Okay, hypothetically, if there was a cave full of man-eating bat-like creatures that you just barely escaped (covered in your best friends’ blood, I might add), would you go back there for some fun spelunking? Yeah, neither would I.
The plot of the first installment in this unlikely franchise was your basic horror movie premise: “Hey, wouldn’t it be cool if we went to _____, it’s not on any maps and no one in the world would know where we are!” In this case, fill in the blank with “a deadly system of caves where we could possibly get eaten alive” and you have The Descent numero uno. Throw in some inner turmoil between the main characters, copious amounts of blood and goo and a “Woman Power!” message straight out of some gorey Ya-Ya Sisterhood handbook, and there it is.
Only one woman makes it out in that first flick, and everyone assumed that she just kept driving ‘til she hit China. Well, the sequel would have us believe that she got talked into going back to the caves to see if any of her friends survived. How do you spell d-u-m-b, folks?
I think the world (fictional or otherwise) would run a little more smoothly if people learned their lesson from horror movies. Turn to your friend right now and tell him/her: “If we’re ever fighting monsters, aliens or some kind of hybrid alien/monster and you see something chewing on my leg, I give you permission to assume I’m a goner. Just run ‘til you hit China.” See – much easier. Then again, if you’re a fan of shouting out phrases like: “Oh my god, NO ONE is that stupid! Don’t go in there!”, then you just may be in for the movie experience of a lifetime with The Decent 2…
(The movie is still in the pre-production stages, eyeing a 2009 release.)
1 comment:
Thank god no one ever thought about making sequels to self-contained movies like Highlander or The Matrix. I mean, that would've turned out plain silly... ;)
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