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Title: Endless Descent
Post by: Warren H. on February 22, 1999, 01:04:13 PM
Did anybody else notice that the depth readouts on the computer screens give different readings from what the "actors" say?


Title: Endless Descent
Post by: Denise on March 13, 1999, 01:28:55 AM
I looked at the IMDB and apparently this film's other titles are La Grieta and The Rift.Which might be helpful if you want to rent it. Also Robbins is actually Leland Palmer from Twin Peaks.(Actor's name:Ray Wsie). Which is good for a laugh or two.


Title: Endless Descent
Post by: srvo@hotmail.com on August 12, 1999, 01:04:08 PM
I say this film late at night about 6 years ago.  There were some interesting looking monsters, but in the end this film was cheap-looking and predictable as to who was going to survive.  For underwater monster B-movies, I'm sticking with Leviathan!


                                       


Title: Endless Descent
Post by: srvo@hotmail.com on August 12, 1999, 01:05:58 PM
Oops.  I meant "saw", not "say".  Hookt on fonix werked fur me!


Title: Endless Descent
Post by: on October 23, 1999, 03:37:51 PM
I thought it was a pretty cool movie except from the irritating little faults.


Title: Endless Descent
Post by: Scaarge@AOL.com on February 25, 2000, 06:08:09 PM
What can I say, I like monsters and I liked this film.  I liked Ray Wise, too, no one can be effortlessly oily the way he can.  I'm a bit confused as to the purpose of the genetic accelerator; it seems (in movies other than this one, too) that these things are just programed to "make monsters" then switched on.  Does that sound like a well-thought-out experiment?


Title: Endless Descent
Post by: Paul H. on April 03, 2000, 10:11:31 AM
What can I say, I like Monsters and I like this movie.  I feel this should be the offical Tagline for this movie. No reason to analyze this movie.  Just watch it whenever you have nothing better to do then move on with your life.  Endless descent has a nice 1950's monster movie or godzilla feel to it.  


Title: Endless Descent
Post by: Chris K. on June 21, 2000, 04:41:44 PM
Wrong release title. U.S. release title was THE RIFT, but due to dumbass video distributors it was retitled ENDLESS DESCENT. In any case, it was a fun muvie to watch. The acting is miles away from a solution, but it was still entertaining. Now is it me or does the hero look more like Patrick Swazie(if I spelt the last name wrong, you can correct me on that). The special effects are impressive but are too puppet-like and stiff. Still, this was better than SLUGS.


Title: Endless Descent
Post by: Znucke on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
I saw this movie back in '93, what I can remember was that it I found it as bad as I found it good. Some idiotic scenes and some really cool monsters...squid..starfish..tentacle-things...now why has noone made a movie about H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu monsters...they have tentacles too!!! ;-)


Title: Endless Descent
Post by: parasital mucus consumer on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
It was nice,but it was not  quite great scenes,but  i liked the one scenary a lot.It's a  good movie it is cool!


Title: Endless Descent
Post by: David on April 11, 2002, 06:13:58 PM
Endless descent (La Grieta) Es una de mis peliculas favoritas, tiene un argumento que me va bastante, el unico problema que encuentro en la pelicula son los efectos especiales, el submarino esta bien hecho pero podrian haberse esmerado un poco y haber sacado mas imagenes subacuaticas


Title: Endless Descent
Post by: Neville on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
Piece of useless Trivia: the actor who plays Sven, one of the divers, is Pocholo Martínez Bordiú, loosely related to the deceased dictator Francisco Franco. He's been in a couple of "Miami Vice" episodes and he's a minor celebrity in Spain after appearing in several Big Brother-esque realities.

About the movie itself, it's actaully OK, some of the best Juan Piquer Simon ("Slugs") has ever done. It's like on of those 50s sci-fi movies, but with some light gore, in the vein of those Italian Alien rip-offs. I watched it a few times when I was a kid and found it entertainning, if a bit silly.  


Title: Endless Descent
Post by: Alex on November 25, 2006, 04:09:03 PM
I thought this was a pretty good movie.
It had good speial effects and a great musical score by joel goldsmith.
Worth a rent.


Title: Endless Descent
Post by: Randomosity on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
The Captain's real name is R. Lee Ermey.

He not only was the DI from "Full Metal Jacket", but also stared in "Siege at Firebase Gloria", and hosts the show "Mail Call" on the History Channel.

Now, if I wanted to rent this movie from say...Blockbuster, should I look for "Endless Descent" or "The Rift"?


Title: Endless Descent
Post by: DJ Inferno on November 25, 2003, 06:03:29 AM
I liked this film. A variety of monsters, good cast, good flick/


Title: Re: Endless Descent
Post by: Dave Coleman on January 16, 2007, 05:47:45 PM
as the screenwriter hired to literally rewrite the project in a matter of weeks for juan piquer simon and executive producer dino de laurentiis, i had to combine earlier drafts by such diverse talents as colin wilson (great draft but literally 200+ pages of scientific jargon, accurate but deadly dull), a young duo who sold the pitch, etc.

the producers had already built the sets.  i was flown to spain to 'rewrite' the script with a week's notice and had to scramble just to get a passport in time for the departure.  in spain, i was told that each day, my writing would be read by dino via fax in the united states.  if dino liked it?

the project kept going.  if not?  they pulled the plug, because they'd already spent a ton of dough on the sets and didn't want to waste any more on, you know, a writer.   :drink:

finally, they liked what they read, because while it was ALIENS and the other underwater flix in 'hommage,' the real love and drive were for the Godzilla and 'bad' 50's SF flims which i missed so much.   i tried to sneak in every reference i could to other films of these genres, because i figured this would be my best shot.

nobody cared that it was cliched, as it was shootable.  i felt like quite a pro.

the film is undeservedly obscure.  one of the editors cut FIVE EASY PIECES and worked on CONAN!  the sound score by joel goldsmith is very good for a low budget film and ditto for the efx, far better than you would ever expect.

the story?  utter nonsense, as folks have rightly critiqued.  still, i would be remiss if i didn't say that in its own goofy way, the twisted logic of the story is as nightmarishly "incoherent" as a true nightmare (similar to the one i was living at the time attempting to write my way out this mess). 

hope the notes helped!


Title: Re: Endless Descent
Post by: Giant Claw Jr on March 09, 2008, 02:30:27 PM
ind of like that 60s sci fi series VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA where they would meet some pretty strange underwater ceatures like plankton monsters,fosslemen,seaweed ceatures,giant spider,underwater pirate ships,giant octapuss,sqiuds,sharks,sawfish,and being swollowed by a whale


Title: Re: Endless Descent
Post by: Joe the Destroyer on March 29, 2008, 01:01:06 PM
I still intend, one day, to force myself to sit through this.  I was enjoying the ridiculous monster count, but I think the dialogue was what got me. 


Title: Re: Endless Descent
Post by: FLU-BIRD on February 25, 2009, 02:15:42 AM
I can remeber a movie THE NEPTUNE FACTOR(OR DISASTER)WHERE THEY SEND THIS EXPERIMENTAL SUBMARINE DOWN TO SAVE THESE GUYS TRAPPED WHEN THE SEALAB SINK AFTER A QUAKE and can anyone ever remember VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA i mean the TV show came out with all sorts of monsters i mean like a GIANT OCTIPUSS ROCK CREATURES,A LIVING FLAME MONSTER A PLANKTON CREATURE A GIANT SEAWEED MONSTER AND EVEN A UNDERWATER SPIDER MONSTER AND EVEN WEREWOLVES AND MUMMIES


Title: Re: Endless Descent
Post by: Ramadwarf on May 23, 2012, 07:59:26 AM
It's cheap, very cheap. It's watchable though, very watchable. You've got R. Lee Ermy, Jack Scalia, Ray Wise and that bird walking about acting. REALLY bad monsters killing people and a plot borrowed from all over the place. Plus Jerry Goldsmith's brother doing the music!  :cheers: I thought it was really enjoyable for a one off hit. Nowhere near as good as 'Leviathan' (which to be fair was a complete rip off of John Carpenter's 'The Thing) or the big one, 'The Abyss'; but I think entertainment-wise it's on the same level as 'Deep Star Six' and 'Lords of the Deep'.

 I will admit to having rather high expectations for this film, mainly because I'd read so many reviews shouting about how many monsters there are in it. They're all sauntering about in the dark or blowing up just before you can make out the detail! And the trailer mentions the the effects were created by the makers of 'Alien' or 'Aliens' (don't remember), which is a pull. Then you catch a glimpse of one of them and wonder whether it was the guy who made the tea for the 'Aliens' special effects team that did it.

 Nevertheless I'll give the film a sweet thumbs up  :thumbup: