Product: The Descent (Original Unrated Cut) [Blu-ray] (2006)
Rating: 4.0
You think it's dark when you turn out the lights?
A bevy of thrill-seeking chicks run afoul a gaggle of cannibalistic humanoid cave dwellers in Neil Marhsall's follow-up to the genre-respected Dog Soldiers. The Descent is a claustrophobic, oozing, gut-munching feast for horror fans, replete with a creepy, "no-way-out" feel and chock full of abominable, bat-like humanoid creatures with a taste for flesh. These are easily the most interesting horror villains in recent years. Who are they? What are they? Where did they come from? How long have they been down there? Imagine their gleeful suprise when a crew of old friends decide to explore their bleak subterranean domain in the dense hills of Appalachia. The dinner bells are a-ringin'. Carnage and compound fractures ensue as the ladies first find themselves trapped miles below the earth's surface in an "unexplored" cave system and then at the mercy of the "Crawlers", and from there on in it's a race to the surface with those slow of foot becoming lunch. The Descent may feel like two movies folded into one, but it works. Mucho bloody fun for genre fans.