After a mutual friend is killed in a store robbery, four friends get together to go an adventure that they all were planning before their friend's death. Their journey takes them on some hiking trails in the wilds of Sweden where they intend to enjoy some buddy time and pay tribute to their lost friend. Things get crazy when they decide on taking a shortcut into the woods after one of their friends hurts his leg. Once in the woods, they find themselves lost and at the mercy of some unknown threat that is stalking them and pitting them against one another. Along the way one of the members face survivors guilt that seems to manifest stronger as the movie progresses. In many respects, The Ritual plays on a theme similar to that of Deliverance as well as The Descent. Both films center on a group of friends who find their friendship challenged when they get lost and face a threat in the woods. The Ritual does make efficient use of the wooded scenery that adds significantly to the element of fear in much the way that The Blair Witch Project did two decades ago.
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