Top billed cast

1. 

   Rafe Spall

   Luke

2. 

   Arsher Ali

   Phil

3. 

   Robert James-Collier

   Hutch

4. 

   Sam Troughton

   Dom

5. 

   Paul Reid

   Robert

6. 

   Matthew Needham

   Junkie

7. 

   Jacob James Beswick

   Fiend

8. 

   Maria Erwolter

   The Host

9. 

   Hilary Reeves

   The Curate

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Reviews

A review by Wuchak

Written by Wuchak on 2018-02-14

RELEASED IN 2017 and directed by David Bruckner, "The Ritual" is a psychological adventure/horror about four British dudes in their 30s who embark on a hike in remote northern Sweden wherein it slowly becomes evident that some THING is stalking them in the dark woods. Will any of them make it out alive?

This is basically a meshing of “The Blair Witch Project” (1999) and “Ogre” (2008), but without the tongue-in-cheekiness of the latter. There’s also a little bit of “The Wicker Man” (1973/2006). Like “Blair Witch” the foul-mouthed protagonists become increasingly horrified ...read the rest

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2. Never Let Go60%
3. Fear Street: 199466%
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5. The Descent70%
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7. I Am Not a Serial Killer63%
8. Mandy62%
9. Silver Bullet66%
10. Nosferatu67%
11. Fear Street: 197871%
12. Daddy's Head59%
13. The Watchers63%
14. Color Out of Space60%
15. Dark Harvest60%
16. House of 1000 Corpses61%
17. The Exorcist III62%
18. Gretel & Hansel60%
19. The Boogeyman63%
20. The Blair Witch Project63%

Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$1,000,000.00

Revenue
$1,786,396.00

Keywords

• robbery
• monster
• based on novel or book
• nightmare
• sweden
• hiking
• scandinavia
• forest
• friends
• grief
• murder
• cabin
• guilt
• survival horror
• pagan
• norse mythology
• guilty conscience
• folk horror
• lost in the woods
• amused