Rating: R
Genre:
Horror
Release Date: 12/26/2006
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD-EX/DD2
Run Time: 98 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Lions Gate
A group of close female friends on a yearly adventure vacation find themselves trapped and hunted in a series of caves by an unknown force that lurks in the shadows in
The Descent, the second
horror feature from
Dog Soldiers writer/director
Neil Marshall. After suffering a devastating car crash one year before,
Sarah (
Shauna Macdonald) is lured to the States with her friend
Beth (
Alex Reid) to a special spelunking trip by the fearless
Juno (
Natalie Mendoza), who abruptly fled from the U.K. after
Sarah's accident. Along with two old friends and a new acquaintance of
Juno's, the group embark on a cave expedition that takes a turn for the worse after a rock fall leaves them stranded in an uncharted cave with no map and only a handful of supplies to last them the rest of the trip. As tensions arise in the group, they are faced with another danger -- one whose love of the dark is as strong as its lust for blood. Opening to rave reviews in the U.K. in July of 2005, the creature-feature went on to show at the
Venice Film Festival and garnered the top prize for Euro feature at Sweden's
Fantastic Film Festival.
The Descent was picked up for future U.S. distribution by
Lion's Gate, whose work was cut out for them considering the tame opening of the similarly-themed stateside production of
The Cave in late-August of the same year.
~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide
