Review #53: The Ritual (2017)
This review was originally written in October 2019. October Horror Movie Review #1: The Ritual I was going to watch this movie last week while on vacation but the version I'd downloaded was real choppy, so catching it on Netflix made for a good start to the month. Overall I liked this film; it didn't do anything new or exciting but most of what it did was solid and it reminded me of several other, better movies (which I mean in a good way). It definitely felt a lot like Blair Witch (both the original and the remake/boot from 2016)- friends on a hike in the woods get lost and encounter spooky stuff. It also reminded me of another movie called Witches' Night from 2007- a group of guy friends encounter some witch-y stuff on a camping trip and each of them gets cursed in a specific way- but where that movie focused on each of the men and their own failings as part of the ultimate ritual, this movie doesn't, really. The guy at the beginning injures his leg but it doesn't...