For this year’s 31 Nights of Horror Challenge, the Day 4 prompt is Down in the Underground. I watched the new movie, The Descent on Amazon Prime Video.
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Our Thoughts on The Descent (2006)
7 out of 10
Twenty-one separate cave sets were built for the film. These were carefully reused with different camera angles, set dressing and lighting to suggest a nearly endless collection of interconnected tunnels and caverns. For realism, the makers often limited the lighting of the sets to light sources that the protagonists brought with them, such as flashlights, helmet lights and light sticks.
The Crawlers have the auditory Shout-Out to the Predator series. They’re similar to the clicks dolphins make, and are a very early tip-off that they use echo location.
The park where the women are supposedly meeting, “Chatooga National Park,” does not exist. The name references the Chatooga River, which is a real river where the movie Deliverance (1972) was filmed, which is loosely referenced in this movie (rough nature versus city dwellers). In Deliverance (1972), this is the river that leads Lewis and friends into trouble.
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