The descent s scares come by means of creatures referred to as crawlers. Zak hilditchs film is a slowburner, gradually charting wilfreds mental descent, and ends in a fittingly chilling manner. Lets look at what went down and what the swarms of rats haunting him really represent. However, sheriff vaines is an imbecile character and his stupid attitudes, taking sarah that is wounded and in shock to return to the underground, shooting in the cave and cuffing sarah in a tense moment, are so absurd that ruin the plot. This is the story inspired by not only the incident at nutty putty, but by the way john lived his entire life.
The descent is most often compared to two other movies within 2005 aka the cavern 2005 and the cave 2005 2005. There are very few contemporary horror films worth watching. Title by descent is the title by which one person, upon the death of another, acquires the real estate of the latter as an heir at law. Finally, a scary movie with teeth, not just blood and entrails a savage and gripping piece of work that jangles your nerves without leaving your brain hanging.
Film analysis the descent tragedy in horror youtube. The faq items below may give away important plot points. Part 2 is a stupid sequel of a good story that could have worked. The american edition comes with a nominally more upbeat ending than. After that, the movie seems to get lost in the gore and blood rather than the plot or theme. I liked it because it did exactly what a horror movie is supposed to do. The last descent tells the story of medical student john jones and the final 28 hours of his life spent in utahs nutty putty cave the story opens with john and his family flying to utah to spend thanksgiving with his family.
A disabled vietnam veteran visits a brothel searching for a mysterious woman hiding a dark past. A group of close female friends on a yearly adventure vacation find themselves trapped and hunted in a series of caves by an unknown force that lurks in the shadows in the descent, the second horror feature from dog soldiers writerdirector neil marshall. Descent has the potential to make a statement about sexual violence, but falls flat by focusing on revenge rather than rosario dawsons. Director neil marshall described them as cavemen that never left the caves. So, by using fantasy to make the movie finally less fantastic, it amps the scarelevel up makes it more real. He obviously knew about the creatures and i suspect he was the one who killed the deer and left it outside the hole too. After suffering a devastating car crash one year before, sarah shauna macdonald is lured to the states with her friend beth.
In 2009, john jones explored an unmapped section of the famous nutty putty cave. The descent has a few moments of scares based mostly on the fast cutting camera work. In the alternate version of the movie, sarah escapes the cave and runs to her car. After becoming stuck in a hole 18 inches wide and 150 feet under ground, rescue crews worked frantically and heroically to free him. However, this extension serves to drastically alter how fans will interpret the climax of the film. The british release has one final scene that was snipped for american audiences, though i really dont know why. As you may know, the descent which opened in us theaters this weekend was released last year in great britain, where it is now available on region 2 pal dvd. Shauna macdonald in the descent, a horror film by neil marshall set in. Unlike many cases of movies having an alternate ending, one of the descent s two conclusions is actually an extension of the other, instead of something entirely different.
Because the filmmakers considered it too dangerous and time. Its available to watch on tv, online, tablets, phone. Maya has come close to hitting bottom when she encounters jared and confronts him about the toll hes taken on her life. An amnesiac spelunker shauna macdonald joins a rescue team to explore underground caves where bloodthirsty creatures dwell. All three movies have similar plots and are shot in a manner provoking the greatest amount of claustrophobia. As earth literally begins falling to pieces, its up to a team of crack scientists to dive deep into the mantle and patch up the planet in this scifiadventure starring star trek.
I saw the descent in theaters back in 2006, and i remember liking it quite a bit. Descent 2007 maya rosario dawson is a friendly college senior who accepts an invitation to dinner from fellow student jared chad faust. Premium pay per minute 2 seconds will be deducted from your payperminute time for every second watched. Leading lady rosario dawson also served as producer for descent, which received its premiere at the 2007 tribeca film festival. Crawlers are a human subspecies that adapted perfectly to their cave environment.
The film follows six women who, having entered a cave system, struggle to survive against the humanoid creatures inside filming took place in the united kingdom. This british horrorthriller recalls grueling, adrenalinepumping classics like deliverance, jaws, alien and dead calm. After being met at the airport by his younger brother josh, the two decide to explore the recently reopened nutty putty cave. Underground predators inhabit the crevasses, and they have a taste. The lighthouse details its duos sloshed, spiraling descent into insanity via a ceaseless string of malevolent images, most accompanied by mark korvens bellowingfromthebowelsofhell score. Then, during a caving expedition, they were trapped, she slowly went insane, and savagely murdered everyone in the group. Final descent 1997 a pilot robert urich and copilot annette otoole have limited options to land a jumbo jet after a severe midair collision. A year after a severe emotional trauma, sarah shauna macdonald goes to north carolina to spend some time exploring caves with her friends. Another that follows a similar plottheme is as above, so below 2014 edit. The descent is already unusual for being a horror movie with an allfemale cast, but its even more unique for being the kind of movie that explores the damage caused by a friends betrayal. A sense of an ending in the descent stephen graham jones.
Also the american version of this film has a different ending, personally i feel happy endings are a cheap. I thought the movie was great, i was very glad to see a refreshing take on a cliche scenario. And so, for a change, you emerge feeling energized. Hitchcock cast young upandcomer anthony perkins in the role, then known for playing wholesome, likeable characters. The descent offers little explanation for the creatures, but an origin for the species has since surfaced online since the films 2005 release. It effectively demonstrates mayas emotional descent and transformation after her rape. Just finished the descent and wondering if anyone could help me understand the ending. Not meaning to say the descent has a gimmickending or anything. A deconstructive explanation of the movie you were never really here or how i realized less is always way way more when it comes to movies. The descent is a 2005 british adventure horror film written and directed by neil marshall. It is east to get caught up in the conclusion and miss the bigger picture. A car accident puts spikes through a characters head visible from the rear and kills a child offscreen. Still, though, even though i almost always go for the haute tension kind of twists at the ends of things, i think the uk cut of the descent is the weaker of the two versions here.
They are stealth and ruthless hunters who torment a group of women for the majority of the film. I dont get itsarathe blonde onescreams so the police woman can get alive from this hell but after that,the farmer hits the police women and get her next to the cave so the creatures can eat her. This movie was amazing, and robert eggers is definitely a guy who works hard at his craft. The two films in the series have shown their culture in a lot of detail, with many caverns and chambers having a specific purpose, such as feeding, drinking and defecating. The cabin in the woods 2011, while enjoyable, is vastly overrated, and despite my willingness to defend the purge 20 as a fun time at the movies, i dont think it is the next horror masterpiece. Once inside the very smallspaced cave, the women argue and show fear in alarming scenes conveying subjective states. Norman bates is really the killer one change hitchcock made when adapting robert blochs novel psycho into a movie was to make norman bates more sympathetic and appealing. Ending spoiler for the descent 2005, plus mistakes, quotes, trivia and more. Part 2 picks up just hours after the first movie following the unrated uk version.
The descent is a brief lyric of fortyfour lines, most of which contain five or six syllables. Horror seems to exist today as little more than a reverse action movie, where you cheer for the bad guy instead of the good guy, often because the socalled victims are really a bunch of assholes who deserve whats. I always hear that this movie is quite scary, but im kind of in the mood for a good horror movie. It is noteworthy, in part, because it is william carlos williamss first use of the forms. Rosario dawson, chad faust, wilson jermaine heredia, tracie thoms, marcus patrick show embed code. She then sees a vision of jessicas birthday cake and jessica sitting across from her. I think it adds another note of ambiguity and mystery that. Succession to the ownership of an estate by inheritance, or by any act of law, as distinguished from purchase. The movie as a whole was just so amazing, and definitely one of the best horror films of the last twenty years, definitely of the past decade.
This ending was considered too dark for us audiences. After a tragic accident, sarah travels to north carolina to spend time exploring. Its incredibly well directed, acted, scored and written. This british horrorthriller recalls grueling, adrenalinepumping classics like deliverance, jaws, alien. Thus, the last 40 or 50 minutes leave something to be desired. Exterior scenes were filmed at ashridge park, hertfordshire and in scotland. I literally just finished watching the movie you were never really here and i have to say, this movie jackknifed my truck. Film analysis the descent tragedy in horror for the first video of 2018, i have decided to explore neil marshalls 2005 horror film, the descent. Part 2 starring shauna macdonald in this horror on directv. Watch the connection between adrian and maya which merges them into opposite sides of the. Ok, this isnt a neat, tidy little answer, but the best i came up with is that the old man is just plain crazy.
Just finished the descent and wondering if anyone could. Parents need to know that the violence in the movie is visceral and bloody. Rather, i mean that a the descent can only exist in an effective form as a film, and b it is nearly perfectly executed. It is never explicitly stated, but it is strongly implied. As any good horror movie would do, this is hinted at in the dialogue.
A deconstructive explanation of the movie you were never. Descent trailer 2007 video detective movie trailers. After sarah crawls out of a hole in the cave ceiling after climbing up a pile of bones, she makes it back to where she and her spelunking friends parked their cars and drives away, only to awaken in the cave to find that her escape was merely a dream. Can you explain me the ending of the descent part 2. The descent is really no more complicated than alien in an underground cave, just as alien is often described as a hauntedhouse movie set on a spaceship. The descents multiple endings explained screen rant. The witch was a horror film that unfolded like a folk tale, a creepy portrayal of a puritan family living in the woods and being tormented by demonic forces.