Scream your last breath

This is the last day of my long pre and post weekend. I'm out of the office for four days now since Friday and I am really getting bored so I decided to watch a movie I downloaded from torrent last night. I have read the review about this movie entitled "The Descent" starring SHAUNA MACDONALD and NATALIE JACKSON MENDOZA (well, basically there were six of them, I only find these two the toughest among the group) directed by NEIL MARSHALL, on the Internet and it pretty much caught my attention. I am not a big fan of horror movies but I find happiness watching such especially if I'm with some friends. Seeing their reaction is really a spectacular view you could only get to see during that point of total shock and adrenaline rush making their faces look like a comic book characters. Haha enough for the mocking part.

Going back to the topic, so as I've mentioned, due to the fact that the review was good enough gave me this thinking of "watching this movie surely is worth my time!" which I know is not the basic principle on criticizing a movie (not a movie critic myself, but we all are...in our own ways) or knowing if the movie is or not worthy, again, it is all dependent to your taste of genre. And so i started setting up my laptop, grabbing my laptop tray, putting my laptop cooler on top of the tray so my laptop will sit comfortably on top of it and plugging in the incredibly tiny speakers with its incredible power to amplify sound, like around 10 decibels? (just kidding).

The movie started with the characters going on a wild river rafting which was totally cool, catching the interest of the viewers and intriguing scenes followed. I think most of the characters were British, you'll notice it with their strong accent. The movie is not your regular dose of horror film giving you goosebumps and scarring you til the sun goes down, it's some sort of a horror film with a twist of tomb raider adventure which I find awesome so to speak.

Characters here know how to fight back to those man-like creatures lurking in the dark with sharp claws and if I may compare it to a character I've seen before (SPOILER), it would've been 'GOLEM' in the film, LOTR. (you know this definitely, no need to emphasize). Skin type is the same, no hair, (well, I guess there were few but not totally visible), teeth, the same, ears were like dwarfs', they can climb rough walls (since the setting was inside the cave) efficiently and with great flexibility however the only difference is that, they're as tall as humans.

Nonetheless, it was pretty effective though using a type of specie perfectly fit and has evolved to live inside the cave as predators. They're like bats that can't see but has perfectly sharp hearing that can detect movements and sound. (if I only knew the abilities of these creatures, I would've warned the characters to bring super mega fon so these creatures can go out from their den and to some ENT specialist with their eardrums hangin' out and them bleeding to death! YEAH!!)

The part that I didn't really like was when: "Juno (Natalie) accidentally hears something coming up behind her and swings the pick-axe. It is actually Beth (Alex Reid) and Juno has stabbed her through the throat. Grabbing Juno's bracelet, Beth collapses in a pool of her own blood and pleads with Juno to help her. A shocked Juno backs away into one of the tunnels, leaving Beth to die."1 (well obviously, it was due to the fact that she was so scared and with all the emotion she's feeling after fighting with a monster would excuse her from setting a high ground around her making her aggressive and just following her instinct, just so happen that Beth was stupid enough to not call Juno's name before approaching her. Can't argue with this anymore! Its the script's decision to kill Beth, then so be it!) And then on the latter part where Sarah and Juno was alone after fighting with the creatures, "Juno is stabbed through the leg by Sarah's pick-axe. Just as Juno left Beth to die, Sarah leaves Juno to die. As she runs off, Sarah hears the sounds of the creatures descending onto Juno and Juno screaming."1 (revenge of beth through Sarah! wicked!)

All in all, this movie is a great film to see and I highly recommend this piece of art to be played in your dvd or if you just wanna get a copy of it for free, try finding the torrent file of this movie and you can download it over night, faster maybe if you have good connection. Go grab a popcorn and scream your last breath out!

1 excerpt from the movie's synopsis (just tired of typing it down so i copied it, it's the same thing that I would've written anyway) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435625/synopsis
Photo attached was from http://www.impawards.com/2006/posters/descent_ver3.jpg