The Descent (2005) MOVIE REACTION! FIRST TIME WATCHING!! 

Yep..

yeah I also don't think they noticed her daughter died in the car crash too

@@BEYEXI I was just thinking that, they only mentioned her husband and not the kid.

@@RaefonB yeah to me its only important if they got the ending I remember. People are mentioning their is two versions of the ending. the ending I remember was her daughter and a birthday cake.

@@BEYEXI , When I saw it in the theater, I don't recall her still being in the cave at the end.

The monsters are the cherry on this shit cake

Yes. Spelunking will NEVER make since to me. Claustrophobia makes it impossible for me to ever even consider such a hobby. That, and laziness.

I already saw this when it came out and to this day just hearing the name of the movie makes my chest thump away. I didn't even want to watch this with the lads on the channel but here I am.... right now I'm only 7 minutes into this reaction vid and had to pause, start reading the comments to take my mind and thumping chest a break.

IKR?! That first scene was terrifying enough for me that they didn’t need any monsters. Lol. Hell, give me the monsters instead of that tunnel hole where that girl was stuck. I could barely breathe at that part!

I thought the surviving in the cave part was scarier than the monsters in my case. After the monsters showed I became less scared for whatever reasons.

That's basically all it is. No need to know more than that because there is no more than that.

@@duncan9661 I have a bigger problem with how he has to look at Tom every time either of them speaks. I mean, how can he give a film a fair rating when he spends 60% of it staring at his boyfriend?

@@duncan9661 It kinda miss the whole point of doing movie reactions right?

Yep when i saw this in theaters I was like ohhh shit. Ahead of its time. Classic imo

Spelonkers. Cave divers do flooded caves.

Juno was the only one trying to put herself against the crawlers to protect others. Everyone else pretty much panicked and only looked out for themselves. That was kind of the point. Juno was an asshole in a lot of ways but also noble in a lot of others. The trauma really broke Sarah and made her unable to see those shades of grey when she decides Juno should essentially be executed for her transgressions.

@@judson9223 Excellent point and observation.

YESSS! TOTALLY AGREE! These horror films NEED to establish relationships with the audience. Make you FEEL for them. The more you FEEL for them, esp if you LIKE them, it's harder to watch them die. Many horror films miss this. They make jack asses out of the guys and bitches out of the girls so when they die it's like "meh" ok next. A great horror film imo will always make you feel empathy for at least some or 3/4 of them. For the sake of just saying this... HOSTEL missed this all the way around. It was gruesome horrible sick from but they guys were all jerkoffs. Had they made them relatable, it would have been so much better even one of a kind being it had mostly an all-male lead cast. The only death I liked in that film was when those two bitches that lured them to the ART SHOW died when they got ran over. Those two girls played the best roles IMO.

@@judson9223 i think it’s also possible Sarah had somewhat lost her mind by the end of the movie. the weight of her grief, the gruesome deaths of her friends, and the traumatic situation at hand are probably among the things that could have tainted her mind.

@@sarahlawrence599 Oh, definitely! That's why I love this film. Apart from the monsters, the story of Sarah's "Descent" into madness was well-plotted. And our own ambivalent feelings towards Juno support our appreciation for Sarah's character arc.

No.

Yes

Yup, insane is right. Oh wait you meant her muscles... kek

Just wait until you see the sequel where you find out she's been down there fighting all the monsters by herself for God knows how long lol

@@kidneystonermusic the sequel takes place right after this one ends, she's been down there for about 2 days, maybe less.

Yes, I did too and I'll never forget the image of an all black screen and their tiny lights in the corner. So claustrophobic!

Me too. They did a great job making that cavernous theater feel very small.

Me too. Terrified.

Yeah I see it with just one other person there. I will never know how I got through watching a movie like this.

First time I ever watched the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre, sometime back in the early/mid '80s, I was the only one in the theater so that was a super creepy experience...especially when some employee from the cinema suddenly walked about the theater in the dark...

I literally do not remember her getting out. I remember her crawling up the bones and reaching, screaming, and it ending. Weird.

wasn't third a third ending too? or am i making that up

Google confirms 2 endings. The US & UK versions. Mandela effect??

I am glad you mentioned that! I must have watched the extras and forgotten because I kept saying, where is the birthday cake scene? hehe

Unnecessarily bleak

You’re assuming that she was thinking clearly & rationally & has not just been buried underground, in pitch blackness, fighting for her life against terrifying creatures who’d she recently witnessed physically devouring her best friends.

THANK you! Beth's blood was NOT on Juno's hands. I mean, it was. And also her face. And Sarah's face. Where was I? lol Oh, yeah. Why would Beth sneak up on J when her friend was still in beast mode? That one's on her! And then throws Juno under the bus to Sarah because she's pissed she's about to be molepeople chow! Could've told Sarah ANYTIME about her philandering husband. Nope. Waits until now. I love getting irrationally-irritated by horror movie crap. Favorite pastime:) ha

Not only did she make an idiot choice, sneaking up on someone, after what just happened. She then makes it seem, as if Juno DELIBERATELY, stabbed her! And what Sarah did to Juno was also a dick move.

shock? adrenaline? fear? trauma? i mean theres a lot.

Considering it could just as easily ended in the monsters getting her instead I would say that is not a fair question. Calling out would likely have meant death for her to.

Same!

I like to think of it as very enjoyable but the execution is very wonky. They are right that the script is kinda wishy-washy - the first time I watched this, no matter how much I enjoyed it, I couldn't really tell the girls apart from each other.

I agree! The film was a superior horror film receiving great reviews. Personally as horror films go I couldn't fault it in any way & therefore gave it a 10/10

Agreed

@@linuen34 Disagree

@Sam Yes you have a point, but Sarah & Juno used survival instincts to fight back, it sucks they both didn’t make it out alive cuz I like them both

@Sam IKR

@Sam The ending in the 2nd one really pissed me off

To be honest I don't buy that only 2 of them would fight back. Cave diving is not for the weak of heart - they would all be bad asses. I would have found it more realistic if 1 or 2 overplayed their confidence but folded psychologically in the cave which led to them becoming easy prey.

Seconded.

That movie was so boring tho

That's a really good one 👍

On the livestream the other day Shaun said that Buried was the movie that made him become interested in film making!!

Buried is great. An entire movie in a coffin. I feel they should do a similar film of Han Solo, during the time he spent trapped in Carbonite.

Exactly. A lot seem to skip over that Sarah was having a breakdown and didn't take meds while on the trip. The title can also mean the descent into madness.

I’ve also like the idea that she’s in purgatory still haunted by regret.

There's a reason why there's a close up shot of Sarah's pill bottle. I love the idea that Sarah killed all her friends. The creatures didn't exist.

@@Sideout1000 provided at least one creature does/did exist, I think both can be true 🤷🏻‍♀️

This movie has a ton of alternate views and scenarios. It is fantastic!

Unlike its sequel

"RUN!" lmaooo

I actually think the first half of the movie was infinitely more terrifying than once the crawlers showed up. I’ve never felt more claustrophobic in my life.

@@johnbriggsmusic completely agree, yea. it was far scarier without the monsters. maybe because it's not as real

So, so wrong. The final scene makes no sense with the beginning scene.

@@Russelshackleford The final scene of The Descent is fantastic - she loses in the end, descending into madness. I loved it.

The sequel was done right until the very end though. That ending was just... so bad.

@@GhoulishGwyn And unnecessary. Cherry on top.

@@GhoulishGwyn Continuing off the ending of the first movie was already bad enough. It's somehow a try-hard sequel that is very lazy at the same time. I know Sarah being the only character wouldn't work but there's no excuse for any of the others to be alive.

I can’t imagine how horrifying it would be to get stuck in a cave, particularly in a tight spot & be stuck there, in pitch darkness, to die.

I laughed hard at that too. ROFL!!! Tom was very focused and Sean got him good! XD

And the last shot shows us that, lost in her birthday party hallucination, she is about to kill the light of torch keeping the monsters at bay, right?

@@edisonlima4647 - I think that's right. I believe it was on a rental DVD that included all the possible endings. This brings up a weird mini-annoyance about movies in the modern age. When you see multiple endings to a movie - and one is CLEARLY the best one - and then years later, you find out that the only currently available version of the movie doesn't have the best ending.

Agreed

I liked it much better.

Isn't this the end they saw? At 19:04 you can see (blurred) the camera moves to the birthday cake and the child.

Oooooh. Youre gonna be surprised.

In my honest opinion that makes the story better The unnecessarily bleak ending kinda ruins her arc

@@turma8eac What's her arc, though? The movie is called the descent, it refers to both the physical descent and Sarah's own descent into depression and grief. That's why (imo) the hospital hallway envelops her in darkness like the cave later on, after realizing what's happened to her family. If she gets out and is haunted by betraying Juno, who had already betrayed Sarah in the first place, I'm very confused as to how that completes her character arc.

@@jadeandjesse5908 Sarah was already depressed and grieving. The course of the film chronicles her descent into barbarity and madness.

@@turma8eac Eh, to each their own. I like bleak, personally.

Yep. The sequel only works with the American ending because that version cuts off right when Sarah sees Juno's ghost, hinting she lives but is forever haunted. Sequel continues after Sarah gets to the hospital. Personally, I prefer the UK ending.

One of the best found footage flicks. Especially since it’s based off of Dante’s Inferno

That was a very good movie.

This!

I actually prefer the American ending, even though it’s a cop-out. The American ending stops with Sarah escaping and seeing Juno in the car. Sarah escapes , but is haunted by the ghost of Juno.

Yeah, it's the better ending that actually carries and ties in the symbolism used throughout the film.

@@jimhaggard7436 that's nowhere near as disturbing as this ending. A girl haunted by a ghost is kind of cliché and average, to me that could be the ending of any movie.

@@NocturneSoul that’s why I liked it better, I guess. It was a cliche, but not as bleak as the original ending. I can handle twists and supernatural endings better than nihilistic ones.

@@jimhaggard7436 See, that's where I think the real horror lies in this movie, not all the awful stuff the group experiences, but the fact that even though Sarah lives, she doesn't survive.

The ending is depressing though because they all die and she had already been through so much even before she set foot in the cave. I freely acknowledge that it's one of the better horror films I have seen, but I've never been tempted to watch it again after the first time because I truly hate those kind of endings.

She didn't deserve to die.

She caused a lot of her problems

Gerald’s Game was a movie????? When? Where? How did I miss it? That book was so good and had some TERRIFYING parts!

Love Dog Soldiers!

Just read, about an hour ago, that Neil Marshall is in the early planning stages of a Dog Soldiers sequel. In the article it said that it was supposed to be 3 films and a sequel was first announced in 2003 but by 2006 it was shelved because of disagreements. It looks like it will now become a reality.

Dog Soldiers is excellent. So many funny moments

Great points! I’ve never heard of the meds and her being the killer theory.

I agree with you. I love these two but they definitely did not catch a lot of the deeper meaning. 😓

Mo Mo Thanks for sharing that. I didn't like this movie, thought it completely boring. Nothing more than a student project. I don't remember the film at all, so I can't even say if I noticed your points or not when I watched it. I'm glad there's more to it than my impression, so thanks for writing that.

I must agree. This film has many layers to it.

@@SwampBrat19 to be fair I think this movie works best in theaters. I watched it with some other friends recently and they also totally missed the fact Juno had an affair with Sarah's husband. I think the sound editing when watching it when Beth kind of spills the beans is hard to hear/connect unless your volume is at the max and it can be difficult to pick up on the looks Juno and Sarah's husband give each other at the start of the movie and remember that moment after everything happens.

From the videos of their's I've seen so far, they don't seem to mention subtext or even outright plot points that are pivotal to the movie

Are you going to pay for their therapy sessions afterwards?

HOW IS THIS UNDERRATED

People slowly cathing up

I love the French extremities movement, but High Tension is extremely overrated. Ugh I hate that darn movie.

Props to The Descent for not breaking all of its own internal logic in the last five minutes like High Tension did. Most twist endings make everything make sense and High Tension does the opposite.

Ugh, High Tension was PERFECT until that terrible ending. Like WTF! XP

Yep. This movie has no sequel at all. No, sir.

Oh man, definitely.

I 2nd that!

Thirded

Plus the two giant battle episodes of Game of Thrones (Say what you will about the ending, both of them still kick all kinds of ass).

One of the best werewolf films!

It's one of the very few found footage movies I enjoyed and it is almost the ONLY found footage movies where It makes sense for the footage to still exist at all (I remember a found footage movies in which the world ended and I was just like: "Wait, so WHO would have ever found this 'found footage' if the camera explodes???"

And she found her dying friend with Juno’s necklace, meaning she knew Juno killed her.

One of my all-time favorite horror films. The opening is so effed up and so devastating.

I love that fact! Apparently, they were so freaked out, they ran off the set but came back in plenty of time to preserve their reactions.

My cousin and I do that to each other all the time. You have to be able to screw with your besties! hehehe You also have to expect to be punched in the bleep for it too.