70
In the great B tradition, Marshall gets a lot out of nothing.
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What are critics saying?
80
Brutal, bloody, terrifying, astonishing... And so tense it'll leave you aching. The most significant Brit chiller since "28 Days Later."
70
The chills and spills keep comin' to agreeable effect in Brit-made scarefest The Descent.
75
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
This is one of the scariest movies featuring female heroines since the "Alien" series, and what makes it uniquely scary is where these women are -- in tunnels two miles under ground -- when they realize they are not alone.
75
ReelViews by James Berardinelli
This one is a creepy white-knuckle excursion into horror, where even the "boo!" moments are so well developed that they cause a jolt.
91
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
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.
67
Austin Chronicle by Marc Savlov
The Descent may not be everything you've heard, but man, it's also a lot of things you haven't.
50
Compulsively watchable, with its fair share of effective sledgehammer shocks; it just isn't very good.
83
The Descent sustains a level of intensity that most horror films can barely muster for five minutes.
A film that understands deeply that sometimes a setting can be more disturbing and stressful (and, in this case, claustrophobic) than any monster – and which uses that horrifying setting to detonate the tensions building in between the characters.