neckspike

contemplating a crab's immortality


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watching The Descent in 2006, age 20: This is a movie about how you never know... what lurks... in the dark... in the depths of the Earth

watching The Descent in 2024, age 38: This is a movie about how when a group of people has let you down and lost your trust in the mundane world, do not override your misgivings to go on a risky adventure with them, because it will not be a bonding experience, it will be a living hell


Also, I had remembered this as one of those movies that only barely shows you the monsters, but that's wrong, you see plenty of them. Unfortunately. The Descent has A+ set design, the caves were built from scratch and they look gorgeously realistic and atmospheric, but the creature design is more of a C+. The cave monsters kinda just read as pale muscley dudes with Nosferatu faces.

The pure form of this movie has the cave itself as the enemy without needing oogie-boogies, but, like the pure form of Saw that never cuts away from the two men in the bathroom, I realize that would be very hard to write and perform in a way that stays interesting for 100 minutes. So okay. But maybe they should have been kept a little deeper in the shadows, or else designed to obscure their human features more thoroughly, because the combination of low light and non-extreme makeup cancels out to create an impression of "that is a guy."


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