Well a movie from 2005, not something most people would be after but since I do watch content and read on a daily bases, even during the past month where I have been working a couple of things to balance my time and been able to be more consistent on Hive, I get content refer all the time either by friends online or any other content related service, The Descent (2005) is one of them that kept coming up after I saw Heretic (2024). A very very very dark movie visually, there is a huge part of the movie that is all pitch black and not much to see so this is one that has to be watch in the highest resolution you could, in fact I started watching on a regular 1080p release and had to find a better Blue Ray release to appreciate it better.
- IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435625/
- Platform: AppleTV+
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The movie develops around three main characters, those are Sarah, Juno and Beth who enjoy extreme sports and adventures, the first scene is the three of them doing rafting while Sarah's husband Paul and her daughter Jessica watch from the shore, tragedy strikes almost immediately when Sarah have a big lost during a car crash, both her husband and daughter dies so she felt have very little to live for until she starts getting back into this kinda of extreme adventures with a new group of women, still Juno and Beth on it but there has been some distance between them after the accident, specially Juno but they seem to want to get back to how things were before.
It all goes south when they start to loose their gear and face a huge challenge on moving from one cavern to another on a terrain that nobody has seen or explore before, at least that is what they though until they start finding climbing that might be 100 years old or at least that's the expression they use in one scene. This last idea makes me think every other monster they find on the caverns are a group of humans that got lost and eventually start evolving to adapt living in this caverns, its a very sci fi extreme though but not impossible, so the hunt begins and friendships are destroy as the group of women starts despairing.
The cast delivers some seriously impressive performance that make the horror feel real, I say this because first its not easy at all to make close environment movies work out with very few characters but this movie goes to the extreme into this concept and I still kept watching and interested on what was going to happen next and how a conflict between Sarah and Juno start growing.
I could tell how the audience could be divided at watching this movie since its very unreal something like this would ever happen, specially finding a creature close to Gollum from LOTR down there but this is not a documentary or a story based on life events so any crazy story that is entertaining is welcome I would say.
I could tell how this movie might be inspired or at least has similarities with other horror movies but one aspect that makes it so twisted is the ending, there is a UK and US version of the movie, both with different ending. On the US theatrical release Sarah manage to escape from the caves, get to one of their cars and drive away so she lives. On the UK version things are more darker and I had to look for this version online since I had no clue, I watch the US version first but on this other version Sarah had a dream or hallucination of escaping, she was still at the caves trapped underground in that situation she would most likely die for sure as the monsters keep getting closer to her. If I had watch the UK version I think the movie would have been so much better, the reason why I say this is because not very often there are movies with such a dark ending, instead of ending with Sarah as the hero or survivor, its all darkness, doom and hopelessness, this is the kind of ending that makes you think and say out loud WTF!!!!
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