One Of The Decades Best Horror Films

Rating: 7/10 (13 December 2007)

It's bleak and tragic, manages to invert and avoids a few cliché's, and the directing, sound, and especially lighting are pretty good. The stories nothing special, but that's not what's important here, it's the claustrophobic, dark, lost, nightmarish quality that all horror films seek, but rarely achieve, that is captured really well here. Anyway, I saw it for free, and I thought it was good, I'm tired of CG ghosts(as I'm sure you are too). Make sure you watch the UK Ending too, it's the icing on the cake, literally, the US version is s*%$.
I don't mean to subtract too much from the story, but at the time this was coming out I think there was another horror film called, "The Cave"."The Descent" was made first though it was released in the states after, and though their basically about the same thing, which is people fighting monsters in a cave, "The Cave" was every horror/action cliché you could imagine, while this managed to generate genuine suspense and a sense of doom, as well as the usual gore. Also it includes an all female cast, a rarity in horror films, especially since the characters are not just sexualized teens. One of the best horror films of the past decade, which serves as a working example that a talented director, writer, cast and crew can make any idea into something worth viewing.