If you loved Alien vs Predator you'll love this

Rating: 1/10 (4 April 2006)

I love horror films and lower expectations accordingly but this appalling piece of lazy plagiarism stinks any way you look at it. Trite scripts, zero characterisation and amateur hour acting have always been a staple of the genre but an original way with the material can lift up even the lowest budget horror and that's precisely what's missing here. Every single scene and "shock" is lifted wholesale from other movies and remade very, very badly. Most damning of all though the whole "directorial style" is filched so completely from John Carpenter's "The Thing" that when they even start playing the main theme from that classic you'll wonder why the lawsuits didn't swiftly fly across the Atlantic. What really riles though is this "give it a break it's British" attitude our film critics have been displaying since about 1980. The British film industry is a corpse more putrid and frightening than anything you'll see in this movie. I don't know where directors rise up from now but after watching the soulless artifice of the Descent I'm guessing advertising. If Alfred Hitchcock were alive today he'd just be a fat man working on his Father's fruit and veg stall.