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The Descent (2005) & a SUPER RARE BEER
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Welcome back to LHOHP! Jumping into this heavy hitter from the 2000's, The Descent! Also, a beer so rare it isn't even on untappd! Cheers!
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Podcast Closure and Audience Engagement
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Jack. Welcome back to Little Hop So Horace Podcast. I'm John, your host as always. Thank you again for tuning in for the the final few episodes we're going to be doing here on the podcast. ah Can't thank you guys enough for the support over the past few years and everything. Just tuning in, feedback, all that stuff to support. It really did and does mean a lot to me. I do want to ask you guys a favor though. If you have listened or anything like that, give me some feedback on ah on Facebook. Tell me some stuff that you liked about it.
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Stuff he didn't like about it anything anything any you know memories. I don't know anything like that ah It'd be cool to hear some you know from some of the fans from across the world because I know that we did reach um a lot more countries than I ever fucking expected to so Just wanted to thank you guys again for that and hope you guys continue to enjoy What's remaining of this ride now without further ado.
Introduction to 'The Descent' Movie
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Yes in case you're wondering I am a little sick Add some nasty fucking stomach virus Wipe through the house this this week. So um
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Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna see what we can do here We should be alright, but um you know if I have to pause to clear my throat or whatever you're gonna have to excuse me anyway today We are doing the descent right from 2005. This is a movie that I've been wanting to do For a while now and like I said, we're just gonna be hitting heavy hitters or personal favorites Until this podcast is done. So this is one of them ah Sitting at an 87% on rotten tomatoes and 7.2 out of 10 on IMDB Our rating eight and a half out of 10 really fucking good movie fun as shit um
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I don't know if it's all-time great category and you know, maybe we'll talk about that later um But it's an awesome. We'll talk about it. We'll talk about it Beer we're
Personal Anecdote and Movie Context
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drinking tonight. So we're actually doing a super rare fucking beer, right? I looked all over untapped for this This beer, right? I couldn't find it. I typed it in Every which way like capital I went with a brewery everything but anyway, I guess I'm the first person to drink this on here This is a Canada dry ginger ale ah Yeah, so there's actually no ABV because it's not a fucking beer. It's ginger ale
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I have to drink something on here, right? ah But yeah, my tummy's a little upset still, so we're gonna go. We're gonna go with the Canada Dry. I hope you guys enjoyed that little bit of a dumbass humor. Anyways, let me take a sip.
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Beautiful just exactly what I needed on a night like tonight Alright, so what do we like about this movie, right? It's very original, right?
Analysis of Movie's Strengths and Weaknesses
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We're tapping into two different fears at once, which I think is really cool. The whole claustrophobia Aspect I can't say that word right now. Let's try again the whole claustrophobia aspect. There we go and um There's some pretty cool fucking scary creatures in here also um Really good effects, right? The infrared camera scenes really add like another fun element um To this film and kind of like gives you another reason to be afraid of the dark um Acting is good. You know, everything's pretty solid start to finish um What we didn't like ah The jump scares were a little lame
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Um a little predictable. Uh, I thought that maybe those could have been executed a little better. Uh, they they just felt like I don't know just every other fucking horror movie. Um In that aspect like I don't know nothing really caught me off guard here. Maybe it's just I don't know being a horror movie veteran you're just you you kind of predict when they're gonna happen and most of the time you're right. Um i Don't know but uh and also Sarah's character, right? She was like a little bit of a um ah Debbie downer it like in like the beginning parts of the film like she's kind of like You know, but I get it and then you know, we'll talk about that wine spoilers cuz
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We know why she's not in a great mood. And I can't imagine any of us fucking would be after what happens to her, um you know, early on. But overall, this is a really solid film. Good for any time of year, especially if you're going to go caving or spelunking or whatever the kids call it these days. ah But if you haven't seen this movie, ah come back around the five minute mark. And yeah, without further ado, we're going to jump into spoilers. As soon as I can remember where the button is. There you go.
Technical Difficulties and Personal News
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that's right it's spoiler time so um yeah you know what i didn't even check to see if my fucking microphone is hooked up is it hooked up today yeah we're good oh man and so we moved our office around because we're gonna like we're trying to make room for baby number two like i mentioned you know a couple weeks ago um And Yeah, so like I forgot that like my shit's just all over the place I like took apart my desk like my little I have like ah had a bunch of little horror pictures and you know a little horror statues and just whatever like I was like a
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Fucking Nosferatu magnet hanging out here looking at me. I have like a random skull You know, just trying to get in the mood trying to you know be festive or or whatever um getting that spooky mindset and My beer colders gone I had a little beer fridge here that I bought for you know, 20 bucks and it it just holds a few cans But it was neat. I had it covered in all my horror stickers and all that stuff um Probably could have saved this for before spoilers. But yes, it just ah it was a fun little ride fun little little side thing to do for a minute and uh just looking forward to you know like i said get this book finished and and do some cool shit here in the in the coming years hopefully and if not regardless i still got all this stuff to listen to uh whenever i want to you know maybe we'll come back to it i don't fucking know maybe maybe maybe all right um spoilers let me take a sip man i need my fucking throat it's killing me
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Hopefully it doesn't sound too bad on your guys' end, that would be fucking terrible.
Opening Scene and Plot Setup
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um Anyway, so can we talk about the gut-wrenching opening of this fucking film? Like Jesus Christ, it's, you know, it's just a family, you know, out, well, like ah a dad and a daughter just kind of watching.
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you know mom after white water rafting which I would never fucking do no thank you there's too many like variables there and like I don't know stories of people getting trapped under rocks and just getting like destroyed by water until like somebody comes and gets you but by then it's too late oh no thank you man not at all they get out of there and you know dad takes a fucking random spear to the head or whatever the hell that was some like middle pole that came off of like a work truck and it went right through his head and um i mean i guess it went through the daughter's head too or something because they don't really show it thank god but
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you know you do get that impression that it didn't end well for her and given her a meltdown in the hospital so you know she loses her family this is like you know a few minutes into the film and she's the sole survivor and like I personally could not fucking imagine trying to move on from that so like I get why she's you know a bit of a debbie downer here but like also this is a horror movie i'm not really here for that i guess if you're trying to do it for character development i guess but there wasn't a whole lot of that here it was just like her being a debbie downer and like a a trauma queen right that's kind of what i'm calling her here i'm going to coin that um not drama queen trauma queen
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and then all of a sudden she goes the full blown fucking final girl badass mode here for it like and it just kind of comes out of nowhere and then at the very end she melts down again it becomes that you know fragile little dove we've known in the beginning of the movie ah But she does, uh, you know move on anyway and heads to a little getaway weekend with
Spelunking and Claustrophobia
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the girls, right? Not exactly a conventional one filled with wineries or you know painting or whatever the fuck girls do I don't know what girls do ah I really don't I I don't know But these ones want to go spelunking. They want to go caving. They want to go into a cave and and and do adventurous stuff and of course, they're gonna do it hungover because they party too hardy the night before and they had too many fucking
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you know wines or beers or I think the they were smoking pot too but they made it out to be the super taboo thing like this was 2005 like it's not I don't know but it's just pot what's the big deal I don't know but I guess it was still super taboo back then um but anyway you know time time is now the group heads out, they arrive at their site, they gear up, and and you know let the adventure begin. And after rappelling into the entrance of this huge cave, like this huge opening, and getting scared by some pretty shitty CGI bats, the group begins their journey. right Now, it it would be at this moment that I'd be looking for new friends, right because like my idea of fun, um you know after drinking all white and like drinking all night, there's there's no fucking way
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that I'm doing that and then trying to squeeze my fat ass through some tight rock corridors. um That's just not, that's not what I'm trying to do here, man. Like let's just hang out around a campfire maybe. I don't know. Like we go hiking after we do like a heavy night of drinking, but very casual hiking, right? Nothing, nothing that's gonna break your balls. Nothing like this. Like this is like labor intensive shit and this is not for me. So anyway, hope you liked your claustrophobia at home. Cause it's about to get a little, not to get a little uncomfortable here.
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so one by one these girls go through these this very narrow tunnel until Sarah gets stuck right she has a little bit of a meltdown she's the last one like anyone would I think everybody would would say they'd play it cool until you're in that situation you're like well fuck this is worst case scenario I'm never getting out I'm probably gonna die here um And well luckily Beth, you know her her friend is right there to turn around and breathe some unknown variant of mesothelium right into her face because God knows what kind of dust and shit is down there that you're kicking up um Thanks for that. I'm sure she was very thrilled um But there's there was a very good reason to panic it turns out because the cave does indeed start collapsing So now like your biggest fear has become your reality and now the big reveal is begins as as everything is is now like it's not they're not where they thought they were right Juno reveals that um you know she forgot to check her ego at the door right so they're there in a whole new cave system brand new never discovered all this other shit so you know the other place was like a tourist trap or whatever
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And she wanted this to be special and for them to, you know, discover this together, they can name it together, blah, blah, blah. And so now, you know, they they try to do everything right, but Juno fucked everything up from the start. So, okay, and now that I'm reading this again, that might change what I have to say at the end. Because she really did set them up for failure. But now they're stuck underground.
Unexplored Cave Discovery
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and um having no idea where to go or how to get there they have to push on because what the fuck else are you gonna do and you have to fucking get on right um so the first obstacle that they they deal with obviously there's this like random underground canyon that they have to cross and you know they have to throw the ropes and the cams and everything and and tie out and, you know, drag everybody across. And this is where the tension starts to grow a little bit between Juno and Sarah. And I lost my connection already. This is fucking cool. Let's just wait for it to come back. Come on, Elon Musk, you dickhead. I know you're in the fucking White House now, but don't forget about us little people that have your goddamn internet. We're paying your bills, you douchebag. Hello? Did I lose you? Did I lose you? Cool.
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Oh, no, we're back. Hold on. Okay, we're back. Sorry about that again. But you guys are probably used to that by now me bitching about Elon Musk and his shitty ass internet. It is actually decent internet. It's just like, bro, I pay you a lot of money for this and for it to cut out every time I try to record. It's literally the reason I got your internet was so I can do this. Oh, I need to set a sip of beer.
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And yes, it's still ginger ale. So the group has to cross this canyon. They do other stuff. um Juno decides to go hero a mode to try to make up for her, you know, previous fuckups, I guess. It almost dies trying to make the hardest way possible across the canyon, but luckily they save her. um But soon after that, the girls stumble upon a cave painting, right? So this is kind of reassuring. Maybe there is another fucking way out. That's what it says on here anyway.
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before they make any real progress holly who is my favorite character uh falls through a hole and breaks her fucking leg um pretty graphic fucking scene that i'm trying to put it back into place too um and that happens while uh you know sarah's off exploring on her own where she spots something ahead in the tunnel so i don't really know if she was just like i i must have missed that part and maybe just taking notes or something um But I don't know why she wasn't helping, ah trying to figure out what was going on. But she does catch a glimpse of something, um someone or something.
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yet maybe not that one but and i couldn't pass up the opportunity can play me right it wasn't called it wasn't called i want to just the golem call you know and he's a column column but i couldn't find it anywhere so uh... i really wanted to do some cool stuff for this episode but i couldn't find couldn't find what i wanted to do i was gonna make this super ridiculous but i didn't do it uh... i was just going to do the sydney loppers girls just wanna have fun and just hit that button anytime something fucking terrible happened ah at some reading my notes just been really obnoxious about it just hit it like 12 different times um anyway so the group continues their trek through this mysterious cave crawling over literally thousands of bones nobody's alarmed nobody's saying hey
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why are we crawling on all these bones you know like that would be something i would probably bring up to everybody else that was crawling nearby me but they just kept going i guess um so they flip on the infrared right somebody does the camera and we're finally able to see what sarah saw and this is the reveal of the crawlers right is what they're known as and honestly that's a great fucking reveal i i think that that was very cool and creative and honestly i wasn't um The first time I watched this movie, I
Creature Encounter and Survival Challenges
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wasn't expecting that. I thought it was just kind of a movie about you know people just getting stuck in a cave, like ah a claustrophobia movie. And you add in the element of being like potentially stuck underground. like And you may never find your way out. And now you have to not only find your way out,
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um but now you have to battle these like creepy fucking humanoid creatures that are trying to fucking kill you and eat you like get the fuck out of here these things are running up walls like they're clearly better equipped to live down here than you are they're scary as fucking shit right they're terrifying creatures panic sets in with the group right Holly gets bit in the fucking neck she's the first victim um juno tries her best to save holly but you know it it doesn't really work out the group splits up they're running every fucking which way tripping and falling all over the place it's a very effective strategy you know when you're trying to like save your own life i guess but as i said juno tries to to save holly loses the battle she does take out one of them in the process and then she goes to take out a second one but it's actually beth she stabs beth through the neck killing her
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and i mean what a great getaway girls weekend but uh you know that's going to be our so in the midst of all this panic um the girls take refuge in their respective hiding places and as they begin to assess their new threat so to speak and they soon discover that these creatures can't see they rely on sound they're mostly like fucking bats basically i guess it's what the doctor was saying And now they have to find a way to silently navigate this dark-ass cave system that they have no idea how to get out of, get out of, or if there even is a way to get out of, right? in ah In the dark with limited resources, right? And battling these fucking things along the way. But like other aspects of my life, turns out I was premature about something.
Tension and Betrayal
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Beth did not die, right? I thought she was fucking dead because Sarah finds her later and um Beth warns her against Juno.
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And saying that she was the one that got stabbed in the neck and then just bailed on her now I'm gonna say what i I had saved for the end um Initially like what are you supposed to do? Okay, so you accidentally stab somebody there's a reaction. I'm not saying I would do this Hypothetically you're in this position you stab one of your friends through the fucking neck right with it with a hiking post whatever I you're a mile underground or however fucked far you are and you don't know if you're gonna get out you don't know how you're gonna get out you don't know the route to get out how physically able like how far do you drag somebody along uncomfortably before you know inevitably they're going to die
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right so was she that selfish if she was just like eh now would i've tried to like maybe like help her out and just like finish her off i don't know maybe i don't know i don't know what i would have done in that situation i don't fault juno entirely for that um but apparently sarah does and we know that because of how she reacted in the very end Anyway, so um but like a good friend, you know, Sarah bashes Beth, you know Bashes your fucking head in beats her to death. So again, you know that is still our
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and At this point Sarah has turned in a full badass ah Final girl at this point of the movie She just goes off killing three of these fucking creatures in like the span of like five minutes, right? She's just going off and really intense like with intent um It's like all of her past trauma. She's just like weaponizing it now and But the other girls, you know, they're they're split off from Sarah They're continuing their journey trying to escape and they encounter another obstacle It's and it's another king in type thing. You have to plant their cans cams and rope across um I would say that this is probably the coolest death But I already used my my kill of the week button twice and I said my jokes. I'm not gonna redo it My dumb dick joke um Sam goes out as she's trying to set the route and there she goes out blazing because she encounters one of these crawlers and
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and the middle of her climb and it slashes her neck she stabs the fucking thing it falls into the water below but uh you know it ends up killing her in the process and i really love the visual of her like spinning around with blood spewing from her fucking neck and like her like little headlamp just kind of slowly spinning like that was a really cool that was a cool fucking kill you know what fuck it we're gonna do it again
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Yeah, so I don't I don't care. It's my last couple weeks. I don't we don't have any fucking rules anymore, right? There are no fucking rules to how many of these
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i can do honestly and i think the more more is better uh we need more kills of the weeks anyway this is for the yeah all the weeks you guys aren't gonna get any anymore you know what i mean um but becca's next on the menu right so we're almost at the end of the movie here uh becca and juno are the last two of that group and becca's next uh the creatures pulled her back into the tunnel and uh she's disemboweled right they just have a little feast there in the tunnel or girl Juneau plunges into the water below I don't i didn't see how she got down there um must have been taking notes or trying to write a dick joke or something trying to be funny um and we thought that the ah you know she fights off a crawler down there that we thought was already dead
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um Turns out it wasn't but it just took one little move of the knife and it died So it wasn't really ah a big fight, but she reunites with Sarah
Climactic Escape and Conclusion
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right now. This scene is what you fucking came for Now the rest of the movies been pretty solid up to this point But I think this scene is really just like chef's kiss, right? This is fucking great These two final girls and this is why it kind of bummed me how it ended but these two final girls go absolutely a shit killing the fuck out of these creatures like not in self-defense not in self-defense at all they're out here with intent they are trying to inflict as much pain on these things as they fucking can so many fun effects tons of blood creative kills and a really awesome way to end the movie
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Now, again, I don't know how I feel about the whole stabbing of Juno in the leg at the end from Sarah right after they get out of that, like, especially because you're not even out of the cave yet. and It's kind of a ballsy move. Imagine stabbing your friend in the leg to leave her for dead and then, like, you just realize that that corridor you're hiking up is a dead end. You have to come back past her.
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you know what
Review Wrap-Up and Teaser
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i mean like but that's not how it happens and you know a bunch of the crawlers overtake juno and there's a very uh beautiful shot of sarah climbing up this staircase of bones towards the one little bit of light creeping through the the you know earth i don't know and uh and she gets out uh and sarah escapes and that of course concludes another memorable weekend with the girls um yeah so like i said very fun movie uh original concept well executed um definitely worth checking out um if you haven't seen it and you let me ruin it for you that's your fault you guys know that by now
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um Okay, yeah, we're one episode closer to the finish line here guys, but don't think I'm counting down like that because I'm not but um Yeah next week. We're gonna do the the collector That's a little bit of a ah hidden gem i I think and we'll talk about that more next week. So I hope you guys have a good ah Weekend and all that shit coming up. Hopefully you enjoy some of before we get to the holiday season Even though a lot of people already consider a day after fucking Halloween, you know Christmas these days, but you know, I don't know soak in the spookiness while you can and we will catch you guys next week Cheers