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The Crawling Eye slithers into THE DESCENT!!!

I saw this ages ago. Ain't It Slow News, this is. by Anchoriite	Jan 28th, 2006 01:20:08 PM
Gah
The Cave.. by HolyCalamity	Jan 28th, 2006 01:35:39 PM
I just say it, while it's not a good film, I don't think it was terrible. Plus the dvd transfer is great, glad some are utilizing HD. COLE HAUSER ROCKS!
I'm a dick.. by HolyCalamity	Jan 28th, 2006 01:36:21 PM
just SAW it, not Say it...
It's damn good but you NEED surround sound. by DavidCamp	Jan 28th, 2006 01:53:37 PM
Big TV, surround sound, region 2 DVD. I recommend everyone unable to see the movie in cinemas to try as best as possible to replicate the experience at home. Surround-sound is ESSENTIAL to fully appreciate what Neil Marshall has done. The horror mostly comes through the breathtaking sound work. It's a shame nobody has seen the picture, because the SFX are academy-award calibre. Did I mention it's pretty fucking scary?
Is this getting released in theaters here or just DVD. I'm c by modlight	Jan 28th, 2006 01:57:14 PM

This isn't as good as all that by performingmonkey	Jan 28th, 2006 02:14:02 PM
OK, if you want a movie to make you jump out of your seat at the theater then this is that movie. However, those moments only come due to sudden loud noise or a quick cut or something, nothing really inspiring or clever. The difference with this movie is that it's British and it isn't even trying to be American, which is refreshing. Ridley Scott's Alien also worked in this way. A space movie hot on the heels of Star Wars and it was a million miles away from it. Not that The Descent comes close to Alien, but a lot of the movie plays like the Tom Skerrit shaft sequence. Claustrophobia, low lighting, not knowing where the scare is going to come from. Where The Descent fails IMO is that there's no satisfying conclusion for any of the characters. They probably realised this so then gave the end that twist that leaves you wondering what actually happened. But there's no excuse for how these women turn into fucking maniacs. And the creatures are lame, and are way too generic. The sound design is literally stolen from Predator and Alien, yet these look more like men running around covered in any old crap the crew could find. I don't know...it's OK to watch once, but then the second time is without the scares so what's the point?
How the hell is this movie fooling everybody? by pfizzle	Jan 28th, 2006 02:19:08 PM
Am I the only one who saw through the unrealistically attractive cast? The characters are so incredibly unbelievable and one dimensional. There isn't a single scare in the movie that doesn't come from some kind of simple, negative-space jolt. The editing is too tight to ever fully let you get into the movie. And who the fuck would ever believe that some dumb, amateur adventurist chic from the UK would know the exact location of an otherwise completely unknown and unexplored cave in the backwoods of South Carolina?
Karloff..karloff..he's not fit to smell my shit!! by BankyEdwards2309	Jan 28th, 2006 02:20:27 PM
Fantastic flick this. NO star actors trying to steal the lime light off the rest of the cast, no over the top yanks saying cheesey 'we gotta get outta here,goddamit' type lines. And no hairy arsed blokes minus their shirts trying to weave a love story into the mix. It's just runs along, does it's thing, then goes home. Of course it's British - we always make stuff first and the best and then just wait for the Yanks to come along and try and imitate it and make a complete fuck up of it.
The Crawling Eye remake by pencil-man	Jan 28th, 2006 02:27:27 PM
I'd watch that one...
x gene? by MrD	Jan 28th, 2006 02:29:27 PM
Unless this is set in the Marvel Universe, I think you mean Y chromosome.
Why can't by Turd Furgeson	Jan 28th, 2006 03:29:41 PM
Why can't we just get an old fashioned horror film? Fuck "SCREAM" for opening the door to the last 10 years of some of the worst horror films I have ever seen... Fucking stupid pieces of shit.
I hated Dog Soldiers, but i loved The Descent by pokadoo	Jan 28th, 2006 03:41:22 PM
It's like having a bunch of Ripley's stuck down a hole and then infecting them with that virus from 28 Days Later. Hell, it even has a thumb-eye interface, like in 28. Go see, if you wanna see a real horror film, that's both tense AND gory!
I watched it in a dogshit transfer that was about 3 inches wide by RezE11even	Jan 28th, 2006 03:46:30 PM
And I literally fucking THREW my computer across the room. It's scary, fuckers. I couldn't make out all the dialogue and half the shots were blurry, so I couldn't really tell you the story aspects of the different women. Or that end with the cake.
Not bad... by cagirl	Jan 28th, 2006 03:54:10 PM
"Which can explain how dreck like Cry-Wolf, Venom, Darkness, They, Darkness Falls, etc
I didn't like this film. by RowanM	Jan 28th, 2006 04:24:37 PM
I had a little alcohol and I tried, but I wasn't scared.
Dog Soldiers suffered hard for all the over-hype it received on by chickychow	Jan 28th, 2006 05:02:42 PM
thought it was barely mediocre... that said this seems like it might be fun.
Is The Descent a good movie? No. by judderman	Jan 28th, 2006 05:30:30 PM
But it is a very good scary movie, which is all it sets out to be.
Descent is great..... by Jarek	Jan 28th, 2006 05:30:35 PM
I've seen it 5 times since I first watched it almost 8 months ago, and it's still a very well made horror film in my mind.
Amen performingmonkey! by Edward Brock	Jan 28th, 2006 05:31:15 PM
Decent but nothing special, really. The creatures were kinda lame. Looked like Gollum gone cannibal.
Saw it last summer. by Rowley Birkin QC	Jan 28th, 2006 06:09:05 PM
Trust me, it's not worth waiting for.
And comparing that cast of simpering twits to Ripley... by Rowley Birkin QC	Jan 28th, 2006 06:29:56 PM
is a huge insult to Sigourney Weaver. Fucking ludicrous over-hype.
Don't believe the buzz-kill.. by tmifune78	Jan 28th, 2006 07:46:53 PM
Ignore all the jackasses trying to say this isn't a great film. It's a streamlined, balls to the walls, horror-action film with a great concept and even better execution. It does need to be watched in 5.1, though, to get the full effect. I don't think anyone is saying this is the second coming of Aliens but compared to the shit coming down the horror pipe recently....
"Guilt drives Juno (Natalie Jackson Mendoza) to America and sorr by Shan	Jan 28th, 2006 08:03:23 PM
Might want to fix that ...
Phillips DVP642 + Amazon.co.uk = Old News by scrivener	Jan 28th, 2006 10:37:09 PM
Seriously folks, just pick up a region free DVD player and you can import everything you want from Amazon UK. I've had The Descent on DVD for a couple months already (I also had Switchblade Romance on DVD for almost a year before High Tension was released here) and I recieved my copy of Wolf Creek two weeks ago. Another benefit of importing is you don't wind up seeing/owning the pussified censored US cuts (Studios often recut movies for their US release). Getting imports from the UK is as difficult as a point and click these days - take advantage of it. I'd also remind you all - Delicatessen has never even seen a domestic DVD release. Just one of many excellent films you can only get from our neighbors overseas.
The best horror film in years. by The Wrong Guy	Jan 29th, 2006 01:34:30 AM
The Descent is brilliant- saw it yesterday. It's like a wonderfully eclectic mix of Cliffhanger, Pitch Black and Blair Witch. Only much, much better than all those movies. Highly recommended.
See this knowing as little as possible about it... by ribbitking	Jan 29th, 2006 01:45:25 AM
I freaking loved it, but i'm not sure how my experience would have been had i see it with the way it might be marketed when it comes to usa.
Lasting impression by colleague76	Jan 29th, 2006 03:53:29 AM
Im one of the lucky ones who saw this last year.This movie will stay with you for a very long time after you leave the cinema. Thank christ for the non Disney ending.
"News". by SalvatoreGravano	Jan 29th, 2006 05:09:43 AM
This dull and unoriginal "adaptation" of the "cave devil" hoax has been out on DVD for months. What's next, a "Phantom Menace" review?
old news... by Wyrdy the Gerbil	Jan 29th, 2006 05:29:05 AM
For fucks sake wake up morons just how is this "old news" ..to all the pisshead Brits(and a few others) whining i saw this 8 months ago and its so yesterday.. "get a life wankers the film was`nt even been released in the US yet".... so American site,new release,not fucking old news ..plonkers
Avoid this movie!-- -- - by dahauk	Jan 29th, 2006 08:59:24 AM
Thinking this was a film version of Jeff Long's 'The Descent' novel I watched this movie. It apparently hasn't anything to do with the book of the same name which is about a group of cave explorers discovering a underground race of violent creatures/beings, complete with vast subterranian cities. This film was truly a waste of my hour and a half. Too darkly lit ( know it was supposedly in dark caves lit only by available light, but common, it's a fraggin movie, not an audio production--we need to actually SEE stuff), too much action covered in quick, blurry cuts, scrawny naked actors with rubber ears and false teeth that look like Golumn/Nosferatu combined jumping out at actresses in dark tunnels. I believe that what you don't see can sometimes be scarier than what's seen, under the right staging, but there's nothin here folks except dark, blurry shots of something screaming, a bit of shouting and grunting,lots of cheap shot shockers and some juicy sound effects. Do yourself a real favor, seek out the book instead. There, i've saved you a few bucks you would've been pissed you'd spent. Now give me a dollar.
A recent Empire movie poll of the top 201 movies of all time (vo by DirkD13"	Jan 29th, 2006 11:17:25 AM

Jeff Long's book "The Descent" and this movie co-incidentall by Shan	Jan 29th, 2006 07:56:10 PM
Just in case there's anyone who needs any clarification.
top movie by Fortunesfool	Jan 30th, 2006 03:14:35 AM
and one of the best car crashes since meet Joe Black.
I think it is clear people like Pfizzel above by elab49	Jan 30th, 2006 03:19:46 AM
just didn't bother following the film. She didn't just come across it by walking around and falling in. And it was by a tourist route - even the review mentions that. But the reviewer didn't pick up the regularity of their annual get togethers either. Then again, as they are wrong on Dog Soldiers too....
this move was dull, disjointed and (did I mention?) dull by CrispyOne	Jan 30th, 2006 04:51:07 AM

Repeat Viewing by Spazwankle	Jan 30th, 2006 06:46:33 AM
I saw this at the cinema and thought it was very enjoyable, but when I got round to buying it on DVD a few months later, I didn't feel quite the same. It does have some very good scares, but on repeat viewing when you know when everything is going to happen, there isn't much else to hold the film together. Great shocks for first time viewing, but lacking much else in story and character department etc. for second viewing.
performing monkey... by mike_n	Jan 30th, 2006 10:11:33 AM
Hits the nail on the head wih this film. Very run of the mill. Nothing but "BOO!" scares of the generic cave monsters appearing out of the darkness. Was sorely disappointed with this film after watching "Dog Soldiers".

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