Jun 13 2009
THE DECENT
Love it, love it, love it!
PLOT
Sarah leaves a whitewater rafting trip with her friends, only to lose her husband and daughter in a horrendous crash on the way home. The following year she meets up with her friends Sam, Beth, Sarah and Juno along with Juno’s friend Holly. They plan on exploring a fairly well known cave and just enjoying their time together. They head off into the caves, but when it collapses the girls discover that Juno took them into a different cave. She was hoping that they could discover the cave and name it. Unfortunately that also means that no one knows where they are and they have to find their own way out. One of the girls sees a weird creature in the cave, but they all ignore her until suddenly they find themselves face to face with those creatures…
TRIVIA
The Decent had two different endings, depending on whether you saw it in the UK or the US.
THOUGHTS
I think The Decent is one of the best horror movies in recent years, if not the best. I’ve seen it at least a dozen times by now and it just keeps getting better and better. There are still scenes in the movie that completely freak me out, even though I know what’s going to happen. I was lucky enough to see the original ending before I saw the American ending and that version is far better even though it’s just a little thing. If you haven’t seen it, go see it now.
I completely agree, this movie is great! It has atmosphere, tension, and creepiness…there’s even some gore for the gore hounds. I thought the characters were well developed and believable.
POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT
As the movie progresses you see more and more of the “creatures.” Although, they are highly disturbing and creepy, I thought they were scarier when you only saw glimpses of them from a distance or in the shadows.
I have to agree with you on that. It kind of goes back to the less you see/the worse it is kind of thing. Plus it’s always worse when you can’t see what’s coming lol