I usually hate horror films but...

Rating: 8/10 (8 July 2009)

this one is an exception.
I hate horror films because they're meant to be scary and they're not. Most of the horrors that came out in the 60's and 70's were brilliant, solely because it delivered scare tactics that went unseen before during that time period. As soon as the 80's rolled around and movie studios relied on the typical low budget slasher flicks, which constantly regurgitated scares that were seen many horror films before it, horror was dying. Horror films were no longer scary. This genre was revived a bit in the late 90's (I think so at least) and ever since the 2000s began, they've been down the drain once again. I honestly hate horror films with some exceptions of classics and ones that are actually entertaining and I think that there hasn't been a good horror film in 10 years (with the exception of just very few films).
The trailer for The Descent drew me in. It caught my attention like no other horror film trailer ever has and there was a part of me that felt that this could actually be a good horror film. I saw it, expecting it be to great, and I wasn't disappointed.
The film is simply brilliant, a phenomenal horror classic, and a rare gem in a world where really really bad horror remakes reign the box office. I'm sick of the Prom Night remakes and the constant torture sequels (thanks for that one Saw) and yet another Friday The 13th sequel. In a world where horrible, horrible horror films have managed to be released by money hungry and cinematically impaired studio owners, this film is unique. Why? It's actually good, really good.
It was just a grand refreshment. The horror is unique and unlike anything that I've seen before and for the first time since A Nightmare On Elm Street, I actually jumped out of my seat in fear. It offers new horror instead of grabbing remains from Halloween and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It's also a dark film, really dark. Not Saw, you have to gut someone else in order to escape dark, but bathing in blood, eating dead corpses dark. There are scenes that are grandly dark in such a great Dracula fashion, I loved it! The lack of lighting in the film and the touch of adding general fears (claustrophobia, paranoia, etc.) into the film just makes it that much better so now more people, especially horror impaired (like me) can actually get in on the scares. Never before has a horror film wowed me this much, especially one released after the year 2000. Such a rare gem and bound to become a great horror classic aired every Halloween on AMC 30 years from now. To the people who wrote and directed this film, thank you. You made me love horror again.
Don't rent this film, buy it!!!! You will not be disappointed. I give it a 10 out of 10. (an 11 out of 10 it were possible (Spinal Tap joke))