My thoughts on the Descent

Rating: 4/10 (30 January 2006)

This film was just utter rubbish it really was, the creatures looked like Reapers from Blade II, I couldn't quite understand the bit of exposition at the beginning between her soon to die husband and the Chinese/American girl either. The actual concept for the film is really cool with an all girl ensemble and pot holing subject but I thought when it came to the creatures it was just silly andpoorly executed. The claustrophobia was scary enough to carry the film alone and if they had to throw monsters in then I think they could've designed something better. And what was all that rubbish about one of the girls being able to explain what the creatures were?. She went from being scared to a flippin scientist. I suppose that was just for our benefit? Well I ain't buying it. Dog Soldiers was a far better executed film even though the idea was derivative of Night of the Living Dead being trapped in a farmhouse an all but if this pile of rubbish is all Neil Marshall has to offer then god help us when he makes Outpost, his supposed return to horror form by tackling the zombie genre! He'll probably turn that into joke as well.