This is a film I have been waiting along time to hit my television screen. The reason for that would be that back in 2000 when my uncle was running for public office, I was working on his campaign. And it just so happened to be that all the ladies I worked with...
The first time I saw The Descent; I could not help but be reminded of a book I read by Michael Laimo titled Deep in the Darkness. While the creatures in the book are different from those in the movie, they are both cave dwellers and live in the Appalachian Mountains....
Neil Marshall’s THE DESCENT was a damn-nigh perfect horror movie : relentlessly intense with well crafted characters and one of the creepiest endings of its kind since Carpenter’s THE THING. In its closing moments, after a bit of cruel false-relief, heroine Shauna...
For months now I have been hearing that The Decent is one of the most frightening horror films ever made. That’s it’s just as scary as Alien when it first came out. Rumor has it that the studio has even gone as far as to have given the green light for a...
Neil Marshall took three years to make another film after his impressive debut, Dog Soldiers. Unfortunately, as one critic noted, it seems as if it was ill-spent time in that the director merely revamped his first production, having shifted the gender of his cast from...
I am a proud card-carrying fan of director Brian Yuzna and co-writer Stuart Gordon (along with their little mentioned Lovecraftian-adapting sidekick Dennis Paoli). For me, they are the latter day Cormans of the B-movie industry. Though nothing either has done since...
