The Descent Critic Reviews

The director of The Descent is savvy enough to suggest even more than he shows. And he's old-school enough to load up on glimpses of good, clean, gruesome gore.Read the full review

Neil Marshall's horrifically terrific The Descent cannily recasts 1972's "Deliverance" as a female-bonding thriller with some "Hills Have Eyes"-style mutant terror tossed in for truly harrowing effect.Read the full review

The Descent sustains a level of intensity that most horror films can barely muster for five minutes.Read the full review

Prepare to be scared senseless, and then, when you think you have it figured, your certainty will be shaken by scenes built to scare you even more.Read the full review

A cult classic is born.Read the full review

Marshall takes a modest budget and a concept that isn't all that original and produces a frightening, intelligent and sexy thriller.Read the full review

This one is a creepy white-knuckle excursion into horror, where even the "boo!" moments are so well developed that they cause a jolt.Read the full review

The chills and spills keep comin' to agreeable effect in Brit-made scarefest The Descent.Read the full review

What follows is a sensationally entertaining escalation of frights, the kind that make you wiggle and squirm as you alternately laugh at your own gullibility and marvel at the filmmaker's cunning and craft.Read the full review