Number 25 of My Top 31 Horror Movies : A caving trip goes horribly wrong, as the explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators : The way Neil Marshall sets up this horror movie in the first 20mins is excellent, it not only contains a pretty shocking start to proceedings but also allows the story and it’s characters to quickly develop so you feel their love but also a certain amount of tension between the friends as they set off on the caving expedition in the Appalachian Mountains : 2005’s THE DESCENT is a horror film that shook me to the bone, it’s a claustrophobic, knuckle clenching, nerve ending survival film that’s tense, bloody and contains a cruel turn during it’s final quarter : the all female cast are excellent especially the superb Natalie Mendoza who plays Juno the badass athlete of the group and Shauna Macdonald who’s lead character Sarah is clever, gutsy & will do anything to survive : I really loved the way the cave system was cleverly lit by the neon cave lights the girls carried, this added a terrific atmosphere to these scenes which in turn also allowed the pale skin of the crawlers to look even more menacing (by the way according to Neil Marshall all the Crawlers in the movie were played by actors and not stunt people or dancers) : one of my favorite moments in The Descent was Juno’s fight with one of the crawlers, the caos & confusion was interupted by the now infamous pickaxe scene involving Beth, and did I say the film contains blood and lot’s of it : so if your looking for some Horror inspiration and haven’t yet watched The Descent then I’d highly recommend you do so, it’s a terrific blood bath of a monster movie that will make you scream out loud in genuine fear : I LOVED IT ★★★★½