{"id":2151,"date":"2006-08-10T09:20:58","date_gmt":"2006-08-10T14:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2006-08-10T09:24:01","modified_gmt":"2006-08-10T14:24:01","slug":"the-descent-a-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=2151","title":{"rendered":"The Descent: A Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Descent\" alt=\"The Descent\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/images\/06267.jpg?w=660\" \/><br \/>\nSix women go caving. Six women get trap by a cave-in. Six women discover they are not alone in the dark. Repeat: In the dark.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedescentfilm.com\/\"><strong>The Descent<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; is one of the better horror films to come along in a long time. It works on quite a few levels. First, you have the relationships between the women. Everything begins good and then the tension starts once the cave-in hits. Secondly is just the fact that they are caving. It&#8217;s dark, dank and very claustrophobic down there. The feeling of unease and dread is already pretty damn high before the monsters even make their appearance. When they do (oh, man &#8230; it&#8217;s pretty cool!) that&#8217;s when all all the gore and mayhem starts. Like most other current horror films, the gore factor is pretty high in &#8220;The Descent&#8221; once it gets there. Those Crawlers are just plain nasty. A woman behind us in the theater kept squealing and gagging all through the end of the movie. Heh.<\/p>\n<p>Who will be strong or lucky enough to make it out? Well, that you just gotta find out for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Now, here&#8217;s the kicker. The version is U.S. theaters has a truncated end. It&#8217;s missing the  1 minute continuation that ends the original British version. I really hate that this was done (thanks again, Lionsgate) as the original ending fits so much better with the tone of the film. It also wraps up a plot device that just gets totally dropped in the American version. If you have seen the film and want to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=5mcKHtY6eE0\"><strong>check out the original ending<\/strong><\/a>, you can thanks to YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>As for complaints about the movie &#8230; I have a major one. There is a plot device that pits two of our women against each other. I usually find that a horror film isn&#8217;t the greatest venue for that sort of thing. I can&#8217;t honestly buy that folks would stop to hash out their differences while being chased by a pack of nasty, flesh-eating cave dwellers. This plot point is a slightly less offensive in light of the original ending but just didn&#8217;t work for me as presented in the American version.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom Line:<br \/>\nDefinitely worth checking out. It gave me the willies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six women go caving. Six women get trap by a cave-in. Six women discover they are not alone in the dark. Repeat: In the dark. &#8220;The Descent&#8221; is one of the better horror films to come along in a long time. It works on quite a few levels. First, you have the relationships between the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-yH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}