The Descent
Scream your last breath.
Scream your last breath.
Adventure, Horror
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2005
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After a personal tragedy, Sarah joins her friends on a caving expedition in the Appalachian Mountains. But when a rockfall traps them deep underground, their adventure turns into a nightmare. As they search for a way out, the group discovers they are not alone—lurking in the darkness are savage, cave-dwelling creatures. With rising tension and dwindling trust, the women must fight to survive against both the predators and each other.
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Runtime:
100 min
Release date:
8 Jul 2005
Country:
GB
Languages:
English
Budget:
$3,500,000
Revenue:
$57,130,027
Awards:
8 wins & 22 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Marshall could very well be the Caravaggio of the B-movie.
– Sarah Lilleyman,
TIME Magazine,
15 Oct 2008
rotten:
This intermittently effective UK horror thriller carefully establishes the psychological relationships among the women, then squanders this calibrated and generally plausible setup with a series of crude, implausible, and scattershot horror effects.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
24 Sep 2007
fresh:
The Descent sustains a level of intensity that most horror films can barely muster for five minutes.
– Scott Tobias,
AV Club,
5 Aug 2006
rotten:
For my money, [the] first 20 or so minutes are the best in the film. Once the real adventure gets underway in the cave, things get less interesting.
– Claudia Puig,
USA Today,
4 Aug 2006
rotten:
While the movie has wonderful moments of unmotivated tension that make sure we're quite ill at ease from the beginning, it's also got a few too many of the kind of cheap boo-scares that indicate a director not fully trusting his grip on you.
– Geoff Pevere,
Toronto Star,
4 Aug 2006