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Talvalin

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Cheers!

I'll watch this at coffee break time or tonight if I don't get the chance.

Vadim is a character created by Donald James, he's a hard boiled russian detective from murmansk. Great books, begging to be made into a film.

Good call. Monstrum is a great book and it would be an excellent film. Set in the near-future with Russia in the middle of a civil war and nasty murders going on in Moscow.

Speaking of Russia, I need to watch Nightwatch.

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Popo

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Finally got to see this today. Whew! A nice selection of jumps to be had, plus some great tension. Loved it.

The infra-red reveal made me jump somewhat...  :)

I've just played the flash game on the official site for added heebie-jeebies.

Oh god, I'll play that tommorow in the daylight!

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cassidy

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Well this is out on DVD today, and I watched it last night.

Bloody brilliant, the scariest horror film, I've seen in a long time, and I've seen lots.

The setting was just so bloody claustrophobic, its was bonesnappingly, head smashingly, eye gougingly brilliant. So visceral and just plain grim.

More like this please. My only beef was the ending. It just didnt know where to finish IMO.

Well worth checking out.

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moosegrinder

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# Audio commentary from director Neil Marshall and members of the cast Shauna MacDonald, Myanna Buring, Alex Reid, Saskia Mulder and Nora-Jane Noone

# Audio commentary from Neil Marshall and producer Christian Colson, editor Jon Harris, production designer Simon Bowles and assistant editor Catriona Richardson

# Extended scenes

# 'Making Of' featurette (45 mins)

# Outtakes

# Storyboard comparisons

# Stills galleries

# Biographies of cast and crew

# Theatrical trailer

From Play. Dunno if I could watch it again on my own. I'm a right wuss.

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Saw this last night. I thought I had downloaded The Cave (loved the trailer for that film) and was well disappointed when I realised I was watching something different. It's not a bad film though, made me feel well claustrophobic and I loved all the gory bits, well except the leg break scene. :)

Good ending, I'm intrigued by the alternate interpretation that was posted earlier on. Also I never guessed the affair thing either. In fact I can understand the 'descent into madness' explanation much better than the bits pointing to an affair between Juno and Sarah's husband.

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Saw this last night. I thought I had downloaded The Cave (loved the trailer for that film) and was well disappointed when I realised I was watching something different.

You can thank god that you ended up with the wrong film! The Cave is one of the most atrocious films i've ever seen - i actually felt oddly agitated and quite irritated out of sheer boredom watching it.

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Rowan Morrison

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It's a hoary old internet classic (that could only work on the internet, which is part of its beauty) and it may well have been mentioned somewhere in this thread, I can't be arsed to check, but when I was watching (and enjoying) The Descent I was reminded time and again of Ted's Caving Page. If you enjoyed The Descent and you've got an hour or so to spare, it's well worth a look.

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Popo

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It's a hoary old internet classic (that could only work on the internet, which is part of its beauty) and it may well have been mentioned somewhere in this thread, I can't be arsed to check, but when I was watching (and enjoying) The Descent I was reminded time and again of Ted's Caving Page. If you enjoyed The Descent and you've got an hour or so to spare, it's well worth a look.

That site's freaky as fuck. I'm only on page 8 so far... it has to be made up, surely? Very "Blair Witch".

Edit - finished it. Saw that coming a million miles off :(

Great read though!

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CarloOos

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It's a hoary old internet classic (that could only work on the internet, which is part of its beauty) and it may well have been mentioned somewhere in this thread, I can't be arsed to check, but when I was watching (and enjoying) The Descent I was reminded time and again of Ted's Caving Page. If you enjoyed The Descent and you've got an hour or so to spare, it's well worth a look.

That's fucked up. It's clearly a real cave, and even if the story is a load of shite it's still unnerving.

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Major Britten

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I bought this earlier on today and so far have only had time to check the extras. The making of is really interesting and you can tell from that what a good time everyone had, it also explained how a lot of the effects were made which was of extra interest for me. Everyone should check the blooper reel though, the funniest bit is at the begining where

there is a crawler finishes his scene and starts dancing over a green screen

Cant wait to watch the film again later tonight :D

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Major Britten

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Well I watched tonight with my mum, and she said she thought it was a load a crap :D

Her main negative points were that it was too long before the creatures appeared, it was too dark and you couldnt see anything, i was all women which means lots of screaming and crying and lastly she thought the ending was rubbish as no-one survived.

Still I guess you cant please everyone :angry:

For me I really enjoyed watching again and will probably watch it with the commentary in the next few days.

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linkster

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Well I watched tonight with my mum, and she said she thought it was a load a crap :D

Her main negative points were that it was too long before the creatures appeared, it was too dark and you couldnt see anything, i was all women which means lots of screaming and crying and lastly she thought the ending was rubbish as no-one survived.

Still I guess you cant please everyone :o

For me I really enjoyed watching again and will probably watch it with the commentary in the next few days.

No offence kid, but your mum's a dingus</Krusty>

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V3zna

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Finally saw this tonight and thought it was great. Accusations that certain scenes are to dark to see what is going on are certainly true although what the hell do people expect in underground caves? I suppose the overly dark scenes lead to an even more claustrophobic atmosphere. Respect is due for the films ending. Not the route most directors / writers would have taken and the film is all the better for it.

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Fuck me, I came in from work to see everyone starting to watch this, so I sat down and joined them. I'd heard about it and seen the trailer, I knew it was from Neil 'Dog Soldiers' Marshall but I didn't know much else. But Christ, this is without doubt the best horror film I have seen in years. Nothing even comes close, at all. Seriously. It makes every horror released in the last decade or so seem like a complete joke (So perhaps there are a few exceptions, Ringu would be one, but I can't think of anything else).

An interesting and unique premise, fantastic characters that you care about, heaps of tension and atmosphere and a ballsy ending. I do have a few slight criticisms:

Mainly that I think we saw too much of the monster near to the end, which dampened it's impact somewhat. Leaving a little more to the imagination would have been better, but it was still fantastic. The design of the 'monster' was great, the fact that it looked almost human made it even scarier.

That bird with the fire went a bit crazy near the end. personally, I would've got the yank bird to help me out before I killed her. I suppose being down there for so long doesn't help things, she probably did go crazy, and then started hallucinating and what not.

Still, it was totally brilliant. Well done Neil Marshall, you did good.

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McFly

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When does this happen exactly?

Possibley when the girls first go down the hole and the Scottish lassie is scoping the cave and you can see one behind a rock in "itwasthereaminuteago" type thing.

WHy i lent this to my bro the day after i bought i dont know.

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