LionsGate Delivers

Rating: 10/10 (24 July 2006)

One of the best horror films I've seen in a very long time. I had almost given up on the genre completely. The Descent proves there are still great horror stories to be told.
This movie works on a lot of levels. The story is pretty realistic and it takes you through a group of friends out for an afternoon of cave exploration. One of the cave tunnels collapses, trapping them and they are forced to go deeper, much farther down. And then they discover they are being hunted by creatures that live down there.
The movie takes some time at the beginning to develop the women's characters, some might feel it's too slow at the beginning, but I felt it added realism. I liked all the scenes of rock climbing in the caves, everything felt real. And the creatures were believable to a degree because they were based more on nature's odd developments.
It's a great horror movie. Don't skip this one, it's really worth seeing.