The Descent (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 26, 2006
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Shauna Macdonald & Natalie Mendoza | |
Performer: | Alex Reid, Saskia Mulder, Nora-Jane Noone, MyAnna Buring, Oliver Milburn & Molly Kayll | |
Directed by | Neil Marshall | |
Edited by | Jon Harris | |
Screenwriting by | Neil Marshall | |
Composition by | David Julyan | |
Produced by | Christian Colson | |
Director of Photography: | Sam McCurdy |
Entertainment Reviews:
This intermittently effective UK horror thriller carefully establishes the psychological relationships among the women, then squanders this calibrated and generally plausible setup with a series of crude, implausible, and scattershot horror effects.
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Chicago Reader
3 stars out of 5 -- Prepare to be scared senseless, and then, when you think you have it figured, your certainty will be shaken by scenes meant to scare you even more.
Rolling Stone
Rating: 3.5/5 --
The film draws on some of horror's most memorable scenarios.
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Sydney Morning Herald
Made with a connoisseur's love of muck, blood, inky darkness, and equal parts elegance and ewwww, THE DESCENT raises the level of the post-BLAIR WITCH, post-OPEN WATER horror game. -- Grade: A-
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 4/5 --
A smart, fresh and exhilarating genre movie.
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The List
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Although Neil Marshall's attempt to justify the U.S. ending is admirable, the original ending is the only way out - providing a chilling bookend to a motif and suggesting what seems like cerulean-tinged peace is actually the solitary solace of madness.
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The Film Yap
Rating: 4/5 --
Tense, gory and masterfully malevolent.
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Total Film
Product Description:
THE DESCENT, a claustrophobic and intense British horror film from Neil Marshall (DOG SOLDIERS), follows six courageous young women who venture down a deep, deep cavern in the Appalachian Mountain range. They are expert rafters and rock climbers--particularly the leader, Juno (Natalie Mendoza), and Sarah (Shauna Macdonald), who is still getting over the death of her husband and daughter the year before. Any healing and bonding is scuttled fast, however, once a cave-in cuts off their return route, forcing them deeper down into the darkness, their flashlight batteries dwindling with every wasted minute. The horror builds, the passageways get tighter and tighter, and then Sarah thinks she have seen something moving in the distance, something that looks almost human....
To give away any more would be a crime, but let's just say horror film lovers should find plenty to love here: there's gallons of gore, jump-in-your-seat shocks, and sly references to other films. The women characters are strongly etched, and excellent editing makes it possible to always know what's happening to whom, even as the flashlights are going out, the darkness is moving in, and the unholy screams are echoing off the cavern walls.
To give away any more would be a crime, but let's just say horror film lovers should find plenty to love here: there's gallons of gore, jump-in-your-seat shocks, and sly references to other films. The women characters are strongly etched, and excellent editing makes it possible to always know what's happening to whom, even as the flashlights are going out, the darkness is moving in, and the unholy screams are echoing off the cavern walls.
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- Sales Rank: 23,322
- UPC: 031398205937
- Shipping Weight: 0.19/lbs (approx)
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