Product: The Descent (Original Unrated Cut) [Blu-ray] (2006)
Rating: 4.0
Movies like this remind me why I'm not adventurous
In the same vein as Wolf Creek and the Blair Witch Project comes another tale about what happens when you get too adventurous. A group of six female friends get together to explore what most of them believe will be a relatively benign group of caves in North Carolina. They're getting together for the first time a year after one of them, Sarah, lost her husband and daughter in a car accident. The ladies feel that if they get back to their adventuresome ways maybe Sarah can learn to forget the past and start living in the present. What they don't realize is that one of the women, Juno (an athletic, no-holds-barred, go-for-it kinda chick), has decided that they won't go to the caves they'd planned to and will instead explore a group of unknown caves that aren't even charted. She's hoping that this adventure will bring them closer together and help them get a little female bonding time. What she doesn't count on is an avalanche leaving them stranded in a group of caves that no one has ever heard of, and a group of cave dwelling creepy crawlers who begin to stalk them once they're stuck.This movie was, in a word, terrifying. I screamed out loud at several points. It made me glad that when I take a vacation there are hotels and shopping involved instead of wilderness and mystery. Lions Gate has a knack for releasing disturbing thrillers about everyday people who just sought to make their lives interesting by going on an adventure, like in Wolf Creek and The Descent. All I can say is I know who to turn to the next time I'm in the mood for a scary movie. I'd definitely recommend this to the same people who enjoy those camping-trip-gone-wrong kind of thriller movies like Wolf Creek and the Blair Witch Project.