To be reductive, The Ritual is a blokey Blair Witch without the shaky-cam, but it benefits enormously from a strong quartet of Brit actors led by the effectively-reliable Rafe Spall, and an effective back story that drives the friends' relationship and starts the film with a brutal and compelling initiating event. It is a straightforward woods-based horror that does what it says on the tin and little more, but it does it well in all departments, although it would not bear or need a repeat viewing.
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