The Descent (2005)

The Descent rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.2/10· 270K votes

Rotten Tomatoes87%

Metacritic71%

TMDb6.98/10· 4K votes

With 87% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.2/10 on IMDb and 71/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About The Descent

After a personal tragedy, Sarah joins her friends on a caving expedition in the Appalachian Mountains. But when a rockfall traps them deep underground, their adventure turns into a nightmare. As they search for a way out, the group discovers they are not alone—lurking in the darkness are savage, cave-dwelling creatures. With rising tension and dwindling trust, the women must fight to survive against both the predators and each other.

Cast of The Descent

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  Shauna Macdonald

  as Sarah

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  Natalie Mendoza

  as Juno

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  Alex Reid

  as Beth

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  Saskia Mulder

  as Rebecca

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  MyAnna Buring

  as Sam

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  Nora-Jane Noone

  as Holly

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  Oliver Milburn

  as Paul

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  Molly Kayll

  as Jessica

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  Craig Conway

  as Crawler - Scar

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  Tristan Matthiae

  as Crawler

• L

  Leslie Simpson

  as Crawler

• M

  Mark Cronfield

  as Crawler

The Descent facts

Budget

$3.5M

Box office

$57.1M

Collection

The Descent Collection

Our take on The Descent

Neil Marshall's 2005 horror sends a group of women on a caving expedition in the Appalachian Mountains, a year after one of them, Sarah, suffers a devastating personal loss. When a rockfall seals the passage behind them, the trip curdles into a fight for survival deep underground, and the darkness turns out to hide savage, blind creatures that hunt by sound. As claustrophobia sets in and old resentments surface, the women must battle both the predators and their own fraying trust. Marshall wrings dread from tight spaces, total blackness and rising panic. Strong stuff for horror fans who want a lean, brutal, genuinely tense survival nightmare.