Product: The Descent (Original Unrated Cut) [Blu-ray] (2006)
Rating: 4.0
(No) Delivery?
With its nods to Deliverance and explicit allusions to Carrie, this all girl film plays out the possible ramifications of 70s action, science fiction films (Alien), and horror films (Texas Chainsaw Massacre) when there are only final girls. In both endings there appears to be no way out: once you get through the bloody mess of delivery, you 're just going to be eaten alive by "bloody" Life. the cave, at turns bloody, dusty, and a tight fit ("push.. forward" is aline of dialogue), the film seems to rework the dysfunctional relationship between mother and daughter in Carrie into a sisterly relationship between woman giving birth and her mid-wife friends. There's a "we're not Laura Croft" line at the beginning, but the macha (Sp? of feminine macho--machette?) or maybe just butch Burt Reynoldsish character turns out to be a bad sister and delivers her friends into the claws and biting mouths of fiends, all of whom look like the National Inquirer's bat boy, To its credit, the film refuses to sort out the gender confusion it introduces, and the dead are forgotten or their memory the occasion of a meaningless revenge. A good soundtrack.