A good scare movie

Rating: 8/10 (31 December 2006)

If there was an award for "original presentation of a totally unoriginal premise", The Descent would win hands down.
It's not a perfect movie. The first hour of cave diving gets a bit monotonous before the monsters show up.
First, it was nice to see a movie where female characters evolve above "victim" and actually turn into kick-butt warrior princesses. The caves certainly added nicely to the very claustrophobic setting of the movie and were scary in their own right.
The essential conflict between the two main characters (the other four are largely there to be monster chow, unfortunately) came out pretty nicely and that scene at the end where Sarah exacts her own little bit of justice on Juno worked well.