MOVIE REVIEW - The Descent (2005)
Director: Neil Marshall
Starring: Shauna MacDonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid, Saskia Mulder, MyAnna Buring, Nore-Jane Noone
Sarah (MacDonald) still coming to terms with a great loss in her life deceides to go a on cave expedition in the Appalachian Mountains with 5 friends. They are led down into the dark caverns be Sarah's best friend Juno (Mendoza) who ends getting them lost and trapped two miles underground. With no obviuos way of escape they are cut off and alone, or are they?
Anyone out there who want to make horror movies should watch this and take note. This means you Hollywood. You don't need big huge budgets and big concepts to really scare people. All you need is the dark and confined spaces. The use of close camera work during the sections where the girls are crawling through tight spaces gives an unbelieveable sense of claustrophobia that it can make the viewer uneasy for them. Sound is equally good from the tight breathing of the characters to the echoes throughout the caves. All this creates a pervasive tension that can leave a viewer breathless.
This is definately not for the squeemish because once the action kicks in the final third the blood really starts to pump, fly and run all over. But even though it is grisly it feels like a nessecity to understand the horror the characters are having to go through in an attempt to survive. In fact one of the girls becomes almost feral and animal herself toward the end that she becomes part of the true horror of the events.
As this is a horror flick I am willing to overlook the bad acting as overall the script and plot manages to avoid all the cliches that are associated with the genre, making it all the more fresh.
Overall: A definate high point for UK horror films in recent years and a shining example for the whole movie industry. 8.5/10
Starring: Shauna MacDonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid, Saskia Mulder, MyAnna Buring, Nore-Jane Noone
Sarah (MacDonald) still coming to terms with a great loss in her life deceides to go a on cave expedition in the Appalachian Mountains with 5 friends. They are led down into the dark caverns be Sarah's best friend Juno (Mendoza) who ends getting them lost and trapped two miles underground. With no obviuos way of escape they are cut off and alone, or are they?
Anyone out there who want to make horror movies should watch this and take note. This means you Hollywood. You don't need big huge budgets and big concepts to really scare people. All you need is the dark and confined spaces. The use of close camera work during the sections where the girls are crawling through tight spaces gives an unbelieveable sense of claustrophobia that it can make the viewer uneasy for them. Sound is equally good from the tight breathing of the characters to the echoes throughout the caves. All this creates a pervasive tension that can leave a viewer breathless.
This is definately not for the squeemish because once the action kicks in the final third the blood really starts to pump, fly and run all over. But even though it is grisly it feels like a nessecity to understand the horror the characters are having to go through in an attempt to survive. In fact one of the girls becomes almost feral and animal herself toward the end that she becomes part of the true horror of the events.
As this is a horror flick I am willing to overlook the bad acting as overall the script and plot manages to avoid all the cliches that are associated with the genre, making it all the more fresh.
Overall: A definate high point for UK horror films in recent years and a shining example for the whole movie industry. 8.5/10
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