It has probably been discussed on here recently, but I can't remember the title and can't pull it up on google...

It came out this year, a team of women spelunkers trapped in a cave with strange bat-like creatures...?

It has probably been discussed on here recently, but I can't remember the title and can't pull it up on google...

It came out this year, a team of women spelunkers trapped in a cave with strange bat-like creatures...?

The Descent.

Thanks, Tenebroust.

Did you see it BTW? Worthwhile?

Thanks, Tenebroust.

Did you see it BTW? Worthwhile?

I didn't see it, no. The trailers looked pretty good. But when I first heard the title I thought it might be based on the book by, I think, Jeff Long. But I'm pretty sure it isn't. You know how horror movies are Mick! You pays your money you takes your chances!

I really liked it... well worth checking out. I prefer the European (original) ending opposed to the American (cut) ending.

I liked this as well. Worth the time to watch although you have a small point confused with the much much worse US film "The Cave" the creatures in the cave were batlike, the creatures in "The Descent" are...well, not batlike.

I didn't see it, no. The trailers looked pretty good. But when I first heard the title I thought it might be based on the book by, I think, Jeff Long. But I'm pretty sure it isn't. You know how horror movies are Mick! You pays your money you takes your chances!

Jeff Long's book "The Descent" was very different and I highly recommend it. I've written posts about it which I'll try to dig up.

OK, found it....

Oh My God! I didn't think anyone else made this connection but myself and my husband. I don't know anyone who has read The Decent by Jeff Long. How exciting. I haven't seen the previews but was wondering if they may be the same story. Does it look like it? I have made recommendations about Jeff Long to others. I LOVED the Descent. What a rich, engaging story.


Rose

Rose,
I only just found this thread. I read Jeff Long's "The Descent" and found it to be one of the scariest and most disturbing books I'd read in a long, long time. It scared me so much because it's a book based on all our fears of the devil and demons and COULD THEY BE TRUE? I thought the first chapters of "The Descent" were absolutely extraordinary. The rest of the book less so, but nevertheless, many months later, images from that book still haunt me.

I was hoping the movie "The Descent" would be based on Jeff Long's book. It sounds so much like the basis for Long's book but bastardized for the screen with lost women instead of the complicated story Long had created.

I'd love to see a movie of Jeff Long's book.

This is what I wrote about Long's book just after I'd read it:
"I finished "The Descent" by Jeff Long a couple of weeks ago but haven't had a chance to post about it. I highly recommend it. It's flawed, for sure, and long, but the opening is worth reading regardless of the rest of the book. I very much enjoyed the book overall. Long takes off on tangents here and there, and the ending, as with so many authors these days, was rushed, tied up too quickly. Though the ending was not satisfying, the book has stayed with me and I've thought about it daily.

The premise is that there is an entire civilization of beings living deep within the Earth. They are not nice, nuh uh. They are the stuff that nightmares are made of, and they may even be the reality upon which so many of our fears are based. This book got to me very quickly and very profoundly. It played to my darkest fears and made them seem...logical and reasonable, given the awful creatures down below.

I don't want to give anything away. "The Descent" is an imperfect piece, but I am very glad I read it."

I saw it in the cinema, and really enjoyed it

Thought it was one of the better movies I've seen recently

Hmmm...I'll have to read the novel "The Descent" (sounds interesting), and will probably catch the movie THE DESCENT on DVD when it comes out to see if they show he alternative endings.