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Directed by | David Bruckner |
Screenplay by | Joe Barton |
Based on | The Ritual by Adam Nevill |
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Cinematography | Andrew Shulkind |
Edited by | Mark Towns |
Music by | Ben Lovett |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Box office | $1.3–1.6 million[1][2] |
The Ritual is a 2017 British supernatural folk horror film directed by David Bruckner and written by Joe Barton. Based on the 2011 novel of the same name by Adam Nevill, the film stars Rafe Spall, Arsher Ali, Robert James-Collier, and Sam Troughton as four friends on a hiking trip through a Swedish old-growth forest, where they encounter an ancient evil presence.
Following its world premiere at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival on 8 September, The Ritual was released by eOne in the United Kingdom on 13 October.