My guess is it’s some form of promo art, but not an actual poster; I just can’t imagine a studio saying such an ambiguous poster was all right promote their movie. Unless there’s something subtly menacing in it that I’m just not getting; to me it looks like it’s a mid-action shot of four people on a beach. Odd, since The Ruins is about a group of kids who visit an archeological dig in Mexico where they soon enter into a fight for their very lives. Where are the killer plants for God’s sake?
Carter Smith directed from a script by Scott B. Smith (no relation), who also wrote The Ruins novel (review). Dreamworks will release The Ruins in theaters on April 4th, 2008; keep it here for more info as we gather it!