Claustrophobic Survival Horror On Tubi is a modern monster Classic

According to Chris Snellgrove
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When you watch enough horror movies, a funny thing happens: ironically, it gets harder and harder to find a movie like this really scares you That’s because so few horror films have truly original ideas behind them, and too many modern horror films disappear into a self-inflicted miasma of Whedon references and cute jokes. Luckily, there’s one terrifying modern monster classic you can stream for free: Descentnow available on Tubi.

Descent into terror

Even by horror standards, Descent has a simplistic story that focuses on the misadventures of a group of women who decide to go spelunking in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. A trip can be fair thing to take our main character’s mind off the grief she’s still processing from the tragic loss of her husband and daughter a year ago, but things go awry when they all end up in an unknown cave system. But soon everyone has much more than trauma and loss of care when they come into conflict with terrifying goblin-like creatures waiting to kill anything they can get their claws on.

Part of what makes up Descent as a horror film, it is interesting that (except for the monstrous “crawlers”) all the characters are played by women. This includes Shauna Macdonald (best known for the TV show Ghosts) and Natalie Mendoza (best known for the TV show Hotel Babylon). The film also stars Alex Reid (formerly known for the TV show Supreme power), MyAnna Buring (best known for appearing in the Twilight films and in Charmer series).

From the point of view of the treasury, Descent is one of those scary movies that was made on a relatively small budget and made (for the price) some big profit. The film was made on an estimated budget of £3.5 million (or just over $4.3 million) and grossed a whopping $57.1 million at the box office. That was enough to go on, but Descent 2 it ended up being a critical and commercial failure.

Fortunately, the original film is loved by critics and audiences alike. On Rotten tomatoes, Descent it has an 87 percent critical rating, with critics generally praising the strong acting and heavily claustrophobic vibes. The movie also has a 76 percent viewership rating via Popcornmeter, proving that it’s not one of those horror movies that critics love and yet audiences love (like pretty much every other “uplifting horror”).

Serious nightmares

As for me, I loved Descent for many of the same reasons… an all-female cast may sound like patronizing, but it was done to set this film apart from other horror films (like director Neil Marshall’s earlier Dog soldiers). Throughout the film, the characters truly feel like friends whose bonds are constantly tested by the strange situation they find themselves in. Plus, even though they aren’t exactly household names, each character feels unique thanks to the actors’ creative performances. .

But real reason to watch Descent it’s that it’s genuinely scary and manages to induce visceral terror by simply tweaking a few classic horror formulas into something that feels exciting and new. We have characters who are trapped, but in a cave in the mountains rather than a cabin in the woods; we have monsters that look like Gollum’s third cousin but are treated with deadly seriousness. Throw in a terrifying beginning and a bleak ending (especially with the unrated version) and you have a movie that’s guaranteed to haunt you…one that we really wouldn’t recommend trying to watch before bed unless you’re ready for it. seriously nightmares.

Can you find? Descent as gut-wrenchingly scary as I am, or is this a movie you’d rather throw into an unexplored cave system? You won’t know until you venture out yourself. But once this claustrophobic classic gets its claws into you, be warned… you won’t be able to look away and you’ll never forget what you see