of one memorial, you built two at once. They also shamed him. Such friends for a dick and to the museum, as they say.
And the dead fucker is solely to blame for his own death. Didn't have time to hide? Well ok. Turn out your pockets and give everything you have. But to get into the prick because of the wedding ring... Fuck, you'll buy something else. But you can't buy a second life. If there is a robber with a machete in front of you, you will even take off the last panties, not like a ring. He died because of his own stupidity, and gg was tormented by guilt because of this degenerate

Unusual, atmospheric, I really liked it🤝

Very bright and atmospheric, with a beautifully crafted monster and exquisite drama. I'll probably reconsider it in a couple of years. I started reading the book, I heard good reviews. The characters are well embodied by the actors, but the cliche about the broken leg of one of the comrades from every second horror movie is that they are in vain. There are many reasons to spend the night in a hut, but a broken leg is a must-have for screenwriters...

It's a pretty good movie about the troubles of the campaign. The atmosphere is well pumped up. The monster is made with a bang, it doesn't feel like it's some kind of cringe, it really bothers you. From the moment of the murder in the store, I didn't really understand what it was for at all. Well, in general, the story of these people who worship the monster, where they come from in general, why they worship, also the information passed by.

Some good reviews. I was reading a book, and after reading it I went to watch a movie. And the film did not reveal even half of what was in the original source.
It's very unclear.

There is only one conclusion - there is no point in shortening the path.

Atmospheric film
I didn't want to go hiking anymore :)

A complete disappointment, not a movie. To be honest, I was expecting something more impressive, but I got some kind of stretched burden.

I'll start with the fact that for the first 40 minutes nothing happens at all — just some men wandering through the woods and talking about all sorts of nonsense. Well, yes, the scenery is beautiful, but I came to watch the horrors, not a documentary about the nature of Sweden!

The actors play so-so, especially infuriating is this main character with his eternal drama about a dead friend. Well, how much can you talk about this topic? Already in the middle of the movie, I just want to shout: "That's enough already!"

And now about the most important thing — about the horrors. Where are they anyway? The monster appears for a couple of minutes at most, and then in the dark, you can't see anything. All these "scary" moments can be predicted from a kilometer away. And this eternal theme with the division of the company — well, how long can you exploit this hackneyed plot?

The ending actually killed me! It feels like the director himself didn't know how to finish the film. Some kind of ridiculous ending with an incomprehensible moral. And what was it with this creature at the end? Let the main character go just like that? Seriously?

The only thing that can be given a plus is camerawork with landscapes. But it definitely wasn't worth spending 90 minutes of your life for.

In general, I don't recommend wasting time. If you want to watch a normal horror movie, pass it by. It's just boring stuff with a claim to deep meaning. 2 out of 10, and that's just for the beautiful views of the forest.

P.S. And yes, I still don't understand why it was necessary to make such a long film out of what could have been packed in half an hour.

The first half of the movie is a tedious chatter of four men, but I give you 5 stars for this one.

2 stars purely for 1) Beautiful views and 2) Interesting monster design
I am silent about the illogic of characters in horror films, this is already such a base that there is nothing to say.
In my opinion, this film has a very high rating.
The men spent an hour fucking around in the woods and getting offended like little kids while they were figuring things out
As a result, not a single hero was really revealed, except for gg, and then one thought, "well, you're a coward, bro,"
Then a cult appears for the last half hour... Wow, so our hero turns out to be the chosen one and, so to speak, "marked"
Again, no answers, not even hints, think for yourself
The cultists had been worshipping the forest fucker for years in exchange for longevity, and then they dragged in a lost traveler who turned this village upside down in one night, and the cultists got it too)) Offhand, they thought, "Fuck we let him live."
The movie wasn't worth the wait at all, from the category where you sit with friends and comment, "Stay out, you moron."

Of course, the book is much more interesting - it keeps me in suspense, I was sitting on pins and needles. The film will never be able to convey all these thoughts, feelings, and fears of the characters. We watch the movie and have no idea what the character is thinking, but the book has it all, as well as revealing the characters, including their lives before the campaign. The only thing is, the ending in the book seemed to me as blurry as in the movie. But the film gets respect for the beautiful views.