Re: The Descent
 

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?)