A long-awaited review

I feel it's about time to share my experience with "The Descent." Swank and I decided to catch a late night movie, and he graciously agreed to indulge me in my passion for scary movies. I got my nachos and sour patch kids (it was a late dinner that night) and we settled in for a good, old fashioned horror flick. When movie started it began with the obligatory jump-out-of-your-seat moment within the first 5 minutes. We knew we were in the right theatre at least. From then on out it was a series of endless jump-out-of-your-seat moments mixed in with unbelievable claustrophobia, gore, and general terror. About 45 minutes into the movie Swank turned to me and whispered, "I don't like movies like this." We both giggled nervously and continued to watch in awe as bizarre looking cave-people hunted down 6 women in the dark with various broken bones and completely understandable psychoses.

That's when it happened. I turned to my partner in crime and said, "do you want to go? I'll stay if you want to stay but I could go too." I couldn't believe the words coming out of my mouth! I've stayed through every movie I've ever gone to, good or bad, scary or cheesy. Not to mention, my obsession with scary movies should have had me twitterpated from the moment I sat down! Needless to say, we decided to leave and there you have it. I left my very first movie in the middle because it was actually too scary. THAT in itself is kind of scary if you ask me.

I have to qualify my statement of "too scary." It wasn't the kind of scared I get where my adrenaline pumps and my eyes water (i.e. Blair Witch Project, "look at my eyes! look at my eyes!") It was more the kind of scary akin to holy crap I'm stuck in a cave, I don't know what's up and what's down and these weird Golem-like creatures are eating my friends. It's hard to explain. Or maybe you get the idea.

HOWEVER, I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that I will be renting this movie so I can watch it at home and see what happens at the end. No doubt at all. I also have to mention that it was awesome to see a movie with all of the leads (except the stupid cave people) as strong women and no men coming to the rescue (at least within the first hour or so). It also further solidified the fact that I will never ever EVER go spelunking. I have no idea why that appeals to anyone on earth, except for maybe the stupid cave people. Stupid cave people. I hate the cave people.