Claustrophobes beware! Whilst the Descent is a perfectly good horror it is the way that you feel the tight spaces in the rocks, squeezing through spaces only just big enough to fit through hundreds of metres below the surface that is it’s greatest aspect. There are no big surprises here just a very well filmed film. You could do much worse!
Synopsis: A group of friends go caving in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. And rather than stick to the charted caves, the leader takes them into uncharted caves in the hope of discovering them. That was what you call a massive error of judgement. Soon they are further than they hoped and the route back is blocked, and to make matters worse there is something else down there.
I hate to admit it but I found this film bloody scary! But then I was sat in the front row at the cinema and a little drunk! The scariest part of this film was when one of the women was panning right with the camera and one of those 'things' was just stood there!!
ReplyDeleteThe caving was far more scary than the monsters, who were a bit rubish really. Especially when they were crawling through the tunnel with the water. I would have loved to experience the atmosphere in the cinema for those parts.
ReplyDeleteIn the cinema the atmosphere was super tense! There was people walking out because they were freaked out! :)
ReplyDeleteSaw an interview with the director and all of the caving scenes are filmed in a studio, but he made sure that the only light was the light from their head-lights, flares, glow sticks, etc. I think that's what really creates the atmosphere.
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