[ SECRET POST #5122 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5122 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I've seen quite a few horror movies, and it's the scariest one I've watched. That said, what people find frightening and disturbing is so specific to the individual, that you might watch it and be like, "Eh, that wasn't so bad."

[(Anonymous)]

OP was so much like me. I was terrified to watch it and put it off for years, but heard such great things about it.

I watched it pretty recently and, yeah, I didn't find it too scary. I was actually REALLY impressed at a number of plot decisions made (especially in the very beginning) and that helped a lot. I'm also not claustrophobic, but there were times in the movie: YIKES!

It was a very good monster movie that I didn't find horribly scary and I am a WUSS when it comes to 90% of horror movies.

(I feel almost exactly the same way with the movie It Follows. I'm not sure if there's a correlation for OP, but thought I'd throw that out there.)

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT - See, and I find It Follows absolutely terrifying, albeit in a different way than The Descent. The Descent was all about the spiral into blind terror, whereas with It Follows it was the idea that was deeply disturbing. There was one reviewer who said something like, "Because nothing is more terrifying, or more sad, than having to look over your shoulder for the rest of your life."

With The Descent the horror is extremely immediate (but also weirdly existential at the same time). While with It Follows the horror is about something relentlessly eventual.

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AYRT - I think for me, for both of the movies are the issues of self-reliance. With It Follows, there are specific rules It follows (heh) that would be inconvenient, but I think I could work around. I have to drive out to X, then double-back to give me time to work here for X hours, then go to Y so I can come home and get a good night's sleep, etc. Or I'd just have sex with a flight attendant. It would be EXHAUSTED by that. Overall, I'd go into problem-solving mode and I can handle that.

With The Descent, it's almost opposite: it's a situation I would never, ever be in. 1. My friend group is more trustworthy, 2. I would never spulunk and 3. In a physical situation, if anything remotely like this came up, I feel pretty self-reliant.