Films To Watch If You Liked The Ritual

The shows on Netflix are getting better and better year by year. And during this pandemic situation streaming services are new movie theatres. There are many films on the platform that stay with the audiences, one of such movies in the horror genre is, The Ritual. It is a British horror movie written by Joe Barton and directed by David Bruckner; the film is based on the novel of the same name written by author Adam Nevill. The story revolves around five friends, Phill, Hutch, Luke, Rob, and Dom. Rob suggests his friends for hiking and gets rebuffed. They went for a college trip of a lifetime. And as the group heads deep into the woods to take a shortcut, they encounter the presence of a sinister that is not a typical Sasquatch. Director Bruckner is known for his expertise, including V/H/S, Southbound, and the upcoming project reboot of Hellraiser. His sense of direction is unique, especially in the horror genre.

The fans of Ritual who want to watch more such movies, then in this article we have listed down some movies that have a similar creepy environment.

The Blair Witch Project (1999)

The Blair Witch Project is an American supernatural horror movie directed, written, and edited by  Eduardo Sanchez, and Daniel Myrick. The plot of the screenplay is a true story of three student filmmakers, played by Michael C. Williams, Heather Donahue, and Joshua Leonard- the three friends, planned to hike in the Black Hills near Burkittsville, Maryland. The three disappeared during the hike, and footage is recovered from the equipment they were carrying. The film is created based on the footage.

The filmmakers Sanchez and Myrick conceived a fictional legend, the Blair Witch in 1993. The two developed a 35 pages screenplay with improvised dialogues. The production of the movie started in October 1997. The shooting went for around eight days, it was 20-hour footage and was edited to 82 minutes. The budget of the film was around $35,000-$60,000 and adding up the post-production cost, and it crossed approximately $200,000-750,000.

The movie was pure entertainment, and the performances of the cast provide an authentic sense of footage. The sequel of the film was released in 2000 and a reboot in 2016, but the original version was the best one.

The Witch (2015)

The Witch: A New England Folktale aka The Witch is a period supernatural horror movie directed and written by Robert Eggers, and the film is his directorial debut. It stars Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Anya Talor-Joy, Ellie Grainger, Harvey Scrimshaw, and Lucas Dawson. The movie revolves around an English settler William and family- son Caleb, daughter Thomasin, wife Katherine, and fraternal twins Jonas and Mercy. They are banished from a Puritan Plymouth Colony for a religious dispute. They build a farm near a large forest, and Katherine bears her fifth child, Samuel. One day while playing peekaboo, Samuel disappeared. Soon they realized that a witch had stolen him.

The movie received positive reviews and collected a gross of $40 million for a production cost of $4 million. Audiences widely received the film with a 90% approval rating based on 317 reviews, with an average rating of 7.77/10. And on Metacritic, it got 83 out of 100 based on 46 critics, which indicates “universal acclaim”.

The Evil Dead (1981)

The Evil Dead is an American supernatural horror movie directed and written by Sam Raimi, produced by Robert Tapert. The film stars Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Betsy Baker, Richard DeManicor, and Theresa Tilly. The plot focuses on five students vacationing in an isolated cabin. Then they found an audiotape, which when played released spirits and demons. A demonic spirit possesses the four students among them.

Campbell, Tapert, Raimi, and their friends produced the short movie Within the Woods to build a secure investor, from that project, they got $90,000 to create the film The Evil Dead. The shooting of the movie took place in a remote location located in Morristown, Tennessee. It screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 1982 and received praise from the horror king, Stephen King. It collected a gross of $2.4 million in the United States and around $29.4 million worldwide. After the success of the first film The Evil Dead, the franchise released two more sequels directed and produced by Raimi, Evil Dead II in 1987, and Army of Darkness in 1992.

The Evil Dead is one of the best movies of Bruce Campbell along with the different iconic roles.

The Cabin In The Wood (2011)

The Cabin in the Woods is an American horror comedy movie directed by Drew Goddard and produced by Joss Whedon. The film stars Chris Hemsworth, Kristen Connolly, Fran Kranz, Richard Jenkins, Jesse Williams, and Bradley Whitford. The story revolves around a group of students who retreat to a remote forest cabin, where they become the victim of zombies. The film was initially released on 5 February 2010, but it underwent development hell and then shelved indefinitely. Then the movie was finally released on 13 April 2012 in the United States and collected a gross $66 million worldwide against a budget of $30 million. The Cabin In The Wood is a comedic movie with some of the scariest monsters in cinematic history, and a struggle to maintain humankind.

The Hallow (2015)

The Hallow is a horror movie written by Felipe Marino and Hardy and directed by Corin Hardy. The movie stars Bojana Novakovic, Joseph Mawle, Michael Smiley, and Michael McElhatton. The Hallow premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on 25 January 2015. The story follows a British conservationist specializing in plant and fungal life, Adam, his wife Claire, and their baby son Finn. They travel to a remorseless Irish village surrounded by a large forest. When Adam was exploring the woods with Finn, he stumbled around an animal carcass that had burst open the body. Later in the plot, they fight for survival against a demonic creature in the woods.

The Hallow is a combination of horror, fantasy, and thriller genres. Director Corin Hardy directed the full-length film debut, and he did it with a pretty creepy undertone and realistic way.

The Shrine (2010)

The Shrine is a Canadian supernatural horror movie produced by Brookstreet Pictures. The film was directed by Jon Knautz and starred Cindy Sampson, Aaron Ashmore, Meghan Heffern, and Trevor Matthews. The screenplay starts with a man tied to a table. And another man kills him with a sledgehammer. Then it shifts to a journalist, Carmen, who has a problem with her boyfriend, Marcus, who is a professional photographer. On the other hand, Carmen always thinks about her work and tends to ignore him. She was investigating mysterious disappearances and stumbled upon the next level of evil. The movie premiered at the FanTasia Film Festival on 25 July 2010 and received 6/10 stars from Bill Gibron in PopMatters.

The above are a few movies that you might like watching if you enjoyed The Ritual.

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