The Descent
| The Descent | |
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Theatrical release poster
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| Directed by | Neil Marshall |
| Produced by | Christian Colson |
| Written by | Neil Marshall |
| Starring |
Shauna Macdonald Natalie Mendoza Alex Reid Saskia Mulder MyAnna Buring Nora-Jane Noone |
| Music by | David Julyan |
| Cinematography | Sam McCurdy |
| Edited by | Jon Harris |
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Celador Films
Northmen Productions |
| Distributed by |
Pathé (Europe) Lionsgate (North America) |
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Release date
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Running time
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100 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £3.5 million |
| Box office | $57.1 million |
| Crawler | |
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Crawlers, as portrayed in The Descent (left) and The Descent 2 (right)
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| First appearance | The Descent |
| Last appearance | The Descent Part 2 |
| Created by |
Neil Marshall (director) Paul Hyett (designer) |
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| Type | Cave dwelling hominid |
The Descent is a 2005 British adventure horror film written and directed by Neil Marshall. The film follows six women who, having entered an unmapped cave system, become trapped and are hunted by flesh-eating subterranean humanoids.
Filming took place in the United Kingdom. Exterior scenes were filmed at Ashridge Park, Buckinghamshire/Hertfordshire. Because the filmmakers considered it too dangerous and time-consuming to shoot in an actual cave, interior scenes were filmed on sets built at Pinewood Studios near London. The Descent opened commercially 8 July 2005 in the United Kingdom. It premiered in the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and opened commercially on 4 August 2006 in the United States.
A sequel, titled The Descent Part 2, directed by the first film's editor Jon Harris, was released in 2009.
On her way back from whitewater rafting with her friends Juno (Natalie Mendoza) and Beth (Alex Reid), Sarah (Shauna Macdonald), along with her husband Paul (Oliver Milburn) and their daughter Jessica (Molly Kayll) get involved in a car accident when Paul is distracted. Paul and Jessica are killed, but Sarah survives.
One year later, Sarah and her friends Juno, Beth, Sam (MyAnna Buring), Rebecca (Saskia Mulder), and newcomer Holly (Nora-Jane Noone) are reunited at a cabin in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina for a caving adventure. The next day, they hike up to a cave entrance and descend. While in the cave, Juno apologises to Sarah for not being there for her after the accident, but Sarah is distant. As the group moves through a narrow passage, it collapses behind them, trapping them. After a heated discussion, Juno admits she has led the group into an unknown cave system instead of the fully explored cave system that they had originally planned, and that rescue is impossible because of this. She then tells Sarah that she led them into the unknown cave in the hopes of restoring their relationship, but Sarah rebuffs her.
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