I thought horror didn't scare me until this one ...

Rating: 10/10 (12 August 2008)

It was a winter evening, free to air T.V. was set for an evening of crap (how surprising), so I set off to my local DVD shop to hire a film. I said to the guy in the shop: "I want a film that's edgy, scary, not horror necessarily, but confronting. Also, I don't like cheap teen-slash-em horror films, they bore me and are just not creepy. So the rather enthusiastic chap in my DVD shop said. "You'll love The Descent" Well, he was right it scared the fu.cking crap out of me, not because of any really fantastic special effects (though, those that are used are amazing) but because of it's ambiance (and it's other characters). Do not read any spoilers because I came into this film not knowing what was ahead and it really made an impact. Congratulations to the Brits, a fantastic horror film that is just perfect. I've not been terrified before, at least not since The Thing (in 1981) and Alien when it, too, first went to the big screen.