Good shocker film

Rating: 9/10 (26 December 2006)

Descent is about a group of adrenalin addicted UK women who take a caving trip to hillbilly country in the USA. They start out the caving after a wild night of partying and everything seems to go just fine until there is a cave in that blocks the entrance. Then they find out they are in a cave no one has been in before. As they try and find another way out, they find they are not alone in the cave system. The humanoid inhabitants seem to have been in the cave for a very long time. And they are not vegetarians or mushroom eaters. The film is spent with the women kicking cave dweller ass while looking for an other way out. One of the women lost a child and husband at the beginning of the film, but that didn't seem to take a very prominent role in the film. They could have done without that part. Technically a good and exciting film with a relatively short intro to the characters. A nice film to watch in the dark with a large bowl of popcorn.