'Descendent' Review: A Close Encounter of the Terrifying Kind
Descendent may be the most effective use of allegory to explore a character’s fear of fatherhood since David Lynch’s Eraserhead. In crafting his seminal horror classic, Lynch filled the screen with surreal and unsettling imagery that, for some, made the film hard to engage with as anything more than a midnight movie. Descendent takes the opposite approach. Led by a pair of unaffected and approachable performances by Ross Marquand and Sarah Bolger, Descendent avoids the temptation to lapse into full-blown horror. Instead, it uses alien abduction to explore how a man’s concept of himself as a brave, confident and strong protector can fly out the window with the terrifying prospect of first-time fatherhood.
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