A group of female friends that enjoy adventure embark on a journey into a mysterious cave that holds a bloodthirsty secret.

Rating: 1/10 (17 August 2006)

To say the least, I did not feel to strongly about The Descent as far as horror movies go. First of all, it ended with too many loose ends that left the audience hanging. The movie was basically a one hour something bloodbath. In short, there was no steady plot line and the scares, i feel, were amateur.
In the beginning, the main character looses her husband and child in an eerie car crash. Because of this, she suffers from reocurring dreams which haunt her. These events turn out to have no significance at all in the end.
Later, the character named Juno, one of the friends that goes into the caves, seems like a shady character, but nothing is explained about her motives either.
The cheap scares in the movie were only generated through human-like monsters in the cave that resembled demented Gollum look-a-likes. In the resolution, if you can call it that, the origins of these monsters in failed to be communicated also. By the time i left the theater, I was confused and disappointed in myself for watching another "horror" flick that failed to deliver the goods.
On a brighter note though, I have to say I thought the idea was original and it could have been developed into a great thriller. The camera work was great too, but the story just ruined it all for me.