The actors do not bother with American accents, and there’s no real explanation of what people from the U.K. Those lush forests are in Scotland, and the tight, claustrophobic cave is a series of sets shot in London. While set in the U.S., The Descent was filmed in the United Kingdom. In The Descent, a group of friends explores a series of caves in the Appalachians. But this time, they want to try exploring a cave. Like they did when they were whitewater rafting, the group is exploring the Appalachians in North Carolina. She wakes up in a hospital colored sickly green, traumatized beyond belief at what has happened.Ī year later, Sarah is ready to try again, with Juno and Beth, as well as their friends Sam (MyAnna Buring), Rebecca (Saskia Mulder), and their new friend Holly (Nora-Jane Noone). Sarah, driving with her husband and young child, gets into a car crash, and she is the only survivor. They even knock each other out of their raft at the end of the journey, just to keep things light.īut that all ends on the ride home.

When they go whitewater rafting together, pushing through rapids and scenic forests, their joy is tangible. There isn’t any discussion of why they love the outdoors, exactly, but their actions speak louder than words. The female must find her own, defiantly feminine power to defeat the villian.The Descent all starts with Sarah (Shauna Macdonald), Juno (Natalie Mendoza), and Beth (Alex Reid), three friends who love the outdoors. That she also seems to be more pointed toward male feeling on female captivity and suffering and stating a female must become “masculine” to defeat the villain is also bunk. Females LOVE slasher films, and that a female would not find this research is not a good thing. While I have gone to those theatres, it was only in daytime with a keen eye always on the lookout for a purse snatcher or assaulted before and after. If you subject studies to exploration grindhouse theatre houses, female audience is lower only due to the towns that those movie houses reside being in areas deemed as “rougher”. It has been studied and noted, in easily found publication and documentries, that the rate or female audience to mainstream slasher film is higher-55% at last counts- then the male audience.

So, I am only in chapter 3, and my change my view by the end of the author begins doing more research, but I am sneering a bit as she takes the bait and low polling result on the main audience to slasher films.

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