Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Rental Review: Descent

By Ryn Gargulinski
While I thought this would turn into a stupid chick flick, it ended up being a very cool chick flick. And not the chick flick in the sense of designer duds and boo hoo boyfriend stories, but the tale of a handful of strong, able women trapped in an underground cavern. With a monster.

Actually, it was a colony of monsters and the women, strong as they were, had no chance. This movie effectively takes you to the depth of their horror, which includes loss of hope, insanity and their ultimate death and dismemberment, not necessarily in that order. Beautiful!

Highlight: No sappy happy ending here.
Lowlight: The dream sequence where the one woman murders the other woman who already murdered another one on accident is only a dream sequence.
Rating: (1-10): 18

This movie was recommended by JCE.

1 comment:

MJ said...

Oh boy! A good horror flick to rent. I also love the freaky dolls photo. Hope you don't mind but I emailed it to my sister Weezer Jr. for a little terror to with her morning coffee...she is very afraid of dolls.