The Ritual

20171 hour 34 minsREnglish, Swedish

HorroRated verdict

Highly Recommended

2010sFolk HorrorCreature FeatureWitchcraftSurvival Horror

Directed by: David Bruckner
Written by: Joe Barton, Adam Nevill
Produced by: Patricia Poienaru, Andy Serkis, Richard Holmes, Jonathan Cavendish, Stephen Nixon, Xavier Marchand, Will Tennant, Phil Robertson, Ron Ames

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Folk Horror Creature Features Survival Horror Slow Burn Isolation

Why it’s HorroRated

The Ritual is a folk horror film that earns its creature reveal by building real dread through landscape and grief first. The four men's friendship and their guilt about their friend's death give the supernatural elements emotional grounding. The creature design in the final act is the film's most talked-about element and it genuinely delivers.

Synopsis

David Bruckner's folk horror builds its dread through landscape and the relationships between the grieving men before the supernatural element becomes explicit. The creature design in the final act is the film's most talked-about element and it delivers. One of the more impressive folk horror films of the decade.