Product: The Descent (Original Unrated Cut) [Blu-ray] (2006)
Rating: 5.0
Must Give Credit Where Credit is Due
I wont go into what the movie is about because obviously you have read the other reviews and or have seen the movie itself. Six women, down into the depth of the earth. Now I am a big horror fan in my own right. I like movies that can take cliches and rework them into something interesting and phasing. This movie is one of those kind of movies. Then again, this is being shown to us by the same people who brought us Saw and Hostel--two sets of films I really don't care for because I go to a movie to be scared, not to watch torture scenes that I'm well aware of after studying such incidents as the Holocaust. But I digress. What I like about this movie is that, unlike Cave, this movie really does make you feel claustrophobic. You really do think you are down there, with the women, at least as private observers, and that what they feel you feel. Fear. Uncertainty. Anger. Distrust. I have to give the women of this film high marks. They knew how to take six women characters and really build upon them better than you would tend to think (I mean really, it seems that in most horror movies women are running around screaming blah blah blah, but in this film, they know how to fight back against each other and the monsters). The violence is visceral and nasty, but realistic and coordinated. The monsters, whatever they were, were mean and unnameable. I will be intrigued to see how this film will look when it comes out on DVD and, like so many movies, will be unrated. If you have a day off I would suggest to go out and see this film.