About The Descent

Why descend into Heck?  Descent Into Heck began in 2015 as an offshoot of The Author's Files, a website dedicated to pursuing truth in the classical tradition by continually analyzing politics, culture, entertainment, and the intersections between all three.  At its finest, we believe that horror has the ability to illuminate our most repressed and primal fears, to show the natural conflict between good and evil instinct, and to convey the tragedy of human fallenness in a way that's uniquely emotional and stirring.  At its worst, we view it as a vile and loathsome imitation of a genre that will probably deal in the vile and loathsome but has the capability and calling to do so in a way that's purposeful, artistic, and provocative.

We sift through the ever growing body of suspense and all its subsets, let fans know which new and old, major and indie films, shows, games, etc. are worthy of their attention, and try to deduce just what the more meaningful works are trying to say about human nature, sin, God, life, the universe, and everything.  A handful of works we admire for completely different reasons includes The Shining (film and book), [Rec], The Village, Alien(s), The Cabin in the Woods, Black Swan, Hellboy, Teeth, P.T. on the Playstation 4, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Charles Williams' Descent Into Hell (although we don't really get it), and anything by Michael Crichton.

Descent Into Heck is dedicated to studying horror on a more critical level and was created for fellow thriller junkies who demand a smarter, more impactful kind of scary movie, but it was mostly created because we consume far too many of these and feel we should do something halfway productive about it.  We're the Virgil to your Dante, the Charon to your Orpheus, so let us descend into Inferno and look boldly into the heart of darkness.