Film: The Descent
Discussion
Don't want to sound like a wuss but I watched this film last night and it scared the crap outa me! I had to have a cup of tea to settle my nerves.
I thought it was a very good film. set up the characters nicley and was excellent story telling until it turned into a more formulaic horror at the end. the beginging was also very disturbing.
If you like a bit of horror check this out. Quite different from your usual hollywood stuff.
>> Edited by pesty on Sunday 12th February 17:40
I thought it was a very good film. set up the characters nicley and was excellent story telling until it turned into a more formulaic horror at the end. the beginging was also very disturbing.
If you like a bit of horror check this out. Quite different from your usual hollywood stuff.
>> Edited by pesty on Sunday 12th February 17:40
rich 36 said:
without GGA,
whats the synopsis,
love a good story
Good story for a horror its not oscar material
I think it was more the way the story was set up didnt just go straight into full on horror mode. yes once all goes tits up it does get a bit predictable but with some nice touches and I agree the enemy is a little inconsistant. Its from the same guy who made Dog Soldiers and it does resemble that film in some ways.
The gist
"After a tragic accident, six friends reunite for a caving expedition. Their adventure soon goes horribly wrong when a collapse traps them deep underground a As their friendships deteriorate, they find themselves in a desperate struggle to survive."
rich 36 said:
without GGA,
whats the synopsis,
love a good story
Women climb into cave, scary and jumpy things happen.
I thought it was great, jumped a few times. My girlfriend with a much lower tolerance for the sudden scary bits nearly had to be prised off the ceiling.
Top quality film, as opposed to "the cave" which was released at about the same time with a very similar overall plot, but was utterly shite...
blindswelledrat said:
Good film spoiled by an unneccesary and rather stupid ending IMHO
Now I liked the ending. trying not to give anything away....
throughtout the film these things were happening to her and at the end it left it nice and vague no happy or sad ending. its up to you to decide what happens
Its jumpy but not scarey. Modern day "horrors" just do not have the effect of the old horrors that had to concentrate on sh1tting you up psychologically rather than with special effects that just made me laugh. When the creatures are revealed in the descent it didn't give me the creeps of horror films. What was scarey was the jumps that the descent gave you in a proper "I've dropped the ashtray on the floor" way. Cos I did. Drop the ashtray that is.
Thats what I thought but upon discussing it with other people they claimed it was quite clear that one of the endings was simply her dreaming/hallucinating and it was left in no doubt as to the actual ending i.e. it wasn't open to interpretation according to them (being rather vague to avoid giving it away too)
No sorry it is utter mince.
Went to see it with an ex, and spent half the night having more fun watching her hide away under my armpit
Anyway from the start I thought 'oh this might be quite good', however i was proved wrong.
As soon as the 'Monsters' are revealed, the whole fright thing has gone from the movie. (would have been better leaving them unseen for a bit longer).
Also when the frail, emotionally wreaked woman, turn into the female equivilent of The Terminator or Rambo...I let out a laugh in the cinema (Never thought I would ever do this, but it truely was a pathetic bit of screen play).
It was the worst movie that I watched in 2005, it was really that bad.
Went to see it with an ex, and spent half the night having more fun watching her hide away under my armpit
Anyway from the start I thought 'oh this might be quite good', however i was proved wrong.
As soon as the 'Monsters' are revealed, the whole fright thing has gone from the movie. (would have been better leaving them unseen for a bit longer).
Also when the frail, emotionally wreaked woman, turn into the female equivilent of The Terminator or Rambo...I let out a laugh in the cinema (Never thought I would ever do this, but it truely was a pathetic bit of screen play).
It was the worst movie that I watched in 2005, it was really that bad.
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