[2] The film opens with a man (Rio Dewanto) waking up buried in a shallow grave in the middle of a forest with no recollection of what happened to him.
[3] Shooting took place in Mount Pancar in Sentul, West Java, across 10 days in November 2011.
It was also selected for screening at the 2012 South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, United States.
Anton Bitel of Little White Lies gave Ritual a positive review, calling the narrative "disorienting" with an ending that "makes all the disparate elements in the film cohere in an ingenious, unsettling manner".
[6] In a lukewarm review, Cornila Desyana of Tempo called the film "absurd" and criticized the lack of dialogues even for the lead character.