Midnight Descent

Right after finishing my dinner at Marco’s Pizza with my family yesterday night (situated opposite LRT Kelana Jaya station), where you have to queue up for 15 minutes plus because it was full and the food was of a different Western variety (used a lot of mushrooms) and was pricier than the usual Pizza Hut, I went off to Jess’ house to collect the Mother’s Day present I asked her to buy for me when she went shopping at Pyramid, then to Ding’s house to pick him up, then dropped by at Andy’s house for a chit-chat, before landing at Shawn’s house at 11.30pm, an hour late after I phoned Kai Tzin at 10.30pm. (Fuh, super long sentence with multiple conjugators and assorted commas!)

Yeah, we went to Shawn’s house for the sole purpose of robbing the occupants of their assorted electronic equipments and other valuables hidden beneath wooden panels and large wedding photos. Nolah, where got so cruel one. Considering how the four of us (me, Heng, Kai Tzin, Ding) can all be completely trusted, and when Shawn surrendered his keys to Heng on the pretext of taking care of the house, how can we be tempted to steal!?

Anyway, we watched MTV Asia Awards 2006 up till 2am. Yeah, got performances here and there from various countries, and I especially liked the Teriyaki Boys’ song which was really.. groovy. The duet between Lee Ryan and Tata Young was nice although it was too slow for me tastes.

Nothing much to comment since I’m not exactly a music critic. Kai Tzin had to go back home after the show ended cause he had to work later in the morning, leaving three of us back in Shawn’s home which can be absolutely eerie if you have finished watching a horror movie and your mind, in its large playground, decided to play tricks on you.

Which is exactly what we did.

Ding brought his DVD The Descent, so we watched it in Shawn’s room, and not in the living room since:

i) We didn’t know how to operate the DVD player
ii) Obviously Shawn’s living room is too large for comfort to watch any horror movies of any sort

Tada, lights went off in Shawn’s room and the three of us sat huddling together watched the movie touted to be one of the scariest movies ever made.

SPOILERS AHEAD

As usual, you can’t make those sort of claims if only Western people are strangely and especially easy afraid of horror movies. The movie’s introduction was slow-moving, but after the three of us screamed colourful random profanities when the disgusting Gollum-like creatures appear suddenly out of nowhere, with sharp toothy fangs to boot, we realised that that was as scary as it could get. If you can count the part where one of the girls’ bone was jutting out of her leg, and it looked so absolutely painful that we could feel it on our own legs, that was scary in its own right.

Nothing much to describe or anything. All of us was rooting for the main character Sarah who, from being meek and weak turned into some vicious superwoman, and one by one everyone dies, save for Sarah, of course. Same ol’ storyline huh. (In the Japanese horror movie Kakashi, everyone dies! What a unique un-contemporary twist of an ending!)

Since the entire cast is a group of girls, we joked what would happen if our girl-friends (like Suet, Esther, Jess, Sarah) made a trip of their own to some unchartered cave, and something about how Esther, after endless screaming would be the first to die. (No offence <_<)

The ending was a little abrupt. I’m surprised that the usually strict reviewers from TheStar who never cease to mouth something bad about almost every horror movie in existence gave The Descent a B+ or something of that sort. It gets a C- from me. Or something.

Suffice to say, despite a little disappointed from the movie for not scaring me silly, I guess I was a little afraid after I started imagine Gollums jumping on me out of nowhere. It’s like 3.30am when the movie ended after all.

After finished locking everything up, I fetched Ding home, then only Heng (since Heng’s house is nearer to mine and I’m much too afraid to drive home alone from the long, dark stretch of USJ 1 with street lamps not working =.=). Reached home at 4am.