The Descent
Wednesday, August 17, 2016 10:20:13 PM | (Age Not Specified)
PART 2 here you
feel on the scene right in the cave - with the women.))), it features
all-women cast (new, but not,,but new enough - as spelunkers, very new
thus a originality), the creatures (which everyone laughs out as poor
man's version of 'ghollum troll' or some other 'fake *ss'
''costume-prosthetics''...great ''prosthetics'', like great '3D CGI', as a tool, have their place and I don't think the
'bareness' of these cave creatures should be so dismissed (''a 'naked
dude' with a 'ghollum mask'...nice..very scary.not.''). For me, the
first part is a slow build-up, and the best one, I saw this at Fantasia
in 2005, it took my breath away (No movie had done this in at least 20
years time, since the first Alien, and this movie is an homage to it
also, Mr.Marshall said that he was inspired by these great horror
movies such as the terrifying and slow potboiler Alien 1 of Mr.Scott),
I remember looking at these women fighting the Cave, fighting
themselves (friendships dissolve as they are now - each fending for
themselves), fighting death (pure survival), fighting creatures (yeah
OK they don't exist - its a 'FICTION' read that word/Calm down with the
'it doesn't make sense/it's stupid and nonsensical brainless movie'
accusation and an Excellent at that, but still they are late enough and
have a certain degree of 'fitting in', it 'could' be possible (even if
some said, these creatures would have evolved outside the cave/left
it...not necessarily, they could have evolved Inside), When they face
the pits/chasm it's utterly terrifying (to try to cross over and not
fall to their death), the cave is so mean and unforgiving. Mr.Marshall
uses important elements like coloring palette (he uses red during
deadly scenes, green in more danger-free scenes, important red flare
lighting and deep shadows blacks darkness to hide the elements and
enhance utter fear) scares (great) hate the 'jumpscare' 'boo! a flying
cat!' categorization..you do not scare someone