Woppum Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 God, I have never been so uncomfortable in my life during a film. I have seen alot of scary films but this one really takes the cake. If you like scary films look no further, but some people could find it a bit too much (loud noises, gore and claustrophobia). My girlfriend was shaking with tears running down her face for the second half of the film, she couldn't watch the screen, but couldn't leave either. The film was very well made, everything fitted together and you are carried without pause all the way to the end. Its hard to say more without telling you what happens. I went in without a clue of what the film was about. I think you should too! If you want to read more on the story of the review read here., but i think you should just go without knowing what to expect! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 Oooo, reckon I'll have to watch that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel Posted August 1, 2005 Report Share Posted August 1, 2005 "The Descent" is an excellent and scary novel - looks like this film cherry picked one small bit from it, based on the reviews... I'll still look for the film and watch it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woppum Posted August 1, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2005 Theres a book... Who is it written by? That could be one for the freezer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel Posted August 1, 2005 Report Share Posted August 1, 2005 OK. I personally thought it was fun - as it plays with some of our "long held dear truths". Spooky, but fun. The Descent by Jeff Long ISBN 1857989295 A global underground labyrinth of tunnels and caves lies miles below the surface of the Earth, inhabited by immensely strong and savage devil-like creatures. The world's armies respond, only to be slaughtered in the dark, but opportunities for exploitation open up for the business world. The Amazon site has this review: In a high Himalayan cave, among the death pits of Bosnia, in a newly excavated Java temple, Long's characters find out to their terror that humanity is not alone--that, as we have always really known, horned and vicious humanoids lurk in vast caverns beneath our feet. This audacious remaking of the old hollow-earth plot takes us, in no short order, to the new world regime that follows the genocidal harrowing of Hell by heavily armed, high-tech American forces. An ambitious tycoon sends an expedition of scientists, including a beautiful nun linguist and a hideously tattooed commando former prisoner of Hell, ever deeper into the unknown, among surviving, savage, horned tribes and the vast citadels of the civilizations that fell beneath the earth before ours arose. A conspiracy of scholars pursues the identity of the being known as Satan, coming up with unpalatable truths about the origins of human culture and the identity of the Turin Shroud, and are picked off one by bloody one. Long rehabilitates, madly, the novel of adventures among lost peoples--occasional clumsiness and promises of paranoid revelations on which he cannot entirely deliver fail to diminish the real achievement here; this feels like a story we have always known and dreaded. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woppum Posted August 1, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2005 I can't seem to find a on-line book store which has this book in stock. Amazon has used books from the states avalible but none new. If anyone has a look and finds copies post a link as im keep to get my mitts on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mastermofo Posted August 2, 2005 Report Share Posted August 2, 2005 am gonna try see it tonite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woppum Posted August 2, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2005 Good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woppum Posted August 2, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2005 Well it turns out the boook is discontinued. Production stopped in 2000. I have found somewhere that can try to find one for me for a min of £20. I may try that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiftyPence Posted August 7, 2005 Report Share Posted August 7, 2005 oo i might have to check this out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woppum Posted November 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2005 Right this film is out on DVD this week. It wont be the same as seeing it at the cinema but its well worth adding to your collection... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuntimeFrankie Posted November 7, 2005 Report Share Posted November 7, 2005 [ QUOTE ] I can't seem to find a on-line book store which has this book in stock. Amazon has used books from the states avalible but none new. If anyone has a look and finds copies post a link as im keep to get my mitts on it. [/ QUOTE ] Woppum, try logging on to Amazon.com, you can buy it from the Yank site, new...... The Descent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malagus Posted November 7, 2005 Report Share Posted November 7, 2005 That is one SCARY movie! first good horror ive seen in ages. the ending pi$$ed me off a bit, but it was a great film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted November 10, 2005 Report Share Posted November 10, 2005 Bought it today at Sainsburys, so as it's now just after 10pm and the wife wants to watch something else.... ....I've retired upstairs to watch it on my own. Here goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted November 10, 2005 Report Share Posted November 10, 2005 ++ ONLY READ THIS POST IF YOU HAVE ALREADY SEEN THE MOVIE ++ Right, I have a question. First class film, thoroughly enjoyed it. However, I have a question about the ending. I think I know what the scene was trying to portray, but I just want to confirm it.... She was climbing up out through the circular narrow passage right. She fell, back into the area where all the bones were. She got out, drove off, blah blah. However, after being sick... ...it cut back to the cave of bones where she was waking up, presumably having being knocked unconscious. She saw her daughter. Now I'm presuming that the scene where she got out was a DREAM? She was actually knocked out in the fall, fell back into the depths of the cavern, wasn't in an area where she could get out, dreamt of her daughter, regained consciousness, and the scene was basically saying that she was about to die as you heard the creatures coming - and presumably as her daughter had spoken to her in this particular dream it meant she was 'beckoning' her to end her woes etc? That's how I understood it anyway. She didn't get out. She was about to die. If that's the case then it's a shame. I know she had nowt to live for, but still a shame. First class movie though. One of the best I have seen this year and certainly the best horror I have seen in a long long time. It's odd too, because if you watch it on DVD and watch the timer you'll notice that the creatures don't really attack until almost an hour has gone - and the film only runs for another 30 minutes! Yet the last 30 minutes runs at such a frenetic pace that it's superb! Still felt very sorry for her losing her husband AND daughter. Ok, so the husband could have died...but the young daughter too? Ah I guess it's a sign of my age and softening! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riz Posted November 11, 2005 Report Share Posted November 11, 2005 I`ll pass..... i found the sixth sense abit too scary... Riz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mastermofo Posted November 11, 2005 Report Share Posted November 11, 2005 hahaha yeah quality film - yes spose she did die and that the last bit was a dream.....might ahve to buy this - i saw it in cinema...could have been a little more nakedness considering the entirely female cast...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woppum Posted November 17, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2005 Well i bought it on DVD too and found it a great film, but as always lost alot of the effect it had at the cinima. MrMe i though the same as you, she was a gonna! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nelson_R32 Posted January 5, 2006 Report Share Posted January 5, 2006 I saw this film a few weeks ago, it is absolutely brilliant!First class film, the only insignificant minor was that a couple of the Girls Personalities were a bit 2D and predictable, but otherwise briliant! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soapsuds Posted January 6, 2006 Report Share Posted January 6, 2006 yep - i have to agree - awesome film!! Rented this to watch on my new Home Cinema system the missus bought me for xmas!!! Sat in the room, pitch black BY MYSELF so no interruptions (wife hates horrors). Great film! Nice and jumpy, esp with the surround cranked up!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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