fellas, it is gay to wander into a scary ritual forest with other men? i mean you're basically looking at wood with a bunch of dudes idk it seems kinda spicy to me /:

As much as I admit to liking cheesy jump scares and sometimes dumb teenager based horror, David Bruckner’s The Ritual is exactly the kind of adult dread jam I was looking for: an unsettling, moody picture that’s both beautifully shot and well acted, all while drenched in a specific atmosphere that I f’n love. 

Utilizing the incredible landscape for some truly beautiful images, Bruckner’s film (based on novel of the same name) mixes elements of things we’ve seen before, executed maturely, confidently, and most importantly—effectively, as vibes reminiscent of (but not riffing on) The Blair Witch Project & The Descent covered in a rural folk-horror blanket of The Witch & The Wicker Man, all framed with a theme of guilt. The Ritual ignores jump scare tactics as our bickering group of men become more toxic as time goes on. This more than satisfied my lurking Deer Monster needs quite nicely and I’ll be revisiting this again soon.

what would happen if The Witch starred LADS LADS LADS

Erster Langfilm des Episoden- oder Kurzfilm-Könners. Ganz großer Pluspunkt: Hier wird Horror auch mal bei Tage zelebriert. Was anhand dieser so faszinierenden wie schaurigen Waldkulisse auch herrlich sitzt und wirkt. Ebenfalls groß: Die Musik. Über das ein wenig verschleppte Tempo ab der Hälfte und die Auflösung, die die Grundstimmung und -situation etwas zu einfach abhakt, kann man hinwegsehen. Die Auflösung ist nämlich ansonsten eine echt geile und formschöne Idee. Ein Film, der sich gediegen unter die Haut schleicht und Natur-Ängste abruft.

The Swedish Elk Project
The VVoods
The Deerscent

I can‘t really unterstand how this movie got so much appreciation. The story is completely obsolete. Conversations are totally unnecessary. The twist in the end doesn‘t make any sense for the rest of the plot. 

I would suggest you pick anything else to waste 1 1/2 hours on.

This movie is absolutely amazing. I can re-watch it at any given time in my life due to the sheer aptitude of amazing this film holds. I absolutely adore monster films, witch films, and movies similar to Blair Witch project and this movie holds all of it. Instead of Blair Witch we can actually see what the fuck is going on with a camera crew filming instead of a Go-Pro. We also get to see the creature behind the strange going-ons in this forest in the most epic reveals I have ever seen to this day. This movie is beautiful, from the cinematography to the main character's guilt-complex. In one of those, "is he just hallucinating or is it actually real?", ITS ACTUALLY REAL.

I’m not sure whether to give this film three stars or three and a half stars. I love the gloomy forest setting and it was beautifully shot at the location. It was a good story though nothing groundbreaking and I thought the monster was pretty cool looking. Something is missing though which is why I’m leaning more towards three stars. Still worth a watch.

"There are three of us and there is one of it and I've got a fucking knife"

Maybe I just went in with high expectations because I had a few people tell me it was pretty good, but I felt it was a little lack luster. It could’ve either leaned more into the Nordic lore or had better developed the characters backstories.

My friend and I thought that this would be a good jump scare time and boy howdy were we wrong.
Be warned friends this movie's a bummer.

The first half is a great witchcraft psychological horror film and the second half is good but switches up the genre

I liked this movie a lot. It was really spooky and the character was really awesome. I wasn’t really the biggest fan of the ending, But a lot of horror movies suffer with bad endings. The acting was really good, the story was really good (I kind of want to read the book), the shots were beautiful, and I really love the setting.

There’s not a lot that can be said otherwise without spoiling too much. But I really did enjoy the movie.