The Descent

The Descent was direct and written by Neil Marshal. It was released on the 4th of August of 2006. This film has won seven awards and has been nominated for eight. One of the many awards that was won includes the Empire award for the best horror film, and also the Golden Trailer award for the best thriller. In its opening weekend the movie made 8,911,330 showing on 2,095 screens. Its total gross at the beginning of October was around 26,005,908

The Descent is a 99 minute long film. The first shock of the movie comes at the very beginning of the movie which involves the death of Sarah's husband and daughter. Then for about the next 30- 40 minutes of the movie a Sarah's and her group of five friends are exploring what they thought was an undiscovered cave. The first part of the movie would make you believe that it is not a scary film. Nothing exciting happens until one of the girls start to hear things and sees what appeared to her to be a man in the dark.

As they women continued on their journey they encountered many events with these ugly nasty creatures. After killing several of them and having several of the girls killed by the creatures they discovered that they are like bats. They are blind and hunt for their pray through sound.

One of the women, Juno accidentally killed one of the other friends while trying to fight off the creatures and as the women fell she grabbed Juno's necklace that was engraved saying "Love Each Day". When Sarah found the friend just before she died she gave Sarah the necklace which revealed that Juno had, had an affair with Sarah's husband. By the end of the movie Sarah and Juno were the only two survivors. Sarah showed Juno the necklace to let her know that she knew about the affair then stabbed her in the leg so the creatures could get her.

The movie ends with Sarah falling hitting her head on a rock, while unconscious she dreamed she found and exit and reached the car but was awakened by the screams of Juno. Its last scene is of Sarah hallucinating and imagining her daughter in the cave with her.

This movie has received many great ratings from the critics at rotten tomatoes. One critic Kam Williams from Upstage Magazine says...

Benefiting from well-concealed reveals, shocking developments,
truly unnerving antagonists, taut editing and a hair-raising score,
this never-ending nightmare is easily the best horror flick of 2006

Writter Manohla Dargis wrote in the New York times

...What follows is a sensationally entertaining escalation of frights, the kind
that make you wiggle and squirm as you alternately laugh at your own gullibility
and marvel at the filmmaker’s cunning and craft. And what is all
the better,
and indeed helps make “The Descent” one of the better horror entertainments of
the last few years, is how Mr. Marshall, working with the resourceful
cinematographer Sam McCurdy, messes with our heads long before the monsters do
simply by tapping into one of our
most primitive fears, that of the dark

Trivia on the Film

In order for the women to prepare for the movie they were taken to a rock-climbing center in Derbyshire. Also in order for the women in the cast to be genuinely afraid the identity of the creatures were kept from them. When they had their first encounter with them they were really afraid and ran off set screaming and laughing.

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