It takes you to hell and let you return to tell the experience

Rating: Null/10 (23 January 2006)

The previous movie of Neil Marshall was, in essence, a black comedy. There is no comedy in The descent. Everything is horrifying, terrifying, thrilling and scary. Six girls trapped underground and a common enemy. Not the crawlers, but themselves and their paranoia.
The origin of the movie, that car crash that will traumatize the leading female (Shauna McDonald) right from the first scene, and the next sequence, running through a hospital hallway with the lights going, tells you that this movie is not kidding. This is pure fear with steroids. This movie is to watch it behind your hands, or under the seat, or just to keep in tension until your veins pop out.
If we make a math, this is Alien+The shinning+Death line. Horror is horrible again. Horror movies have their mojo back, and a final advise. The less you read of it, the most you will enjoy it, and stay on your seat until the end of the credits. There is a final surprise that will give the whole movie it's true meaning. That cave is not the trap, is their own minds.