After a tragic accident, six friends reunite for a caving expedition. Their adventure soon goes horribly wrong when a collapse traps them deep underground and they find themselves pursued by bloodthirsty creatures. As their friendships deteriorate, they find themselves in a desperate struggle to survive the creatures and each other.
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.