Did you know Edit. Trivia The filmmakers considered it too dangerous to film in an actual cave. It also would have been far too time-consuming, so they opted to build one instead. Goofs at around 25 mins When Juno lights the flare to reveal the interior of the cave, a crew man is visible below them. Crazy credits The creature's snarling sound can be heard at the end of the credits. In the end, Sarah wakes up at the bottom of the cave, crawls out, and makes her way back to the car.
When she is driving away, she pulls over and vomits, and when she leans back into the car, she is startled by the ghost of Juno sitting in the passenger seat.
The US version cuts to the credits here. In the UK version, this apparition causes Sarah to wake up for real at the bottom of the cave, revealing her escape to be just a dream.
She then has a vision of her daughter's birthday cake, which we see is just her torch. The camera backs out, the voices of the creatures can be heard again and are increasing in strength as they are closing in on her, and the movie ends. This ending was considered "too dark" for US audiences. User reviews 1. Top review. Brilliantly tense from start to finish. With Dog Soldiers, Neil Marshall created a tight and claustrophobic atmosphere then added the scares to create a very good horror film.
However, the tension was often released with humour and the audience were allowed to catch their breath and relax. At no point in The Descent are you allowed to relax as Marshall grabs your attention within the first few minutes and doesn't let go until the credits roll at the end. FAQ What is 'The Descent' about? Is "The Descent" based on a book? What do the creatures look like? Details Edit. Release date August 4, United States. United Kingdom. Official site Germany.
El descenso. He explained the difference, "The women discuss how they feel about the situation, which the soldiers in Dog Soldiers would never have done. Craig Conway portrayed one of the film's crawlers, Scar. Exterior scenes were filmed in Scotland, and interior scenes were filmed in sets built at Pinewood Studios near London.
The cave was built at Pinewood because filmmakers considered it too dangerous and time-consuming to shoot in an actual cave.
Set pieces were reused with care, and filmmakers sought to limit lighting to the sources that the characters bring with them into the cave, such as the helmet lights.
The director elaborated, "We really wanted to ramp up the tension slowly, unlike all the American horror films you see now. They take it up to 11 in the first few minutes and then simply can't keep it up. We wanted to show all these terrible things in the cave: dark, drowning, claustrophobia. Then, when it couldn't get any worse, make it worse.
Simon Bowles designed the maze of caves for The Descent. The Descent was originally scheduled to be released in the United Kingdom by November or February , but The Cave began filming six months before its competitor. The Filmmakers of The Descent decided to release the film before The Cave , so they fast-tracked production to be completed by the end of February The Descent was released in North America with approximately a minute cut from the end.
In the American cut, Sarah escapes from the cave and sees Juno, but the film does not cut back to the cave. In the 4 August issue of Entertainment Weekly, it was stated that the ending was trimmed because American viewers did not like its "uber-hopeless finale".
Lionsgate marketing chief Tim Palen said, "It's a visceral ride, and by the time you get to the ending you're drained. Recently, the film has been airing on Canada's The Movie Network, which has the original ending.
In contrast, the American Syfy Channel as recently as August 27, broadcast the recut version of Sarah escaping, with Juno's spectre appearing beside her in the SUV.
As exhibited on Syfy Latin America , The Descent retains the original ending, with Sarah awakening back in the cave facing her dead daughter surrounded by the crawlers. The Descent Wiki Explore. Wiki Content.
Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? The Descent. Edit source History Talk 0. As exhibited on Syfy Latin America , The Descent retains the original ending, with Sarah awakening back in the cave facing her dead daughter surrounded by the crawlers. In the film, the women encounter underground creatures referred to as crawlers by the production crew.
Marshall described the crawlers as cavemen who have stayed underground. The director explained, "They've evolved in this environment over thousands of years. They've adapted perfectly to thrive in the cave.
They've lost their eyesight, they have acute hearing and smell and function perfectly in the pitch black. They're expert climbers, so they can go up any rock face and that is their world. Director Neil Marshall first chose to have a dark cave as the setting for his horror film The Descent then decided to add the element of the crawlers, describing them as "something that could get the women, something human, but not quite". The crawlers were depicted as cavemen who never left the caves and evolved in the dark.
The director included mothers and children in the colony of creatures, defining his vision, "It is a colony and I thought that was far more believable than making them the classic monsters. If they had been all male, it would have made no sense, so I wanted to create a more realistic context for them.
I wanted to have this very feral, very primal species living underground, but I wanted to make them human. I didn't want to make them aliens because humans are the scariest things. The crawlers were designed by Paul Hyett, a makeup and prosthetics creator.
Production designer Simon Bowles said that the crawler design had started out as "wide-eyed and more creature-like", but the design shifted toward a more human appearance. Crawlers originally had pure white skin, but the look was adjusted to seem grubbier. The skin was originally phosphorescent in appearance, but the effect was too bright and reflective in the darkened set, so the adjustment was made for them to blend in shadows. The director barred the film's all-female cast from seeing the actors in full crawler make-up until their first appearance on screen.
Actress Natalie Mendoza said of the effect, "When the moment came, I nearly wet my pants! I was running around afterwards, laughing in this hysterical way and trying to hide the fact that I was pretty freaked out. Even after that scene, we never really felt comfortable with them. The crawlers reappear in The Descent Part 2 , a sequel by Jon Harris with the first film's director Neil Marshall as executive producer.
For the sequel, Hyett improved the camouflaging ability of the crawlers' skin tones to deliver better scares. According to Hyett, "Jon wanted them more viciously feral, inbred, scarred and deformed, with rows of sharklike teeth for ripping flesh.
The film received limited releases in other European countries. The London bombings in the same month was reported to have affected the box office performance of The Descent.
The film has received critical acclaim. In this low-budget import from Scotland, director Neil Marshall has masterfully created a spelunking nightmare, which doubles as a compelling meditation on morality, vengeance, and the depths to which we might go for survival. Roger Ebert for the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film four out of four stars. He wrote, "This is the fresh, exciting summer movie I've been wanting for months.
Or for years, it seems. Manohla Dargis of The New York Times described The Descent as "one of the better horror entertainments of the last few years", calling it "indisputably and pleasurably nerve-jangling".
Dargis applauded the claustrophobic atmosphere of the film, though she perceived sexual overtones in the all-female cast with their laboured breathing and sweaty clothing. Rene Rodriguez of The Miami Herald thought that the film devolved into a guessing game of who would survive, though he praised Marshall's "nightmare imagery" for generating scares that work better than other horror films.
Rodriguez also noted the attempt to add dimension to the female characters but felt that the actresses were unable to perform. Horror Film Wiki Explore. Gore and disturbing films Psychological films Killer films Monster films Paranormal films.
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