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Deft direction and strong performances from its all-female cast guide The Descent, a riveting, claustrophobic horror film.
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Marshall could very well be the Caravaggio of the B-movie. Oct 15, 2008 | Full Review…
Marshall could very well be the Caravaggio of the B-movie.
Sarah Lilleyman
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. Sep 24, 2007 | Full Review…
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
The film draws on some of horror's most memorable scenarios. Nov 24, 2006 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
The film draws on some of horror's most memorable scenarios.
George Palathingal
The Descent sustains a level of intensity that most horror films can barely muster for five minutes. Aug 5, 2006 | Rating: B+
The Descent sustains a level of intensity that most horror films can barely muster for five minutes.
Scott Tobias
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. Aug 4, 2006 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
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
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. Aug 4, 2006 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
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
The best horror film since The Blair Witch Project. Nov 20, 2019 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
The best horror film since The Blair Witch Project.
Micheal Compton
A smart, fresh and exhilarating genre movie. Apr 24, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
A smart, fresh and exhilarating genre movie.
Adele Hartley
An all-female cast, a claustrophobic cave setting draped in red light, and an anarchic, vicious fight to the death...need I say more about one of the most physically taxing movies of the century? Oct 1, 2018 | Full Review…
An all-female cast, a claustrophobic cave setting draped in red light, and an anarchic, vicious fight to the death...need I say more about one of the most physically taxing movies of the century?
Sean Fennessey
The Descent is already unusual for being a horror movie with an all-female cast, but it's even more unique for being the kind of movie that explores the damage caused by a friend's betrayal. Mar 8, 2018 | Full Review…
The Descent is already unusual for being a horror movie with an all-female cast, but it's even more unique for being the kind of movie that explores the damage caused by a friend's betrayal.
Eliza C. Thompson
Here is a movie so precise and cautious with its material that every moment, every suggestion or action, becomes an experience that involves us to alarming lengths. Jul 31, 2014 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Here is a movie so precise and cautious with its material that every moment, every suggestion or action, becomes an experience that involves us to alarming lengths.
David Keyes
Super-scary and vicious, both psychologically and physically, this cleverly produced chill-ride is edgy British horror at its very best. Oct 6, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Super-scary and vicious, both psychologically and physically, this cleverly produced chill-ride is edgy British horror at its very best.
Alan Jones
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