the best ever last third of any British horror film

Rating: 9/10 (14 June 2007)

Two problems for me here, I'm not overly keen on 'suspense' as a device because it makes me very uneasy with not much pleasure associated and the other is I have a fear of crawling forward into narrow spaces. So, once the early girlie introductions are over and we begin to go down, I'm already wondering whether this 'torture' will be worth it. Of course it is, I start to relax just now and again enough to enjoy the harrowing descent and then was completely surprised by all the gloriously horrible final third. I purposefully not read about the story and just imagined they spend half the movie getting stuck and the rest getting unstuck. How wrong, this is a masterful movie and if the first section is possibly slightly overlong all is forgiven by the end which I have to rate as probably the best ever last third of any British horror film and clearly should be considered for any top twenty horror list.