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Some critic compared this movie to Alien. They must have been like nineteen or something. While having a long way to go to be worthy of that comparison The Descent is just near perfect enough to be truly frustrating and disappointing to genuine horror fans. Lots of shock moments, too many really. And the different elements of the film remain somewhat choppy despite excellent chemistry with the cast. It's worth your money to see in the theater. You will be scared. The whole comparison to Alien just ruined it for me though really. Instead of focusing on how good it was, my entire experience with it remains focused on how good it could have been.

OK what do you get if you cross Conan the Barbarian with Star Wars with the end of the world? Thundarr the Barbarian, that's what. OK, so like... guys come on. This show was like the most awesome concept of it's time if not of the last thirty years. So what if it had to be sold as Saturday morning tripe for eight year olds... IT ROCKED and still does. I was only like three or four years old when I saw this show for the first time and I remember watching it religiously. My Saturday mornings were not complete if I did not get to see Thundarr kick some butt. I am just now getting around to re-collecting (ie downloading) shows. The owner's are kinda of dumb not to release it on DVD... they would absolutely make a lot of money. More over... they should re-create the show and get the franchise rolling. Thundarr will be just as good in near-apocalyptic 2005 as it was in near-apocalyptic 1980. Well, they might have to change the cataclysm from 1994 to like a later date... but I'm sure they they can figure it out in another time traveling episode or something. And if not that.. movie rights guys? Hello... every comic book and lame super hero is being turned into a live action film these days...

This was such an excellent film that all horror fans should be raving about it until we get another in the same vein, perhaps a direct sequel signed over by Romero with Snyder and a few of the original (remake) cast on board. And if we're all very lucky Snyder will try to outdo himself the second time around. Except for having the same name and being about zombies it's kind of hard to really call this a remake or even compare it to the "original." They really are two entirely separate films, with two separate attitudes, ethos, and for lack of a better word, feel. It's pseudo-political timing, which every serious film that uses explicit amounts of sex or violence must ultimately be, was perfect, the escalating war in Iraq, the building of fundamentalist religious fervor bordering on madness, the almost simultaneous... compare and contrast me even though I have absolutely nothing to do with... release of the ultra-violent "Passion." I must have been glowing a dark, dark, shade of, zombified, almost black, red, when I walked out of the theater after having seen it the first time. It frightened me! It truly frightened me. I can't remember the last time a horror film frightened me. Maybe it was the first time I saw the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but I'm not sure. Please, please, please, art people and production people and finance people and Zach and Sarah and Ving and Kevin, and hoards of apocalyptic terrifying, fast and frightening zombies...come back! It's worth it, for so many good reasons...

I saw this movie for the first time about a year ago. Already being a horror fan, I assumed this "classic" would be no better or worse than any other "classic" in the horror genre. Simply put, most horror movies are not brilliant and the ones that are usually cross-over into suspense thrillers, science fiction, or mysteries. I was unpleasantly surprised to find the one true precursor to most modern slasher films. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is horrifying and shocking, more so for its time I'm sure. The simplicity of this film and it's perfectly square characters add to the heightened sense of "reality." The bad acting is the same bad acting that made The Blair Witch Project such a success. If you go in not expecting too much of a plot or the best in photography you may be unpleasantly surprised as well and like me find yourself up until sunrise reading Harry Potter behind locked doors.