10 Terrifying Horror Movies Set During Daylight

One of the best underrated 00s horror flicks out there, The Ruins takes all the fun of a Mexican holiday adventure and intertwines it with a creeping evil long locked away in an archeological site. And intertwines is precisely the right word, considering that these titular ruins aren't afraid to really dig into the group that thought they'd be digging it - with sentient vines causing all sorts of havoc under the blistering South American sun. It's scarier than it sounds, honest.

The Ruins perfectly balances between a lush, verdant exterior where our central gang are trapped by angry locals, and a dingy, dungeon-like interior, contrasting the horrors of humanity against the horrors of nature with every switch between the two.

Far better than it has right to be for a simple 'teen holiday gone wrong' premise, The Ruins makes use of its locale to great effect, and it's the blazing sunshine of an unknown, tropical, once beautiful destination that helps subvert expectations.