Product: The Descent (Original Unrated Cut) [Blu-ray] (2006)
Rating: 4.0
The Descent - Amazing Book, Good Movie
I read the book and watched the movie around the same time. While the movie is good, it is actually more like a very short prologue to the book. If you liked the underground tension in the movie, the book provides a whole lot more of it. And if you like the little nasty creatures in the movie, the book gives details about what they are. Imaging these things populating the whole sub-terrain of the entire world, not just some remote cave?As for the movie itself. It's scary as hell. No doubt about that. It had me jumping all the way through and totally wired by the end. Had trouble sleeping by the end. As far as horror movies go, this is one of the best I've seen in a long time.But like most horror movies, this lacked substance, which could have existed with a little more effort and about ten more minutes of film. The acting could have been better...but this isn't really the actors faults, they did well with what they had...and the ending...what's the deal with that? At first I was thinking, "Awesome ending..." then everything switches and you're back where you were five minutes before and I'm thinking, "Well, that sucks. I should have stopped the movie where it was."All those things might have brought the flick down to 3 stars, but for sheer thrills and scares, this one overcomes its faults and gets 4 stars. If you liked the movie, do yourself a favor and read the book...though after reading the book, you'll wish the film stuck to the original plot...which doesn't feature any of the characters in the movie.-- Jeremy Robinson, author of Pulse (A Chess Team Adventure) and Kronos