I do not know why, but from all years beginning with 1995, 2005 is the year with the least movies I have seen so far, 9, compared to 35 movies in 2019 for example or 12 in 1997 (I am still 21 and I have only managed to watch around 700 movies so far). Well, I have made an excellent choice by picking this 2005 horror movie: ''The Descent'' is - visually speaking - one of the most interesting horror movies I have seen (the reds and the greens and especially one scene with a reddish fog in the first chamber of the cave system left me in awe and pleasant surprise); without spoiling anything, I just want to hint towards a realistic reaction of one of the characters in front of danger, a particular behavior variation that is rarely seen in today's movies where killing a monster just leads to silence and then jump-scares and then killing another monsters and so on, too much slaughter all of a sudden. What I try to say is that this movie sort of lets you breathe while also keeping yourself on the edge of your seat, it really builds and towers tension up and it is worth it. Of course, there are some common tropes about which the audience has become blasé (fake jump scares, the first one to die, turning back indicates a jump scare etc) and the unstoppable cycle of copying elements does not contribute to the aging process of this movie. But, overall, it is a good horror movie. I liked it.
Review of The Descent
