The Descent

Director: Neil Marshall

Cast: Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid, Saskia Mulder, Nora-Jane Noone, Myanna Buring, Oliver Milburn, Molly Kayll

(Lionsgate, 2005) Rated: R

US theatrical release date: 4 August 2006 (General release)

[4 August 2006]

by Cynthia Fuchs

PopMatters Film and TV Editor

Nasty

This second feature by Neil Marshall (Dog Soldiers) knows what it's about, both its generic limits and your knowledge of those limits. It doesn't try to trick you, but instead delivers the usual tension-building effects.

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I don’t mean to come off being rude, but Juno wasn’t the one that said: The worst thing that could ever happened to you already has. It was Beth (Alex Reid) that said that.

Sorry. But true.

Comment by sheryl from Va. — March 28, 2008 @ 6:06 pm

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