Frighteningly bad

Rating: Null/10 (18 February 2006)

Getting 6 women lost in an unchartered cave with the land based equivalent of creatures that live at the bottom of the ocean isn't a bad idea for a film. But that's as far as The Descent should have got. The monsters aren't scary, they're cocks. And the film's actually more effective before they arrive. A lot more could have been made of why they were there etc, because their introduction is about as subtle as the musical score. Perhaps if they were a little more terrifying, the melodramatic orchestral bursts whenever one of the Dr Who type goons appears wouldn't have seemed so inappropriate. On the positive side, the cave claustrophobia is effective and there's a nice broken leg scene. Apart from that it's all a bit crap really.