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Robert Ringwald · 08-12-2006, 11:41 PM

Enjoyed it, but am in the camp that liked the other ending more. It packed a stronger punch. Although the US version still works... it just fit less with the tone/theme of the film. I thought it was pretty intense and didn't feel like the gore was senseless... as it is with most horror films these days. I also thought it earned a lot of the scares and didn't resort to the typical horror cliche-ridden sequences we're so used to. Some of the scariest stuff was the real horrors of the cave (being trapped in narrow spaces... hanging above a bottomless pit, etc. The monster effects were very eerie and I also liked the nods to other genre films.

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08-12-2006, 11:41 PM	#11 of 11
Robert Ringwald Member Join Date: May 2001 Local Time: 02:16 AM Local Date: 08-30-2008 Posts: 2,770	Re: * Official THE DESCENT Review Thread Enjoyed it, but am in the camp that liked the other ending more. It packed a stronger punch. Although the US version still works... it just fit less with the tone/theme of the film. I thought it was pretty intense and didn't feel like the gore was senseless... as it is with most horror films these days. I also thought it earned a lot of the scares and didn't resort to the typical horror cliche-ridden sequences we're so used to. Some of the scariest stuff was the real horrors of the cave (being trapped in narrow spaces... hanging above a bottomless pit, etc. The monster effects were very eerie and I also liked the nods to other genre films. * (****)