The Descent
May 29th, 2006
I can’t make my mind up whether this poster for the US release of last year’s British caving expedition horror movie The Descent is a really clever piece of work or a terrible mistake.
Seen at a small enough size - or, presumably, from far enough away - it looks precisely as skull-like as the makers intended. However, close-up the illusion falls apart horribly and you find yourself wondering why those women are so oddly positioned and how come the woman at the top of the picture has such long legs; if those are her feet showing up between those of the two women in the middle of the poster (and I can’t see who else’s they’d be) then by my reckoning she’s about 7 feet tall.
I suppose the thinking is that anyone who notices the poster’s flaws will still be looking at the poster, which is after all the point of the exercise…