6th Night of Horrors The Descent

  Tonight I was going to watch a horror I never saw before but changed my mine after playing a little bit of Silent Hill Downpour. Why you may ask, really it just because I felt that The Descent sets a great mood for a subtle horror film and than just throws it out the window for something that may have work in another film but just ends up cheapening itself`s. But a little more on that in a bit.

   The Descent starts off with one of the main characters Sarah being involved in a gruesome car accident that claims their lives, a year later she and the five other main characters(technicality the only characters) go spelunking in the US. It is later reveled that the cave they go to is uncharted which was intentionally done by the character Juno and it soon is reveled that cave is home to monstrous cannibals dubbed crawlers. The crawlers kill three of the characters Holly,Sam,and Rebecca while another character Beth is accidentally fatally wounded by Juno and later mercy killed by Sarah who later wounds and leaves Juno to be killed by crawlers after learning what she did to Beth(as well as realizing she had an affair with her dead husband) because that`s the normal thing to do. Sarah later escapes where we learn she hallucinated the ending and is still in the cave with the crawlers descending upon her.

  My biggest problem with this film are the crawlers I fell they were completely pointless because the movie has some great tense moments involving spelunking which I though we`re great and had wish the whole movie was just that. This is what I meant by subtle horror, several people seem to think horror is slashers,monsters, jump scares, and blood(for some reason) and seem to forget horror can come just from atmosphere which was another I loved about Cube. Now something like Silent Hill can do both but they use sounds and sights to create tension which sometimes involve the monster while The Descent is more about feelings, at least that`s how I felt maybe I`m in the minatory. Anyway decent film with great tension and some good scares but I felt the monsters were unnecessary,this is WinterDeathPeach saying peace out.