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The same man who directed this also did a film called Dog Soldiers. An underrated Werewolf film set in Scotland with British Soldiers.
i can see that.... because among horror fans, that on just like this one is quite overrated by now.. in my opinion both are totally fine but certainly no masterpieces 😜
@@stefanforrer2573 Not sure i agree. Dog Soldiers needs more praise if anything. Its a beast of a movie.
Dog Soldiers is great. Just proper popcorn fun! I think you have to get British humour/culture for it to work best, and early 00’s British humour as well.
I love Dog Soldiers! Easily one of the best werewolf movies.
dog soldiers was such a good 'fun' film
This is one of those horror movies that some people still aren't ready to call a classic because it came out less than 20 years ago, but make no mistake: it's an absolute classic and is just as good as some of the best horror films from the 80s
100% agree
That's why we have the term Instant Classic❤
This movie was born classic.
It was a classic 1 second after you see it
@@DiggitySlice that's nonsense. A film's quality is not influenced by the passage of time. If it's good enough to be a classic 40 years after its release, then it was good enough when it came out as well
Sarah’s husband and daughter were both killed in the car crash when the metal poles went through the windshield. You could see the husband’s hand twitching.
I think they got confused because they drive on the wrong side in the UK.
@@carlossaraiva8213 Technically people have been driving or more accurately riding on the left side of the road since Roman times, so perhaps those who drive on the right are in the wrong. Just food for thought :)
@@carlossaraiva8213 We drive on the correct side. The side people have traveled on for over 2000 years, the side proved statistically to result in fewer road accidents. You drive on the side of the road only chosen because old Frenchie Napolean was sore at the British & because the anti-semitic, Nazi-supporting Henry Ford decided to put steering wheels on the left side of cars.
@@TheN9nth Appeal to tradition is a fallacy, you know? Just because the romans did it doesn't mean it's right for today, you know? The romans used to cruxify people, shall we bring that back just because they did it, eh? You get the drift?
@@TheN9nth skill issue ngl
Simone's heart rate is higher when she laughs than when she's scared.
Isn't that a trait of a psychopath?
thats because all the stuff is acting up. like most woman do.
Fun fact: The Descent is set in North America, However, through cinema magic the film was shot entirely in the United Kingdom.
I love that Juno is the one who brought everyone there and was the one having the affair with Sarahs husband but is also the one who ends up being the most competent and works so hard to survive so we as the audience end up having complex feelings about what Sarah does to her at the end.
Well said. Yes, Juno is a fascinating character that adds a lot to the film
My favourite bit of trivia about The Descent is that the director did that old trick of keeping the creatures a secret from the cast until the final moment on the set. He had the actors all turn their backs and had the 'Crawlers' file out in full make up and costume, then had the actors turn and face them. They all ran off the set screaming... 😀
There's no way seasoned actors ran off the set screaming, especially since they knew they were in a horror movie, and what was being presented to them was obviously the creature antagonists.
@@jwhite-1471 I'm guessing this is a made up story too, but on the other hand, it's not like they were all "seasoned actors". For a couple of them this was only their second or third acting job ever.
Also, those creatures wouldn't scare me half so much as being squeezed into some of those tiny little tunnels, even fake ones on a set. Haha
if they ran off set screaming then shot we see in the film is not the first time they saw the monsters. so the statements seems untrue
@@LoganBluthit’s different when you’re in a dark ass cave and running out of light sources, it’s why I can’t get myself to play the forest because you have to go into those caves for both useful items/blueprints and necessary items to progress plus even get to the end game area
Fun Fact: In the special features for the movie they described the creatures as the cavemen who never left the caves. The director also purposely hid what the creatures looked like from the cast, so in the scene when they all encounter one for the first time as it jump scares them, that's their genuine fearful reaction IN REAL LIFE.
Also, the behind the scenes clips feature the extras in the creature costumes having fun, drinking coffee, gossiping, filing each other's nails, etc. It's hilarious!
"piece of piss" is UK/Aussie/NZ slang for something being easy.
No god damn clue why though
@@dgtlrnI’ve never even thought about it but now that you bring it up it is weird and I have no idea where it came from.
Edit: curiosity got the better of me so I looked it up. The origin doesn’t explain it much, just that it was first mentioned by a British RAF soldier in 1945 as an alternative to piece of cake.
@@dgtlrn Why do American's measure nothingness in a unit of burger? Why do Canadians sell bagged milk? Somethings will just never be understood by other cultures.
@@dgtlrn It's like Piece Of Cake, but made horrible. :D Probably merged with 'piss-easy'.
@@dgtlrn The word "piss" does a lot of heavy lifting in Commonwealth slang.
Piece of piss = easy
On the piss = drinking, or going on a pub crawl ("We're going out on the piss tonight.")
Piss-up = a party with a lot of drinking
Pissed = drunk
Piss-head = either someone who's drunk, or who parties/drinks a lot in general ("Go sleep it off, piss-head.")
Pissy = irritable, short-tempered ("Don't get pissy with me.")
Piss-weak = pathetic/feeble
Pissing down = raining hard
"What's that got to do with the price of piss?" = "What's your point?"
Simone's legit _scream_ at the reveal was pure joy 🙂 Remember seeing this opening day. After the pure claustrophobic nightmare build-up, the audience positively levitated from that jump scare XD
29:50 In some versions, it did end with her in the car after Juno pops up. This ending is 1000x better
Yes, but since there is a sequel based on this ending, I guess it's canon.
@@Riddler0603 Meh, i still don't consider that sequel canon. The original creators had nothing to do with it.
@@adgato75 Respectable. But it's an official sequel, continuing the story of the main character with the same actress. Therefore, it is in fact canon to this series. You can still say it doesn't exist, though 😉
Truth
The 'happy' ending was to suit American audiences.... Her totally losing her mind, a literal decent into madness, is more realistic, don't forget she has stopped taking her meds
The behind the scenes footage is worth it for seeing the actors playing the cave crawlers goofing around in full makeup!
The great thing about being 6 ft 4, 300 pound plus is that noone would ever get the idea to invite me to do such a tour.
I would not even fit to the very first tight passage 😂🤣
I first read this like you were 4,300 pounds and I was baffled.
But... I am!
Jk, Jk, sorry about that. I'm from Europe. And I am always bamboozled when trying to translate metric to imperial.
Over here I would just tell that I'm one nintysix (1.96 cm) and above 150 kg 😂🤣
@@chriswerth918 No, no the way you wrote it is fine, I just read it wrong! 😂
We went caving on a school trip. We sent the big lad in first, if he could fit then the rest of us could 😁
You must watch Dog Soldiers, it's an awesome underrated action horror cult classic from the same director.
agreed
As someone who was born and raised in the region depicted in this film, I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of albino cave-monsters.
However, I can confirm the bullet holes in road signs. That's a popular Appalachian pasttime of which I may or may not have taken part.
They're around, I've seen them at the Rodgers Flea Market.
"Oh, so it's going to be crazy people with guns!" "Uh, I think that's just America."
More bored than crazy. No one ever says "I want to go to Appalachia for the wealth of activities that region offers." So it's shooting at signs or meth. The latter is no good, because I like having teeth.
Especially when there's an animal on the sign, like in this movie
If the govt willing to spend the money to put it up ya gotta be willing to take at least one pop to it
Thank you for the UK version. 👏🏻🇿🇦
There are no other versions, thus is the only ORIGINAL one!
the piping went right through Paul (the husbands) head in the car crash we did not see the daughter die, thankfully
That nutty putty cave, is absolutely horrific. I remember during covid waking up and reading about it and just getting horrible anxiety and claustrophobia. The guy's name was John jones. I can't imagine being in such a tight spot, that your arms are literally stuck underneath you and you can't move. And then being upside down as well. I literally had to go outside and walk around when I read about that story. Because my room which is like 15 x 10 x 8 was making me feel cramped and that dude was in a space like 2 by 2
I live 10 minutes from the Nutty Putty cave. As a teenager many years ago, i went with some neighborhood kids and we explored the very tight underground passages. As a kid, our biggest fear was running out of lights and not being able to find our way out, so we always packed extra. I never thought much about getting stuck or not being able to make it through some of the sections you dive head first into.
After John Jones got stuck and they sealed off the cave, i thought back to my own exploration of that area and now, i can't even imagine trying to go down there. As humans, we really are dumb in our younger years. I'm just glad i made it out of there safe. Now, I'll just stick to larger, well traveled caves.
The poster is amazing. It's a reference to a famous photo by Salvador Dali.
The Silence of the Lambs had the same inspiration.
Amazing indeed...
Ive been in a cave twice in my life. Granted, nothing like these: the caves I was in were very established and thoroughly explored. But even then, there was something just entrancing about it. Something about being down there just, its a feeling Ive never forgotten. One of the caves I was in, called "The Lost Sea" was so beautiful I don't even have words for it. Its literally an underground lake. So cool. So yes, Id absolutely love to go spelunking. That feels like the next step.
Oh, and yes, this movie HEAVILY inspired the Forest.
Extremely glad that you chose the UK version!!!
Fun fact, I watched this when it came out thinking it was another movie that came out around the same time about a cave rescue. My wife and I were so confused when the movie ended and the rescue team never showed up, we kept expecting an entirely different movie. Fun reaction as always!
Are you thinking about The Cave?
@@Angivel yes! That was the movie I thought we were watching the whole time...
That actually happened with me and the movie Child's Play, I ended up accidentally seeing problem child when I was a kid and kept waiting for the scary parts 😂
I watched this film as a special Halloween event underground in a Slate Mine in the UK. This film, total darkness, underground, absolutely scared the crap out of me any everyone else.
In answer to your question aroung 13:10, I used to work in a submarine in the engineering section. While subs are cramped normally, and I never had an issue with small spaces anyway, there were some crawlspaces and compartments where you definitely felt the walls closing in. What helped with me was deep breaths, teaching myself to forget the confinement that I couldn't see, and focusing on the fact that I can die from panic or from the machine I'm trying to repair. We never worked alone, so it helped having someone to talk to who regularly reminded you that dying from the machine is the worst way to go... because we're dudes in the Navy, that's what qualifies as support.
Thank you for your service, sir! Respect. And thank you for your advice. I will try that the next time I have to go into the tiny crawl space under my house.
@scorpiouk5914 UNDER THE HOUSE?!?! Dear God, I'd never go there; its a death trap!!! ;) The trick is not doing it alone and having something tied to you that they can hold. Practically, the odds of them pulling you to safety if things go south are pretty minimal, but you'd be surprised how reassuring it is when you're there.
hoorah sub, im a Seabee, could never handle being on a ship
@@rememberblackmesa I will always have a special place in my heart for the Seabees; when I was in a rough patch at college, an old Seabee that worked in Facility Services taught me to weld. I'm nowhere near as good, nor would I claim to be, but my beading is still pretty good, everything we built is still up (including some theater sets that were meant to be broken down), and it got me out of the rut I was in. :)
@@politicalmoderate190 hell yeah shipmate, keep rockin on
I haven't been spelunking.....
BUT... I used to work in Plumbing & Heating, and got called out to a house that had a crawl space under the main house. The access to the space was in a hallway floor panel that lifted up yo reveal a small ladder that went down to a concrete floor that all sloped down to a central sump pit. They had recently been flooded because of excess ground water in the area, and their sump pump in the pit had failed and so instead of being pumped out, the crawl space had filled with water moderately deep.
I arrived halfway through the morning and they had just had the crawl space pumped out by a company with a big truck, so the only water was in the sump pit itself and I had a decent amount of time to replace the pump and get it up and running again before the space flooded again.
I did get the new pump in place, but when I showed the homeowner the install, they indicated that they hated their old pump hose... which was one of those cheap flexible plastic lines that they had strapped to the floorboards on the ceiling of the crawlspace. The hose stretched 15 feet over to to where it terminated to the regular floor drain in the crawl space. Problem was, the furnace for the house was mounted to the ceiling of the crawlspace in a sideways configuration, and all the ducting tin was blocking off the corner of the crawl space where the floor drain was. The hose ran though a small space above a furnace duct, and to fully replace it I would have to get to the other side of the ducting.... and the only way to do that was to lay on my back, and squeeze my body under the furnace ducting. I'm not a large guy, and it as still a tight squeeze.
I grabbed some ABS pipe from the truck quickly, unhooked as much of the old hose as I could and ran the new ABS pipe through the space above the ducting.... now all that was left was the squeeze under the furnace ducting and do all the work on the far side to drain it into the floor drain like the old pipe. I worked as fast as I could, but didn't realize that the water had begun filling the lower part of the crawl space by the sump pit. By the time I finished, I looked over, and saw that the water had filled almost to the level of the furnace ducting.... which meant that for me to get out of the corner, I would have to squeeze under the ducting while submerged under water.
I quickly for the few tools I had there, placed them in the small space above the ducting, and slipped my body sideways into the water, on my back squeezing under the ducting line, my stomach pressed tightly on the tin above me.
My shirt snagged on part of the tin assembly, and for about 30 seconds I couldn't move.... fully submerged in the water, and feeling the panic start. I did manage to rip part of my shirt at a button and dislodge myself, reached the sump switch by the ladder and begin draining the space.... but had my shirt not ripped I could very well have drowned down there.
I will never go spelunking..... ever. That was enough for me.
Oh. Oh no. No.
As someone that recently went cave diving down in Mexico, I have to tell you that it’s a once in a lifetime experience
Because you either die after the first time, or come so close to dying and go "fuck that! Never again."?
What if you do it twice? 😁
That's what we're afraid of.
'Once in a lifetime' because you either decide 'never again' or you didn't make it out alive.
@mctown972 Bravo! You're way braver than I am. Human bravery and curiosity is inspiring - when it isn't focused on creepy stuff.
While I still maintain the scariest bits are the claustrophobic squeezing-through-tiny-passages scenes, the bit with the camera where she pans around and it’s RIGHT F*CKING THERE is epic and truly memorable.
Juno didn't deserve to die, she was actually the most helpful in the entire adventure. I know she's they were there in the first place, but she's quickly making up for it. she even came back to save sarah.
You absolutely need to watch Dog Soldiers from the same director. So underrated and a cult classic.
Very true.
Dog Soldiers is awesome!
Congratulations on watching the correct ending. The US ending just stops with the jump scare in the car and never reveals it was a hallucination and she's back in the cave. Apart from that, they're identical. Hilariously George just described the US end in the wrap up and said "if it ended like that I wouldn't have liked it".
I was checking the comments to see if this was the case. I totally guessed what the US/UK difference would be. We love a grim ending over in the UK :)
THANKS FOR THE SPOILER ☹☹☹
You need the U.S. ending as it is cannon to the Descent 2. This one is useless
Except the US version is totally unrealistic and only done because spoonfed yanks love a happy ending. If it's not what the director wanted them it shouldn't exist.
Poor little you@@markgassen6326 someone told the ending to a 19 year old movie, on a channel that reacts to movies, where you would expect people to talk about differences in versions..... Need a tissue for your issue???
I was a resource specialist at a federal land management agency. I volunteered to help out the wilderness ranger inspect some of the caves in our district. While nothing in there was as intense and narrow as the movie, I did have an equipment malfunction while climbing an 80 for vertical passage and ended up getting stuck there for an hour.
27:33 much like Hannibal Lecter, Simone's heart rate never got over 85.
well, 86.
I just started watching and saw the shot up sign. I've worked road construction for many years (in the US) and bullet holes in road signs in rural areas are very common. My coworkers say that is Friday night entertainment for country folk, crack a beer with your buddies, drive around and blast some signs.
I never see anyone catch it: at ~14:46, Sarah’s looking around and sees a silhouette that looks like a claw hand. When she pans back around over the same view, it’s missing.
My dad worked in Crystal Cave in Sequoia National Park in the 80s and 90s. So I did a lot of spelunking with him at the time. It was never "fun" for me, but the claustrophobia wasn't the issue. Rather, it was the darkness and lack of sense of direction that really got to me. I was also always more afraid of drop offs and falls than I was getting stuck.
There is a cave in the Peak District lovingly called The Devils Arse, and it holds concerts and film screenings in the main entrance part of the cave. Last year they had a screening of this film there. Quite possibly the best/worst place to view it depending on your disposition. Sadly, I couldn’t make the screening.
Looking forward to this reaction though….I’m going to in….
Please tell me they sell “I went up the Devils Arse” t-shirts!
@@Replicaate I believe they do I think my sister has one😄
Holy hell that would be awesome!
@@emilywilhite5807 I know, right. I was gutted 😖
There is a part of me that wishes we could add screenshots when I want to correct someone like where the car was impaled but then I think the use of it would just be a DESCENT into chaos. Hope that gets used at the end sorry I couldn't stop myself. 🤪
Many horror movies are metaphors for difficult emotions, but this is such a good reflection on grief… how it takes you places you never wanted to go.
I never thought of that, but it makes sense now. After my brother died, it was like all my inner demons came up. I really see the parallels with this movie. 😱😱
The poster is an homage to a picture by Salvador Dali 👍
I've done the kind of spelunking that they let children do, which did involve some smallish crawls, but all big enough for adults, and all well-explored.
When you get claustrophobic, you have to just kinda let it go, and remind yourself that it's safe.
And NEVER go into an uncharted cave.
I've looked into cave exploring for a novel, and I would not willingly enter a cave like that.
My friend has been a caver for decades (They don't call it spelunking in the caving community). He recommended this movie to me and praised the art design. The caves are apparently very realistic, even though they are all done in studio.
When my cousin was in college (in the Appalachian Mountains) we spent one evening exploring a cave. This cave was just an opening on the hillside and privately owned, so there was no oversight. We had spent the day tubing on the river and he had just heard about the cave and just wanted to look at it. So, we stopped there in the early evening with the intention of looking around for 10-15 minutes then heading home. We were prepared with mechanics coveralls to protect our clothes and two flashlights for three people. Now, the cave was well known to the locals and college kids, so there were marks inside and a story of an underground waterfall somewhere in there. Once we got in there, the exploration was so cool, we just kept going deeper.
We had to climb down a shaft that was like a chimney and eventually found an underground stream. The arrows kept pointing deeper, so we crawled through the stream into a chamber that was shaped like a big beehive, 40-50 feet tall. The water came out the point at the top like a shower, not much of a waterfall. But really, really cool.
Finally satisfied, we headed back out. And one of the flashlights died. So, now we had one flashlight for three people, no food or water, we hadn't eaten since lunch, and nobody knew where we were, only the car parked on the side of the road down at the bottom of the mountain. Claustrophobia wasn't a problem for any of us, thank God. But knowing that if that other flashlight died, we'd be stuck down there in the dark forever was terrifying. Luckily the light held out and we even heard another group in the distance at one point, so all was well.
I saw this movie in theater with my friends during highschool. Beside two other people, we were the only ones in the room. Watching that movie in an empty, dark theater was an incredible experience.
I love how the title has a double meaning. It's the decent into a cave and the main protag's decent into madness. Her trauma catches up and swallows her whole by the end.
No shit, the UK Version? 👍
Can't wait to see you two descend into even more fear and anxiety, this is going to be great! 😆
I like to hike. I like walking in well lit caves with a tour guide. But fuck every bit of crawling through dark, narrow tunnels 100 meters underground with no light, or squeezing through tiny crevices with no way to turn around. Just THINKING about it makes my palms sweaty. 😑
So when I was a kid I read the book. For anyone that doesn't know, there is a book by the same name with similar elements as the movie but the movie is not a faithful representation or remake of the book.
In the book it's just discovered there is a subterranean species, much like the ones in this movie that are more wide-scale shown instead of one small expedition like this. I don't remember a lot because I was young when I read it but it always stuck with me and when this movie came out I expected it to be a same story but it was not.
For anyone that is into reading, a dying hobby nowadays, check the book out it might be worth it if you enjoy this movie. I do not remember the author but it is also called The descent
"Who do you think is the survivor?" ... yeah.
About that...
The idea to make the blood pit scene black and white was a really smart and artistic choice on your end, George. For a second I thought that was a choice by Neil Marshall, the director of the film, to make it black and white for artistic expression.
This film regularly sneaks onto "Top 10" lists for "lesser known" or "Hidden gems" in horror aficionado discussions. And that window jump scare at the beginning is fucking TOP Tier.
Here’s an interesting detail that I noticed during my second viewing. In the original UK/Director’s cut ending, the very last shot of the birthday cake before panning up to the image of Sarah’s daughter shows six candles instead of five as it did in all the other previous shots of the cake. I believe that the five original candles represent the five women that died, but now that there is a sixth, Sarah is about to die to join her daughter. Alternatively, one could interpret it as Sarah’s former self has already died and that she has descended into becoming a new, more monstrous creature.
The lighting in this film is really clever. Different characters use different light sources so amongst all the darkness it's easier for the audience to follow which character/scenario they're following as the film cuts between them.
The behind the scenes of the creatures is so good lmao. They just seemed to be having a great time on set and the filming looked so fun!
So, it is funny that you mentioned the Nutty Putty Cave incident. The cave is like fifty miles from where I live. I have been through the Nutty Putty Cave once when I was like 14 or 15 (so mid to late 1990s) and I went through areas that were small enough that I had to push with my toes and pull with my fingers. I was 6'2" tall but like 130 pounds, so I could fit through a lot of stuff. In retrospect, it was absolutely dangerous, idiotic, and I am lucky that nothing bad happened to us.
The Nutty Putty Cave incident involved a guy getting stuck going headfirst down a passage that was like 10 inches by 18 inches. He got stuck and they attempted to get him out for around 28 hours before he died from being upside down and compressed. After talking to his family, they decided to leave his remains in the cave. They brought down the ceiling where he was with explosives and sealed the entrance, closing the cave permanently. So sad and so scary!
The cover art is based on the Dali painting “In Voluptas mors”.
If you look closely the same painting was used/referenced in the cover art for Silence of the Lambs in place of the natural markings on the deaths-head moth.
Hey guys!
I hope you're all well?
Do you remember a scene in ' Silence of the Lambs where the creepy guy, who runs the place where Hannable is being kept, says something to Clarice like " His pulse never got above 85, even when he eat his face off! "?
Well, I was watching the pulse meter over Simone and noticed it hardly ever reached above 80, even during some terrible scenes, lol! 😂
I'm not a doctor, but thinking about what I just mentioned about Hannable, should we be concerned about Simones state of mind, does she need to see a doctor?, ahhahaha! 😂😂
The decent is such a good movie.
I could be wrong, but I believe there might be a second one also.
I personally would love to explore such caves.
It would be interesting to discover what might be there, who came before you, and even places never explored beforehand.
There is, of course, many dangers in that too, but sometimes we have to take risks.
A great reaction, guys.
Have a great day, take care!
I used to cave explore when I was kid. I lived by railroad tracks. One side was the Mississipi river. The other side was cliffs/woods. I used to climb up a narrow cave all the time. I went to system of caves on a separate school trip too. I don't get clausophobic, I get scared I'm invading an animals space/nest and might deservingly get attacked while it defends it's home.
Caving is a lot of fun, but I don’t do well with long squeezes. But there’s tons of caves you can do that don’t require much more than stooping.
The bullet holes in the sign is indeed "just America" haha.
That honestly is something I wouldnt look twice at living here my whole life hehe.
Simone's heart rate is a cool 65 through basically the whole movie. Then George mentions going off-the-cuff for the discussion: instant spike to 80.
The production level and attention to detail of this movie is impeccable - they had very little "cave" to work with, and managed to tilt and light the set in such different ways that you never realize they are continually traversing the same set in different ways over and over.
Re caving: Yes you feel some low grade fear but in general you will be doing it on known routes. The times we went exploratory the anxiety was definitely higher but you know what you can fit through in general so getting stuck is extremely rare. Getting lost is far more likely
Having reaction videos where the peeps are actually showing their heart rate is an awesome idea.
I saw the look on Simone’s face in the thumbnail and just started laughing because I knew 😂 😂 😂
That night vision camera scare is the single best jump scare ever put to film imo. It absolutely scared the piss out of me in such a visceral way when I first saw it.
Oh wow, Simone let out a full, long scream at it aha.
I'm from the UK and I've done caving like this in the Canadian Rockies, about 2hrs from Canmore.
The caving route was meant to approximately take 3hrs and instead took our group 8-9hrs.
I freaked out a few times when my body got stuck for a bit in really tight areas and told the leader I couldn't go on as I was claustrophobic and his response was rightly "if you were claustrophobic, you wouldn't have come down here from the start".
Once we eventually got out, there was an insane thunderstorm, creating mudslides down the mountain.
The adrenaline that day was super high.
All in all, a total highlight and one of my favourite parts of my travels across Canada 👍
I've done some spelunking in a couple of cave systems in Colorado. This movie does a good job capturing that claustrophobic feeling of the tight squeeze you sometimes need to go through. The challenge isn't usually the squeeze, it's keeping control of yourself. You can get through it all...if you don't panic.
I went spelunking with a couple of friends in a cave we found in Georgia. There were sections where we went between 2 angled rock slabs for about 60 feet where you had the breathe really shallow to squeeze through. Drops where you had to twist and turn to angle through dropping passages so it was really cool and with the lights out it was just pitch black. One of the advantages we had is that there was nothing trying to kill us in there and we never worried about that.
I love that you watched this version this is the best ending there is a alternate version where it does cut to black after she screams from seeing Juno
I love exploring caves, but I also hate being trapped and unable to move, and I 'feel' the weight of everything above me. Honestly though it's the same feelings and similar reservations as being in a building, or flying in a plane, or riding in a car, or standing on a cliff, or swimming in the ocean.
There's always considerations to be made and dangers to be faced...it's just a matter to be weighed and decided on. I have no problem saying "no" and backing out of a decision if need be and have done so in caves before.
"So....we have to lean across a chasm to brace our hands on a wall while shuffling along a narrow muddy ledge to get across to the next section? Our lights can't reach the bottom of this chasm, and we have no safety gear? I'm out. Good luck!"
I'm usually (not always) the skinniest member of the party, and I always remember the line in the book The Longest Cave: "Anything you can get yourself into, you can get yourself out of. It is not true."
I remember I had a huge crush on this girl Ashley. She was just getting out of a relationship and we met. We were both 17 and we would have like four or five hour conversations like all the time. Play she was really shy about hanging out with guys she doesn't really know and kind of give me the run-around for a while but finally we went on a date and her brother and his girlfriend were there and we all saw this and I remember she was terrified and like grabbing on to me and I never get scared by movies but that one seen that gets everybody in this fucking movie jump scared the shit out of me haha
In the UK, we call cave exploring "PotHoling". It is very common for schools to take groups of kids, aged 10-15 years old, on "day trips" to do it.
I met a mayor of a small town in 'Merica who joked about getting pre bullet holed road signs in hopes of keeping people from shooting said road signs.
Been spelunking in several caves in North Tennessee and Southern Kentucky. And yes there are times you feel the panic trying to set in, but the exploration is still worth it as long as you know the cave and bring a partner to watch your back.
George is right. Bullet holes in signs in very rural areas is common here. I think that’s actually what they were going for with that shot (no pun intended); that they’re in a VERY rural/isolated area. I.e. help is far away.
This is my favourite horror movie, so glad you got the best version.
I remember in The Sopranos Bobby when out in the woods saying that there's old tales of weird albinos living in mountainous regions , can only guess this is a play on those myths
When I saw the trailer for this, just on the first scenes with them going down these tight tunnels I was already noping out. Don't need any monsters to make this terrifying.
You need to check out The Ritual (2017). I feel like George would love it.
I don't want to say much so I don't ruin the experience, but it's about four guys that go hiking in Sweden and it involves Norse mythology
My favorite story about my sister is the time her friends tricked her into watching this movie. She hates horror movies so her friends just told her it’s about a group of friends who go on a caving adventure. She was like, sweet, a movie about the power of friendship! 😊 She told me it’s the most scared she’s ever been in her life, and god how I wish I’d been there to see it! 😂 I love this movie, I’ve seen it so many times!
John Jones and the Nutty Putty cave incident made me instantly never want to go spelunking.... EVER!! Thanks for the reminder George!!
I belong to a caving group, frequently in caves. Tight squeezes don't bother me. I do remember one bigger guy getting stuck and we had to dig him out
Check out the movies Host(2020), As Above So Below(2014), You’re Next(2011), Rec(2007), The Strangers(2008), and House Of Wax(2005).
Many years ago I had been on a cave tour (in Ireland) where we had two groups taking two different paths in a cave system. I managed to lose contact with my group, which was quite scary, but luckily I homehow ended up finding the second group. No rapelling or weird creatures involved though, and nobody got hurt.
I loved this one. Sanctum is my favorite cavey claustrophobia flick. "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea."
Crreeepy
~13:00 - Yes, I have. (Not to this extreme degree, just smaller Wisconsin caves) Including crawls like that. What you're talking about is The Panic. And yeah, you ... not so much "power through it" as "set it aside," like when meditating. Cuz it'll kill you. Tight crawls like this are definitely very intense.
I once came close to The Panic, crawling thru a crack we barely fit thru with a bag strapped to one of my feet. It was maybe 3 meters long, but about halfway thru it started feeling like 30 meters and I started thinking about all the rock surrounding me and how I could get stuck ... Yeah. You gotta shut that shit down QUICK!! You also never do it alone, and you leave "breadcrumbs" along the way so you can find your way back; but no marring the cave or anything. I like using wax candles. Rope is also very common. It's ridiculously easy to get lost down there.
The dripping is just water. It means a cave is still "living," which is to say still being formed. The water carves it out. Dry caves are "dead" and the only changes they might have are collapses, no more formation.
Being down there is worth it. It's stunning. There's nothing so utterly totally 100 black and lightless and quiet. .... Unless you're in an area with the dimly glowing fungi, which is very neato but also freaky.
I am SO glad you mentioned The Forest. I absolutely thought of this movie when I played that game.
I felt more claustrophobic in an MRI than I did in a cave. I didn't help I can't lie on my back for more than 5 minutes. Also the picture they showed me was of the Gurney at it's low level and didn't tell me they'd raise it so my head was about a foot from the tunnel.
"We don't do well with claustrophobia." Well I guess it's good for them Buried didn't win the poll. Shame.
I saw this movie in school with friends when it was released and kind of forget it. But I can say that whole scenes were used in 2013 tomb raider game and whole look of lara croft and atmosphere, fight with ice axe, caves, water everything was in first part of game.
Funnily enough, the ending you would not have liked, George, is exactly the US ending. And yes, it sucks. Uk all the way. ;P
"His pulse never got above 85, even when he ate her tongue." Looking at you, Simone.
The thing I love about this movie is that it is an extremely well-made, terrifying movie about CHUDS. The word "Chud" comes from the movie C.H.U.D., where it stands for "Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller." That movie is terrible 80's cheese, but it coined the phrase. It has sort of morphed in modern-day parlance to just mean someone who is really ugly with little redeeming social value, but in its original form, it literally meant human-type monsters who live under the ground and eat people. And once you know what a chud is, you start seeing them all over pop culture. The Morlocks from H.G. Wells "The Time Machine" are chuds. The orcs and goblins from The Lord of the Rings are chuds. It is an archetype that while not as recognizable as vampires or werewolves, are almost as pervasive.
And of course, as Homer Simpson once said, "And that's when the C.H.U.D.s came at me."
My heart rate goes up too with Simone when there is talk of Vaginas LMFAO. That weird statement said, I believe THIS is the best horror movie ever made in my opinion. I am a horror movie freak since childhood in the 80s. This has everything, mystery, suspense, intrigue, real fears, dread, hope, self-defeat and assertation. Not even mentioning the filming of this, just perfect bravo.
a long time ago there were snow elves but they were driven underground during a war with the Nords. they were then enslaved by Dwemer and over time it turned them into the feral Falmer that you see in this movie
It is crazy how little we actually explore. Hear all the time how someone finds a tiny hole on their property that opens up into a massive cave system. just walking along and fall 100' out of nowhere, creepy af lol
Simone’s reaction was “Oh, ….. Greeeaaat.” That alone had me laughing.
And it’s not even in the same universe as Aliens.
The nerdy one, I think it's Sam, was my favorite. I know she dies but she kept her head through it all and really stepped up leading everyone else.