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By Victoria Alexander (762) for Movie Reviews in Croatian (186) on 12 Aug 2006

See this movie, it's terrific with high tension all the way through. Just don't go spelunking…

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By Cynthia Fuchs (1,328) for PopMatters (2,617) on 10 Aug 2006

Because you sort of see this something too (and most importantly, because you know the horror movie drill), you tend to believe her when her…

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By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 09 Aug 2006

whatever qualities have made horror fans embrace The Descent are lost on me…

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By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 08 Aug 2006

As The Descent draws to its close, or rather shreiks to a halt, you may well admire how many thematic reads the movie has kept in play…

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By Ken Hanke (2,234) for Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (2,247) on 08 Aug 2006

Marshall may not have made the deep-dish horror flick he perhaps thought he was, but he has managed to pull off a splattery last act that's…

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By Ted Murphy (205) for Murphy's Movie Reviews (147) on 08 Aug 2006

Marshall guides his game cast through their paces and it's refreshing to see a group of women as heroines…

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By Sean Burns (1,156) for Philadelphia Weekly (778) on 07 Aug 2006

An exercise in pure craftsmanship, this is one lean, mean, blood-curdling thriller -- maybe the best of its scrappy breed since The Blair Witch…

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By Sean P. Means (2,056) for Salt Lake Tribune (1,927) on 07 Aug 2006

[A] superior brand of monster movie, and Marshall's claustrophobic caves are worth catching in a dark movie theater rather than on DVD…

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By Mark Ramsey (290) for MovieJuice! (290) on 06 Aug 2006

In America, the only reason six girlfriends would enter a cave would be to find reliable day care…

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By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 06 Aug 2006

Unsettling and claustrophobic, as the lost women squirm through the damp tunnels of the virgin cave in re-enacted birth traumas punctuated…

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By Sean O'connell (919) for Charlotte Weekly (185) on 06 Aug 2006

Symbolizes a return to horror-movie basics…

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By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 05 Aug 2006

On the surface, the film is competent ... but where The Descent triumphs are in the little details…

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By Kevin A. Ranson (644) for MovieCrypt.com (644) on 05 Aug 2006

(For fans) who prefer their scary films well rooted in the believable before adding a fantastic element or two, (this) is exactly the horror…

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By Rob Vaux (1,125) for Flipside Movie Emporium (617) on 05 Aug 2006

Few films parlay their assets so well... or reap such frightfully powerful rewards…

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By David Thomas (41) for Filmcritic.com (3,164) on 05 Aug 2006

The Descent is probably best seen at a midnight screening with a gaggle of like-minded horror junkies…

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By Marc Savlov (2,019) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 05 Aug 2006

The Descent may not be everything you've heard, but man, it's also a lot of things you haven't…

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By David Cornelius (645) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 04 Aug 2006

This is the kind of horror movie horror fans mention when they try to explain why they love horror movies…

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By Dan Fienberg (310) for Zap2it.com (379) on 04 Aug 2006

Can audiences weaned on the murky sadism of the Saw movies and the Hills Have Eyes remake even recognize what a truly scary movie looks and…

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By Mark R. Leeper (892) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 04 Aug 2006

THE DESCENT is a genuinely suspenseful adventure and horror film. The scariest monster is the cave itself…

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By Chris Hewitt (2,086) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 03 Aug 2006

Neil Marshall, who wrote and directed The Descent, is an expert at the slow build that gradually earns our trust and then rewards it by scaring…

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