There's a reason these caves aren't named

The Descent

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Its not often that I see a horror movie that I would consider not only entertaining, but a great piece of moviemaking that borders on art. This movie starts out with a bang, literally, and just keeps on going in sucha direction that you can't help but feel yourself getting more and more attached to the characters.

After the horrific death of her husband and child, Sarah and her friends decide to go cave diving on the one year anniversairy of the accident to help her with her grieving. One of the girls in the group has found an uncharted cave but doesn't tell the girls that her plan is to take them through the uncharted territory with the hopes of naming the system after Sarah. Once inside the cave, they soon become trapped, and then realize that they aren't alone underground.

Of course.

The plot sound familiar. I reviewed a movie called The Cave a while back that had a similar plot, but was not even close to being as good as this one. And then there's Uwe Boll's Alone in the Dark, which I haven't seen, but have heard absolutely nothing good about. I think what makes this movie so good is the human element at the beginning with Sarah's family dying. This is the first ten minutes of the movie and the acting here is great and it really puts you in touch with her character and makes you care for her right off the bat. Especially since we know that something bad is going to happen to her.

This movie is crammed full of gore and violence once it starts happening. Its almost like two movies in one. The beginning is a women's empowerment+overcoming the odds story. The second half is a horror/gore-fest+women's empowerment movie.

I loved everything about this movie. It was the first movie that had made me jump so much in about 10 years. It had me out of my seat more than once. I highly recommend this one for anyone who likes horror or just a great movie in general. It is easily something I could watch more than once and it it making me want to seek out director Neil Marshall's other movie, Dog Soldiers.

If I take nothing else away from this movie, though, its this: I know, with utmost certainty, that this reviewer will not, under any circumstances, be doing any cave diving any time in the near future.

See this movie!!