Product: The Descent (Original Unrated Cut) [Blu-ray] (2006)
Rating: 1.0
Another gory mediocrity
I'm not sure why I gave this movie a chance in the first place. I suppose wasting the money to rent it is my own fault, since I got exactly what I anticipated: a lot of bloodshed, wannabe giallo, and some retarded attempts at echoing other mediocre horror movies ("The Grudge", etc).When I read about the "cave creatures" that appear in the film (some of the only believable characters cause they don't talk too much, and make no attempts at fake on again off again foreign accents) I was pretty certain it would fail, and it took two hours of irritating alpha cave girls getting cannibalized by the most hilarious looking pointy-eared sorry a** excuses for monsters to convince me.People talk about an "overwhelming mood of claustrophobia", as though some new Hitchcock decided to go for broke and make a B horror movie in his spare time. I'm claustrophobic, and I the only air I was gasping for watching this piece of sadistic trash was estrogen free oxygen.Someone mentioned Dario Argento in relation to this movie. Please, no. His misogyny was a little less subtle and easier to take because he never bothered to make characters out of the women he slaughtered on camera. I find it kind of disturbing that people enjoy watching this sort of thing and write rave reviews about it. If all these chicks had died because they went insane and we never got a clear picture of the creatures that would be one thing, but you're telling me you enjoy watching this?The only remotely effective part of this ludicrous mess is the end. And that's fitting, ironically, since you'll want it to end. Disgusting.