The Brutality Of THE RITUAL 

Any chance of you reviewing "American Mary" Love the series keep up the great work

Love the movies that you content bro.keep up

Wendigo's are actually a native american mythological creature The ritual moder is really more of just a typical Loki child half animal half humanoid also apparently half tree

The main guy, he'll always be an Andy for me. "You've got a moustache.." "I know"

Yep it's actually in a Swedish folk horror story I guess

It was excellent wasn’t it

I love it! Also, it has a similar feel to the board game Kingdom Death: Monster, so check that out if you like the design.

I 100% agree that design was incredible and deserves more attention

And terrifying.

You don’t live that long without being a force to be reckoned with

@@DeathnoteBB you don't get invited to alot of social events do you?

@@DeathnoteBB you must be so fun to be around

Old witch could cause a lot of problems if that's what she is. I'm just guessing this show being kind of paranormal and stuff.

@@spliffyrodgers4266 why’d you say that? bro was literally just agreeing with the og comment

Yeah I laughed my ass off he was just like "Oh not you again fuck off" xD

@@TheMetalhead678 so hilarious 😂

Lol

Even the actor was biting the laugh 🤣

To me it was a signal that he was ready to fight to survive.

@@jellybean90 lmao, well alright dude. Good to know.

It's based off a book and honestly reading it, the movie is good but a bit of a let down. There was so much more to the entire thing and massive bits were cut out.

@@umberchips5925 ah, as most all book-to-film works are, I s'pose. Sounds like it needs to be added to my pile of future readings. Is the name of the book the same title as the movie?

@@rolmodel12. Sorry for the late response. It is indeed the same name, the author is Adam Nevill. If you do end up reading it, I hope you enjoy.

I've never seen this movie , but it looks like it's more about Luke facing his fears, seen as he did nothing to save his friend who got killed in the robbery .

Not to mention it would've been 2 unarmed guys against what looked like 4 armed men happy to do murder. Both of those two would've been dead. So yes he should've just handed over his ring and hopefully that would've been enough to sate the killers.

​@@rustyhowe3907yea fr, like idk even if luke tried to talk it out they both prob would've died

Exactly. At the end of the day, it's just a piece of metal.

@@meghanworkman6449 Yup agreed and I fully understand sentimental value, but what good is sentiment if you're dead over it.

@@rustyhowe3907 indeed. I'd much rather have my ringless husband come home to me alive than have his ring but not him.

Yeah, that was annoying. Also, Phil had the wrong shoes for hiking and Dom had the wrong attitude. Never hike with someone like Dom. Only a very selfish person would sacrifice the group's safety for his knee. All these things ruined the movie for me.

Yep, it's very easy to get lost in the woods, or trip and fall to injure yourself worse. It's the absolute last thing you should ever do if you don't know the area and it doesn't have well established paths

Absolutely agree that young children would be advised to stay out of unfamiliar wooded areas. But once you've moved out of your parents home, let's hope that folks have enough common sense and experience to find themselves sufficiently prepared wherever they choose to go. I'm not saying to drop someone off with 100 km of forest in every direction. But if you can't manage a few hours of forest to save a few days and a friend, then that sounds like Darwin calling.

i mean if you have a compass and know your bearings you'll probably be fine. just dont trip like an asshole.

In fairness, though, it's not unrealistic, 'cause they were all a bunch of inexperienced people taking on a hike that was beyond their level without realising it. This kind of thing happens a lot in northern Norway and Sweden, it's very common for inexperienced hikers to fall off cliffs or die in avalanches or rock slides here because they underestimate the dangers.

That sounds like what a person from a culture with cults and Norse mythology would say to lure in naive visitors. So where do I sign up?

That's what someone from a cult would say-

@@tietvinhtrannguyen7439 An Ikea in sweden😩😩🇸🇪

@@RoganEzaric I’ve been caught😳😳

@-Vxlkrye-, I hope Thor comes to rescue as all.

Fr

So we can tap till its gone without missing the video🤫😂

@@wissewester1276 was legit just boutta say that lmao its so we know how many times we can click L without missing any video

Facts

Fr

that would have scared the sh*t out of me. also hello from AK! plenty of moose up here

If that happened to me I think I would’ve dropped dead on the spot from fear 😂

dont smoke

As it should, being the offspring of the Norse God Loki. A very unique and interesting movie monster, I think this film is an underrated gem!

Thousands of times ? Why even say something like that lol

@@WizardosBoz I just thought the same thing, well said!

@@WizardosBoz hyperbole gone unchecked smh

@@WizardosBoz right. thats literally impossible

Honestly yeah. I'm sure his wife would rather have him than a fucking ring

At least he got karma in the end for blaming the wrong person. Pretty satisfying and makes the movie all the more better.

Seriously though, if you’re getting mugged, just give em everything they want. It’s your best chance at getting away with your life…

Meh, the guy also lost his friend. Sure, it's unfair to blame Luke. At the same time, they all had traumatic experiences, and were stressed out. Luke is already seen as kind of a fuck-up, it's pretty realistic that at least one of them had these thoughts. I would bet that in a normal setting, none would have said anything like that and finally accepted the death of their friend without blaming Luke. But given how recently it was? Given how the guy had to walk kilometers through forest on a fucked up knee? How they were stalked by a supernatural killer? I think it's unfair, sure. But also understandable.

Luke was outnumbered, but it still feels like his guilt has taken over as he watched his friend get killed .

really loved this perspective. Hadnt thought about it from this angle and I have seen the movie 2x

this was poetic. thank you for this lol

Luke has the most level head on his shoulders of everyone in this film but he gets demonized by his friends because he was an alcoholic paralyzed by indecision while blitzed out of his mind. If anything it was Robert's fault for not coughing up the ring and attempting to appease the thieves instead of escalating the conflict. Luke had a singular moment of weakness that was paid for by the loss of a close friend, everyone else had multiple moments of weakness that cost all of them their lives except for Luke. Luke was the only one who actually let go of his grief and tried to move past the death of his friend, and that was why Modor couldn't defeat him. He had already processed and moved past the grief that gripped him so tightly by the end of the film and found his own will to live

Read the book

@@bassman8144 nah

@@bassman8144 i ain't reading that essay

Same! This movie has become a classic for our friend group ever since we randomly found it and were surprised how awesome this movie is

Yeah, saaaaame, lol; literally just saw it, after reaching the 14:00 mark of this video, so that he didn’t spoil the ending, because man, that setting/monster/entire fucking movie sounded like a fucking PERFECT fit for me; I mean, I really liked the Lovecraftian & ambiguous nature of the monster, as well as the huuuuge emphasis is on how creepily/eerily quiet temperate forests are, for 3 quarters of the movie, while giving us (& the characters) true despair & panic for the latter half of those same said 3 quarters; just amazingly well made, love that, & would love to make my own “Predator”-style horror movie set in a *completely quiet* temperate forest one day, specifically, but even more focused on the monster stalking & scaring both we and their victim(s), and not on any character arc or more human-centred theme or value, really; maybe only to just further contrast & magnify the monster’( & hi)s theme Maybe get an anthology of film-length narratives, completely separated from one another, but only chronologically, so to really capture the different facets of such a kind of monster properly through how it basically _”interacts”,_ so to speak, with different (groups of) people, to explore the theme of how “terrifying”, to say the least, could such creatures really be with unlocked potential, basically; And while I’m at it, I might as well try to get in there a few of all the well-known “Cryptids” (while trying to “popularize” lesser known ones of a more foreign origin, obviously, all in their own, loosely connected, other series of cinematographic productions (of more-or-less the same particular type); Stupid no-good clichés & conventions about really shouldn’t be there at all in the genre, so I’d like all that to be *categorically absent* from all that fucking project; basically, when you experience these productions, you shouldn’t expect anything else than what you’d expect from the terms “horror”, “generalized existentialism”, “supernatural hierarchy”, “environmental supremacy”, “surviving dinosaurs (yes, bit of an outlier, there, but like I said, all major Cryptids, like the Loch Ness Monster, or the Megalodon, etc…) And I’d also like to add aliens in this entire fucking thing : Like, smth to see what kind of aliens do exist in a universe that has our Earth cursed with even just _one_ of those *b l o o d - c u r d l i n g* monsters, already that I’ve -implied- said that we’d see the same kind of inclusivity for time periods (both past & future) that don’t get to have these kinds of scenarios And if that’s all a lot to weave together, than I should have different “continuities”, all with their own special set of of Cryptids & (again, loose, more-or-less) overarching storylines & world-buildings; That’s gonna be e-SPE-cially for what gets into space horror finally : Both _”Alien”_ & _”Star Trek (Enterprise) MEETS Alien, literally”_ style; like, most of time it’s _really_ just the interstellar equivalent of like in this movie, & go in a silent forest that feels *”larger than life”,* however the fuck I can even _feel_ like that even makes sense…

I think apostle was really weird, maybe it’s just me

@@jbwatso6756 that drill scene lives rent free *In My Head* ;)

Apostle is so gruesome

I really liked this.film but.didn't like Apostle, mostly because I didn't really get it...

Apostle is such a great movie. The underlying themes, the savageness, the acting. Mwuah!

I love this movie also Check out “I saw the devil”

I was looking for this comment. I watched the movie with my girl may a couple of year ago and I was just like okay its a goood goood movie then yesterday I watched it on my TV with surround sound and AFTER phil praying to the statue scene my life has never been the same it isnt the scares or the creature but the thought that it can fuck up your psyche and the feeling you get when you hear your friends chest tearing apart by loud ghastly screams and gallops of the creature way in the distance and knowing that you cant fuck with a god its absolutely terrifying.

The Ritual is clearly not the scariest horror movie ever made. And it’s nowhere near a masterpiece. There’s nothing sensational or groundbreaking about it. It’s basically the classic cookie-cutter format of four men in scary woods who come across a monster/ supernatural entity bla bla bla.. The plot is underwhelming, the acting is luke-warm and the ending’s nonsensical. Only an amateur would call that the ‘best horror movie ever.’

It's a good movie, but "the scariest horror movie ever made" is a bold statement. Have you ever seen Hereditary? Skinamarink? The Human Centipede Two? All of those are better, just to name a few.

I would say it's not a masterpiece, and not the scariest movie ever, but it's still pretty good. I've seen a lot of horror movies, and with the budget they had, they did a pretty good job.@@DeeDee-wi4xo

True

Phil and Dom were aholes to Luke, only the Chad guy still looked at Luke as a friend

Agree - basically three more friends died in his journey to come to terms with the death of the first friend.

I don't get why they changed the story so much. I guess they wanted you to hate him.

@@melissaschaecher251 I didn't hate him.

what??? he was in shaun of the dead ??

Plus when you look closely, the monsters actually there in a lot of shots. You can see him moving through the woods sometimes while there just walking.

Begotten should be forgotten.

the brutality is that it's super boring and long

The brutality of Begotten is that it's incredibly shitty

Hello person from a year ago, this has been me for the past week straight in my spare time since discovering the channel 😅 bingeing the ever loving crapola out of it and loving it

I always wondered how he explained his friends deaths when he got back to civilisation?

I second this. Holy crap, is that movie a good flick!

I third this 😂. That movie is genuinely amazing. One of my favourite horror movies. “ A ghost does not have flesh and bones, i have both”

The white Christmas episode right?

Fun movie 👊

Eh its a decent movie but so many people have recapped it

@@zombiesociety3683 Oh have they? I only watch this channel and Spooky Rice and sometimes story recapped so I wasn’t sure

@@nooffensebut8220 bro your missing out. Mystery recapped and Cinema summary are good

@@zombiesociety3683 Oh yeah that’s what I meant Mystery Recapped lolll got the names mixed up

Good comp! Has some The Witch vibes in there, too.

@@rolmodel12. yes definitely! i couldnt place the other one it reminded me of

@@ookyspookychic2529 lol, well, then I'm happy to help! I, too, loved this film. And both movies we compared it to. I was 18, when the original Blair Witch was released in theaters, and I caught it early- and was absolutely stunned by it. I have alway's loved horror movie's, and I have alway's loved well-written, intelligent story telling, so that ambiguous, creepy as fuck ending.... 👌🏻 It stayed with me for a long time. Funny how a good movie can be scary without a single jump scare, or any gore whatsoever. Just like the slow burning, theological terror of The Witch. And the psychological horror of this one: PTSD can be a living nightmare, and the mind can create torment that may not be seen by other's, but to the sufferer is very, very real. Now, toss in a malevolent, beastly, demi-god that know's and controls that trauma/torment... and you have yourself one HELL of a movie monster! This flick is relatively brilliant, and I can't recommend it enough.

They explain in the movie that its a bastard child of Loki, Moder. 😊

The ending was a bit underwhelming in comparison to the book. I'm guessing they made certain changes due to either time or attempting to appeal to a more general audience. I was pleased they did the banter and group relationships well though.

Shame they swapped in the generic backwater cultists, missing much of the psychological torment the protagonist endures in the Adam Nevill novel.

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@@xenongd6974 I actually had a phase where I was really into magick and things like that 🥲👍 That whole sort of thing just ended up not really being for me, but I retained plenty of knowledge from it

What parts would’ve been added that you wanted to see??

What's the novel called? I didn't know it was based off a book and now i want to read it

The book is called The Ritual and it's by Adam Nevill. The characters come across a group of black metal "enthusiasts," who keep them hostage in a house. If these characters had been included in the movie, it would've been much better.