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The Descent
Aug. 5th, 2006 12:16 pmLast night I met up with Kentucky's resident Scotsman Stewart and his wonderful hubby Dave for dinner and a movie. We hit one of the new bar/grill places here in Corbin called Buckners. Apparently, it was redneck bear night because there were hotties everywhere, mostly of the rugged farmboy variety. Sigh.. I wish I had taken my camera.
Natalie Mendoza as Juno in The Descent
After dinner, we caught an evening showing of The Descent. The movie centers on a group of female thrill-seekers who plan a caving trip to cheer up one of their members who lost her family in a car accident. However, things go wrong when the leader of the group, Juno, decides to change from a mapped cave to an unknown one for kicks without telling the rest of the ladies.
As the group decends into the caves, a cave-in seals off their path. While searching for another way out, they realize that there is something else living in the caverns, something that eats animals.. and people.
There are some truly creepy moments in this movie and not all monster-related. If you have a fear of enclosed places, this movie will make you squirm as it did me. While I'm not highly claustrophobic, the idea of crawling through a small tunnel gives me the heebie-jeebies (braces for comment on use of "heebie-jeebies" and for Freudian assessments of the small tunnel thing). There are several instances in the movie that also made me jump. The gore factor is relatively high, but not to the point of movies like Hostel.
The movie is full of British women. There is only one American in the bunch and she's the "leader." The movie is set in the Appalachian Mountains, so there is a good chance the monsters they find are just some inbred hilbilly folks (joke). One thing that seemed to make me laugh a bit is that these are all experience cavers and thrill-seekers, but they seem to fall apart under duress, screaming and fussing like.. well.. little girls. Just a point to make, not a criticism of the movie.
Did I enjoy the movie? Yes, it made me cringe in places.
Would I see it again? I think so.
Buy the DVD? Maybe if it was on sale.
Natalie Mendoza as Juno in The Descent
After dinner, we caught an evening showing of The Descent. The movie centers on a group of female thrill-seekers who plan a caving trip to cheer up one of their members who lost her family in a car accident. However, things go wrong when the leader of the group, Juno, decides to change from a mapped cave to an unknown one for kicks without telling the rest of the ladies.
As the group decends into the caves, a cave-in seals off their path. While searching for another way out, they realize that there is something else living in the caverns, something that eats animals.. and people.
There are some truly creepy moments in this movie and not all monster-related. If you have a fear of enclosed places, this movie will make you squirm as it did me. While I'm not highly claustrophobic, the idea of crawling through a small tunnel gives me the heebie-jeebies (braces for comment on use of "heebie-jeebies" and for Freudian assessments of the small tunnel thing). There are several instances in the movie that also made me jump. The gore factor is relatively high, but not to the point of movies like Hostel.
The movie is full of British women. There is only one American in the bunch and she's the "leader." The movie is set in the Appalachian Mountains, so there is a good chance the monsters they find are just some inbred hilbilly folks (joke). One thing that seemed to make me laugh a bit is that these are all experience cavers and thrill-seekers, but they seem to fall apart under duress, screaming and fussing like.. well.. little girls. Just a point to make, not a criticism of the movie.
Did I enjoy the movie? Yes, it made me cringe in places.
Would I see it again? I think so.
Buy the DVD? Maybe if it was on sale.
