The Descent

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

Remembered how it felt when I watched Halloween(age 10) and Exorcist(age 12) with this one.

OK, maybe Exorcist is pushing comparison.

SPOILER???? check with b. miller maybe.

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Very ending stupid as shit.
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[b.miller]

yeah they changed the ending for US release.. well, more like cut the ending. Brits got the proper ending... I don't think it's THAT much better but the American ending does kinda suck.


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originally, after she escapes and gets to her SUV and drives for a bit then stops and sees the dead girl she wakes up back in the cave and her kid is there with birthday cake. It gives you both a depressing she-never-gets-out vibe along with a shes-gone-completely-crazy vibe and just a hint of a maybe-there-was-never-any-monsters-it-was-just-her-killing-everyone vibe as well...

also if i remember correctly, most of the actiony gory scenes in the British cut were not so quick-cutty... not sure on this one but I remember it being a little heavier on the gore and less MTV-style with the editing whenever things really heat up.

Still, I like the movie... I recently got a chance to watch it in a cave... which was sweet.

[Tom]

Just saw this and it's by far one of the best creature horror movies in a long, long time.

[negative1]

this was basically a lamer and small scale version of '28 days later'
set in a cave ....the creatures werent scary since they were
almost ripoffs for zombies, and the ending was poorly thought
out and predictable also..

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[Tom]

This was absolutely nothing like 28 Days Later.

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

I thought more like Alien and, no, I didn't know there was a tagline somewhere along the Alien style horror. Almost had my Denny's card revoked over that idea.

I don't agree with you on the zombie bit negative1, hey first time for everything.:o More evolution or missing link than living dead, but did it scare you?

Don't even try a gay cheat shot on me as I went with my nephew who's a 6'3" pool shark bar room brawler, can fix anyone car's when they come crying type of guy. When I turned to him in theatre(10:00AM Mon. showing, we had the entire theatre to ourselves, I could've smoked from a massive bong and no one would have noticed) and said, "I'm fucking scared!". He said, "I am too bitch, go find someone else to cry to."

I was disappointed with the action scenes going so fast too. I kept thinking, damn I can't tell what the F is happening on more than two action scenes. Then again, maybe it was intentional for those moments to be so quickly paced to make it more believable(sp? it's late, I've been bad this weekend, and school starts tomorrow).

[b.miller]

this was basically a lamer and small scale version of '28 days later'
set in a cave ....the creatures werent scary since they were
almost ripoffs for zombies, and the ending was poorly thought
out and predictable also..

at least it was in color :P

[Stephen]

What happens in the shitty US ending then? I enjoyed this a lot when I saw it. Particularly the opening sequence. now that's how to set the tone for a horror movie!

[winjer]

Pretty great little film....

What really sold it for me was the fact that the most horrible, terrifying things were the very elements that had nothing to do with the

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creatures. I'm thinking a) the claustrophobia b) the leg c) the friend-on-friend murder.


Really coo...

[matt]

is this only out in the states now? :eek:

i posted about it (http://www.dirty.org/forums/showthread.php?t=421&highlight=descent) over a year ago when it was out in the uk

quality horror flick - like's been mentioned, i think the whole claustrophobia vibe added to the scariness

and if any of you non-uk dirts haven't seen neil marshall's debut film dog soldiers (http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2002/04/12/dog_soldiers_2002_review.shtml) then be sure to check that out too - very blackly funny horror flick that probably in some way inspired forthcoming movie severance (http://www.severancethemovie.co.uk/) :cool:

[adam]

Finally got around to renting this. It is great. The US DVD release has the original ending, and (I think) the uncut gore as well. It also has a bit in the special features where the writer/director talks about the different endings.

SPOILERS: I thought it was great that this was a horror movie in which the villain doesn't even show up for the first 55 minutes and they're still tense as hell. Very good. I did think the ending of her being mad would have been stronger without the hallucination of her getting to the surface. The hallucination required her to still have "sane" values - she was dreaming of being free...it would have worked a little better if it was just her straight up nuts. (Plus I have an aversion to any "it was all a dream" sequences, even if they're just a scene).

(And, once again, negative1's reviews read like free association to me. A Scanner Darkly has Keanu Reeves. What does he think he's in, The Matrix? The Descent has zombie-like creatures. What is this, 28 Days Later?)