The Descent: The Best British Horror of Its Decade

Fri, 23 May 2025 09:00:00 +0000

There is a stretch in the middle of The Descent — after the passage collapses, before anything with teeth appears — where the film is simply six women in a hole in the ground realising no one knows where they are. No monster. No score to speak of. Just rock, dark, and the dawning arithmetic of being trapped. That stretch is the reason Neil Marshall’s 2005 film is the best British horror of its decade, and possibly the best British creature feature ever made. It understood that the crawlers were a bonus. The cave was the horror.

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The Descent: The Best British Horror of Its Decade