Thursday, August 24, 2006

The Descent

At first I thought it would be a lame movie about young women buried in a cave or something... We all know how lame was The Cave and so I had very low expectations of this flick. Well, I was in for a surprise. What a treat!

From the beginning it is obvious that the raven haired gal and the blonde wife would have some kind of turnoils... The blonde's guy messed aroung with the other, and as he died a painful death the raven gal made an act of banishment for a whole year.

A year later, the Ya-Ya sisterhood...erm... the femmes who regard each others as friends, reunite for old time's sake as seems that each year they took a quest to an exotic place for thrills... Raven gal decided on some caves to be explored, who had been outside the maps (unexplored)... She didnt tell that to the others, sending the whole group on an adventure that gambles their own lives with ease.

After a cave-in, the women are trapped in an unmapped place and so their woes begin... they discover there maight be another exit towards the surface but that path will lead towards meeting hungry batlike humanoids who thrive on human flesh...buahahahahahah... As corny as it may sound, the blurred effects and storyline, and the performance of the main actors make this movie stand... After so many deaths, the inevitable clash between the blonde and the brunette comes and is... elating. The woman that played the blonde, coming out of a pool of blood reminiscent of Carrie was... Wow! The powerful expression of her ice-blue eyes... so much hate, hunger for retribution, desire for vengueance! Loved that! And the end was very much a la asian horror movies...

I really recommend this flick, worthy of the theaters... among so many movies that should have gone straight to video...

10-4