#the ritual movie

[darlingandmreames]

Rewatching The Ritual (again) and it's time to truly reach with some probably unnecessary analysis agdkfjdh

It's ALWAYS struck me how Luke isn't using the waist or chest straps on his pack when they're hiking at the beginning. Maybe it's just because I've done long hikes with packs like that but I can't NOT notice that he isn't using them, especially since all the others ARE using them. Carrying a fully loaded pack without using the straps is super difficult because all the weight is sitting on your shoulders rather than being more evenly distributed. It's an inefficient and uncomfortable way to be carrying a heavy weight.

It wasn't until this rewatch that I realized that might be the point.

Rob's death is a weight for them all. His sudden, brutal death is something they all have to carry as they try to process it and move on. But that weight isn't being carried the same way by all of them. For as painful as it is, Hutch, Phil, and Dom don't have to carry it alone. They can rely on each other. They can lean on each other and support each other and spread the weight around to make it a little less unbearable.

Not Luke though. The weight is probably the heaviest for him out of all of them- he didn't just lose Rob, he watched him die. Watched him bleed out. He doesn't have help carrying the weight though. The people he would otherwise turn to for support blame him for the fact they have to carry this weight in the first place. And so he's left carrying this weight entirely on his own, without any help. Just an unbearable, dead weight sitting on his back with nothing to spread it around or make it easier to carry. No supports- no straps- just the weight.

[jayvrontio]

I rewatched The Ritual last night and I think it was for the 5th or 6th time and I’ll still continue doing it and that gave me the motivation to post some drawings I did of the 4 main boys.

It was easy for me to draw Hutch and Luke(since they are my favorites) but I kinda strugle at drawing Dom. Phil was alright.

I totally love that movie and I’m very glad with how these drawings turned out and I wanna draw even more from the movie.

[multi-fandom-imagine]

I’m rewatching The Ritual {2017} seriously it’s such an amazing movie it made me buy the book.

but now it’s making me want to write shit for Luke because I love this man and I feel so bad for him.

[uglynicc]

Just y'know watching festive xmas movies as one does and this is one of my favorite moments in any movie ever

[sconfittoleone]

[souptm]

What if I just dropped one (1) Johnny Soap Mactavish into The Ritual (2017)? What if I did that? What if I traumatized our babygirl?

[faustlyaccused]

I think Moder and the monster from Antlers would vibe together in a spooky forest.

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres: folk horror

[nerdreamer]

[beaulesbian]

[gresit]

A MOVIE A DAY KEEPS THE GHOULIES AWAY - DAY 24 ↪ My old scoutmaster used to say 'If the shortcut was a shortcut, it wouldn't be called a shortcut, it would be called a route'. THE RITUAL (2017) dir. David Bruckner

[darlingandmreames]

The Ritual brain rot is setting back in, and I got thinking about the dreams they all had in the cabin that first night. We later find out Dom dreamed of his death, and it's heavily implied that's what Hutch and Phil dreamed about too. Luke is the only odd one out, having a strange dream set in the liquor store before being marked by Möder. It makes sense, of course, that Luke didn't dream of his death- he's chosen by Möder and is the only one not to die by the end, so of course his dream was different.

Except it wasn't. Not really.

The liquor store robbery, Rob's death, Luke's freezing- all of it irrevocably changed who Luke is as a person. His world is shattered that night, and his sense of his self is shattered along with it. Luke isn't the same person after the robbery and no matter what he does, he can never go back to being that person again. That person is gone. Dead. Nothing more than a memory for Luke to mourn alongside his friend as he tries to pick the pieces back up. His friends dream of their final moments at the hands of Möder, but Luke- Luke dreams of his final moments as the person he used to be.

All four friends dream of their deaths that first night in the cabin. One of them just happened to have died six months before

[jayvrontio]

I’ve recently rewatched a movie called The Ritual(2017) based on the book writed by Adam Nevill and I must say that I truly loved this movie!

The acting, the settings, the feeling of being trapped in those woods without having a way out. I really loved all the details and I love how from a movie of 4 guys going on a hiking trip in the mountains after one of their best friends died, went to a true real life nightmare.

I first watched this movie when I was like in 7th grade and I was a scared lil kid back then and when I watched it for the first time I shit myself from how scared I was and I coudn’t watch more of the movie, I’ve watch only like half of it. And than this year I’ve decided to give it a try and man I really fell in love with it. I even rewached it three times already.

I like how there aren’t many jumpscares and just a little bit of gore but I was really interested in the nordic mythology and for me personally this movie is very important.

I really loved the 4 main characters that ones being Luke(the main protagonist), Hutch, Dom and Phil. They are just some good ol’ university friends trying to connect again after so much time by going on a trip in the Sweden mountains to honour their dead friend Rob who was killed in a store by some robers.

Luke as I said is the main protagonist and he is the one who the movie is happening around him. He was the one who was with Rob when he was killed and he didn’t take action to save him or help him and now himself and the rest of the group blames him for what happend to Rob.

Everyone blames him exept for Hutch(the second main character) who is the leader of the group and the most closest to Luke. He is the only one who don’t blames Luke and the only one who still considers Luke his friend.

Dom is like the crybaby drama queen of the group. He is always the one with the big mounth and complains alot. He is like that one annoying friend but you still care about him beacuse you know him how he is. Dom is the one who blames Luke for what happend and that grows the tension between the group.

Phill is the character with the less characterization not having a clear personality and most of the movie being in the background. Not a big fan of this character beacuse of the lack of personality he has and beacuse he had so much potential to have a good role in the group instead of just being there.

I won’t get too much into the details since I want to create separate posts for my review or discussing about this movie since this might be my new hyperfixation for a while 🤷‍♂️

I’ll just talk more about it and maybe starting doing some fanarts of it since I wanted to do that since my first rewatched of it.

I wanna buy the book as well to read it beacuse now I wanna consume as much as I can from this series, movies, books, youtube videos, theories, fanarts, fanfics ANYTHING.

I know not many people are interested in this movie anymore but I’ll still create these posts maybe, maybe someone who still likes this movie in 2023 will discover my blog :,)

So that’s it for now, I’ll continue posting stuff about the ritual for a while since I have this hyperfixation for two weeks already and it doesn’t wanna stop.

For now have these gifs I created from the movie they might contain spoilers. Sorry for the bad quitality I’ve made them on my phone 💀

I have more gifs which I wanna post but Tumblr doesn’t allow me to have more than 10 in one post so for the rest of the gifs I’ll just post will be these ones I have of my most favorite character from this movie

✨HUTCH✨

He is such a goof ball and a sweetheart! Plus I really love his actor Rob James Collier

[atorionsbelt]

this is what watching ted lasso is like whenever both roy and jamie are onscreen btw

[horygory]

Haxan (1922)

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was in a hedge maze with the Mario cast and they were performing a ritual to become freaky flesh things. Most of them left to kill an old man who interrupted them, and I was left with Luigi and Daisy who were screaming in horror and pain at what was happening.