{"id":2819,"date":"2009-02-17T04:45:04","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T08:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=2819"},"modified":"2009-02-16T14:52:37","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T18:52:37","slug":"the-descent-rises-to-the-occassion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=2819","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Descent&#8221; Rises to the Occassion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2009\/z021709descent.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"356\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Pitch:<\/strong> <strong>\u201cCharlie\u2018s Angels\u201d<\/strong> [times two without the comedy] meets <strong>\u201cThe Cave.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Overview:<\/strong> <strong>Six women<\/strong> friends on an adventurous weekend of <strong>deep cave exploration<\/strong> find themselves in a <strong>life or death struggle<\/strong> to find a way out after a <strong>cave-in<\/strong>.\u00a0 Unfortunately the <strong>cave-in<\/strong> is the least of their worries\u2026 the <strong>creatures hunting them<\/strong> plan to feast.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Good:<\/strong> The feeling of <strong>claustrophobia<\/strong>.\u00a0 The <strong>creatures<\/strong>.\u00a0 There some <strong>legitimate scares<\/strong> [and some cheap ones as well].\u00a0 Juno [<strong>Natalie Jackson Mendoza<\/strong>] and Sarah [<strong>Shauna Macdonald<\/strong>].<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Bad:<\/strong> Trapped <strong>over a mile below the surface<\/strong>, with <strong>dwindling food and water<\/strong>, few supplies and <strong>no sure way out<\/strong>\u2026 and <strong>that\u2019s not the worst of it<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Ugly:<\/strong> The <strong>creatures<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Summary:<\/strong> I wasn\u2019t expecting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000IHY9TS?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=craizabls&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=B000IHY9TS\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>\u201cThe Descent\u201d<\/strong><\/a> to be as good as it was.\u00a0 And while it isn\u2019t a classic, it is a <strong>solid horror movie<\/strong> that manages to come up with <strong>new creatures<\/strong> and <strong>situations<\/strong> in a sub-genre of <strong>horror<\/strong> that could have been very routine.\u00a0 <strong>\u201cThe Descent\u201d <\/strong>is worth a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pitch: \u201cCharlie\u2018s Angels\u201d [times two without the comedy] meets \u201cThe Cave.\u201d The Overview: Six women friends on an adventurous<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[53,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-movies","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2819"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2822,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions\/2822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}