How did this boring, unintelligent piece of crap get an IMDb rating over 7?

Rating: 1/10 (24 December 2014)

I mean... did the studio hire everybody and their families with a FaceBook account to vote it up? And what really astonishes me is I've seen reviews comparing this to 'As Above So Below'.
What they have in common? Caves.
The difference is that 'As Above So Below' is an excellent little tension-building dread-fest. Whereas 'The Descent'... is just a piece of tedious, dragging, never-ending crap.
Oh - and another common point: they both have obnoxious protagonists.
But 'As Above' slowly puts them further and further through the ringer, till you are hanging on their every word and deed.
'The Descent's crew of loathsome, vacuous, self-absorbed bitches could all have stabbed one another to death in the first 10 minutes, and it might actually have been an interesting film. And IF that had happened, we could have been spared the initial half-hour of nothing happening (except one, very cheap and completely plot-irrelevant shock) and all the den mother camaraderie that was ffffffffforced into the script through a keyhole.
Summary:
Awful characters - you need them all to die, as quickly as possible.
Stupid, derivative monsters - in fact, laughable and a little bit embarrassing, given it's made in 2005 - and a back-story for them that makes not even a glimmer of sense. Which might not have been a problem, were it not for the film also having ...
No plot.
No tension.
About one and one-half scares, in total.
Then a waiting, waiting, waiting for the thing to JUST END WILL YOU just END!!!!!!
Terrible, burn it, get rid of it and move on.
1 star and it doesn't even deserve that.
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