AdventureHorrorThriller

The Descent

2006
★ 7.2 / 10
A caving expedition goes horribly wrong when six explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators.
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Reviews
★★★★★
The Descent is a film that plays with the theme of claustrophobia. Effective usage of lighting. I am pleasantly shocked by how well orchestrated this film is.
★★★★★
When I read that "The Descent" featured an all women cast I expected a T+A extravaganza with spelunkers in too tight T-shirts and panties cavorting beneath the earth. I was disappointed. What I saw was a scary movie. I am not by nature claustrophobic but a few...
★★★★★
The Descent is an exceptionally good film. I just wanted to state that at the start of this review, because it is easy to dismiss a film like The Descent as having some good gore scenes, but little else to commend it from a directorial or cinematographic point...
★★★★★
Regular readers of my comments know I am interested in cinematic architecture. There's built space of course, but much cooler is when a filmmaker deals with the non-physical: architectural fire or water. Smoke. And then there's perhaps the hardest of them, a...
★★★★★
The concept of crawling through tight, winding, unfamiliar tunnels is scary enough. But, of course, this movie moves far beyond that. This movie has a great setup with a close group of long time friends having fun and reuniting for different outdoor adventure...
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