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The Descent

The Descent

Marriott, James

Paperback

Series: Devil's Advocates

Literary CriticismFilm Studies

ISBN10: 1906733716
ISBN13: 9781906733711
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Aug 20 2013
Pages: 119
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.30 Depth: 7.40
Language: English

The story of an all-female caving expedition gone horribly wrong, The Descent (2005) is arguably the best of the mid-2000s horror entries to return verve and intensity to the genre. Unlike its peers (Saw [2004], Hostel [2011], etc.), The Descent was both commercially and critically popular, providing a genuine version of what other films could only produce as pastiche. For Mark Kermode, writing in the Observer, it was one of the best British horror films of recent years, and Derek Elley in Variety described it as an object lesson in making a tightly-budgeted, no-star horror pic. Time Out's critic praised this fiercely entertaining British horror movie; while Rolling Stone's Peter Travers warned prospective viewers to prepare to be scared senseless. Emphasizing female characters and camaraderie, The Descent is an ideal springboard for discussing underexplored horror themes: the genre's engagement with the lure of the archaic; the idea of birth as the foundational human trauma and its implications for horror film criticism; and the use of provisional worldviews, or rubber realities, in horror.

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