Holly is killed when a crawler attacks and bites through her throat. "[33], The Descent was released on DVD and Blu-ray on 26 December 2006.[34][35]. Sarah then strikes Juno in the leg with a pickaxe and leaves her to die as a swarm of crawlers approaches. In the series, it is implied they hunt above ground, shown by the dead Deer, Elk, Hog, Goat and other carcasses in Part 1, and Crawlers dragging dead animals into the caves at the ⦠Described by Director Neil Marshall as âCavemen that never left the cavesâ, the crawlers present a terrifying example of unknown species living in our backyard. "[4] Marshall also said at the 63rd Venice International Film Festival that he was inspired by Italian horror films of the past, in particular, those by Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci. "Crawlers" are a human subspecies that adapted perfectly to their cave environment. [31], Lawrence Toppman of The Charlotte Observer thought a weakness of The Descent was the failure of the writer to explain the evolution of the creature, though he said, "Their clicking and howling, used for echolocation and communication, makes them more alien; this otherness gives humans permission to mutilate them without seeming too disgusting to be sympathetic. Exterior scenes were filmed at Ashridge Park, Hertfordshire, and in Scotland. Add to Watchlist. Stop hating the Crawlers. "[9], The crawlers were designed by Paul Hyett, a makeup and prosthetics creator. The film had twenty-one cave sets, built by Rod Vass and his company Armordillo Ltd. using a unique system of polyurethane sprayed rock that was developed for this production. The Descent was released in North America with approximately one minute cut from the end. It was fascinating to learn that Marshall basically allowed the story to create the Crawlers for him, then tweaked their design from there. Juno, trying to prevent Holly's body from being dragged away, kills a crawler with her pickaxe but then, startled and in shock, accidentally strikes Beth through the neck. It is for entertainment purposes only. UK Ending: Following the events of the US ending, Sarah awakens in the cave after hallucinating her escape. When she sits up, she sees a hallucination of a bloodied Juno sitting next to her and screams. She smiles at this. The filmmakers of The Descent decided to release their film before The Cave, so they fast-tracked production to be completed by the end of February 2005.[4]. Lionsgate. The Descent premiered at the Edinburgh horror film festival Dead by Dawn on 6 July 2005. Becca mentions hallucinations in caves and we know (at least in the UK ending) that Sarah hallucinates escaping, only to wake up in the cave. Production of The Descent competed with a big-budget American film that had a similar premise, The Cave. We see the Crawlers scream later when threatened or angry, so itâs entirely possible the Crawlers interpreted the screaming as a threat and attacked in self-defense. Break the Cutie: Starting with the death of her husband and child, and then the death of Beth. [13] Douglas Tseng of The Straits Times also noted that the crawlers looked similar to Gollum, being a cross between the creature and the vampiric Reapers from Blade II. 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. The film received positive reviews and was a box-office success, grossing $57.1 million against a £3.5 million budget. The Descent opened in cinemas in the United Kingdom on 8 July 2005. Actress Natalie Mendoza said of the effect, "When the moment came, I nearly wet my pants! Total worldwide box office receipts are $57,051,053. One year later, Sarah, Juno, and Beth, as well as friends Sam, Rebecca, and newcomer Holly reunite at a cabin in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina for a spelunking adventure. Action Survivor: She's forced to become this to survive both the cave and the Crawlers. [4], The cast included Shauna Macdonald as Sarah, Natalie Mendoza as Juno, Alex Reid as Beth, Saskia Mulder as Rebecca, MyAnna Buring as Sam, Nora-Jane Noone as Holly, Oliver Milburn as Paul, and Molly Kayll as Jessica. The cave was built at Pinewood because filmmakers considered it too dangerous and time-consuming to shoot in an actual cave. The Crawlers are the main antagonists in "The Descent" & The Descent Part 2 1 Biography 2 Victims 2.1 The Descent 2.2 The Descent Part 2 Crawlers are vicious humanoids who have existed for many years underground in a remote cave system which was undiscovered by the modern world, this allowed the Crawlers to breed and evolve in isolation from humanity, ⦠Characters /. Film Theory: The Crawlers Weren't The REAL Killers In The Descent. They've lost their eyesight, they have acute hearing and smell and function perfectly in the pitch black. Ultimately, The Descent is the purest kind of horror film – ruthless, unforgiving, showing no mercy. The Descent features underground creatures, known as crawlers, which could certainly make the creepy movie monster hall of fame, but one theory suggests the movieâs real killer lies in its protagonist, Sarah (Shauna Macdonald) instead. The director explained, "They've evolved in this environment over thousands of years. The Descent was originally scheduled to be released in the United Kingdom by November 2005 or February 2006, but The Cave began filming six months before its competitor. Marshall cited the films The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Thing, and Deliverance as influences in establishing tension in The Descent. [7], 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". Sarah Carter is the main protagonist of the series and one of the six women who descended into the Appalachian Cave System and were pitted against cannibalistic monsters known as the Crawlers. It has a clear set-up, conflict and resolution. The British release has one final scene that was snipped for American audiences, though I really don't know why. (2005) R | 99 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller. Sam has deduced that the crawlers are blind and rely on sound to hunt. [2], Roger Ebert's editor, Jim Emerson, reviewed the film for Ebert's column whilst Ebert was on leave due to surgery, giving it four out of four stars. What makes it different however is the fact that for the first half of the film the main 'villains' or antagonists (the vicious and carnivorous crawlers) do not appear and are only very subtly hinted at. [24] On its debut weekend in the US, The Descent opened with a three-day gross of $8.8 million, and finished with $26,005,908. The crawlers, designed by Paul Hyett (Attack the Block, Doomsday), are albino cave-dwelling, devolved humanoids who hunt down the films female antagonists one-by-one. Defying convention, Marshall cast all women, and to avoid making them clichéd, he solicited basic advice from his female friends. Then, when it couldn't get any worse, make it worse. FanTheory. The film follows a group of six women who embark on a caving expedition and become trapped underground after a cave-in. In the American cut, Sarah escapes from the cave and sees Juno, but the film does not cut back to the cave. "The Descent" is the story of an all-female caving team that becomes trapped in deep caves and finds itself at the mercy of subterranean nosferatu-lookalike creatures. A charnel house was designed for the crawlers as well as a set that the crew called the "Crawler Crapper". While in the cave, Juno apologizes to Sarah for not being there for her after the accident, but Sarah is distant. The 4 August 2006 issue of Entertainment Weekly reported that the ending was trimmed because American viewers did not like its "uber-hopeless finale". The camera slowly backs out as the crawlers are heard closing in on Sarah, revealing that she is still trapped in the cave. Juno is last heard screaming as Sarah escapes. Thrill seeker friends Sarah, Juno, and Beth whitewater raft together. The Descent is a 2005 British adventure horror film written and directed by Neil Marshall. [22] The London bombings in the same month was reported to have affected the box office performance of The Descent. As the others help Holly, Sarah wanders off and observes a pale, humanoid creature drinking at a pool before it scampers away. If they had been all male, it would have made no sense, so I wanted to create a more realistic context for them. [Director Neil] Marshall had a number of endings in mind when he shot the film, so he was open [to making a switch]." The director explained, "They've evolved in this environment over thousands of years. As any good horror movie would do, this is hinted at in the dialogue. I believe that Sarah did leave the hospital room and, a year later, she was reunited with her friends. The director was initially wary of being typecast as a horror film director, although he eventually agreed to make The Descent, emphasizing, "They are very different films. US Ending: When Sarah awakens, she sees sunlight and clambers up a slope covered in bones to escape the cave. Watch Free on IMDb TV. Beth begs Sarah to euthanize her, which Sarah reluctantly does by bashing her head in with a rock. Like some species of microbats, they are blind, but use sound to hunt. The Seven Dwarfs, now without Snow White in their lives, resume their day to day task of toiling away in their mines for gems. In the film, the women encounter underground creatures referred to as crawlers by the production crew. They've adapted perfectly to thrive in the cave. Filmmakers kept the crawler design hidden from the actresses until they were revealed in the scenes in which the characters encountered the creatures, to allow for natural tension. In an interview with IndieWire, Marshall ⦠A caving expedition goes horribly wrong, as the explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators. [23] By comparison, Metacritic calculated an average score of 71 out of 100 from 30 reviews. Simon Bowles designed the maze of caves for The Descent. They're expert climbers, so they can go up any rock face an⦠Marshall described Ax-Crazy: Still suffering from the trauma of the car crash that took her family, Sarah becomes even more unhinged once the Crawlers attack. Based on 177 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, it received an 85% "Certified Fresh" overall approval rating with an average rating of 7.35/10. She then tells Sarah that this adventure was in the hopes of restoring their relationship. That seemed to chime with the prevailing mood of defiance that set in the weekend after the bombs. Beth collapses with Juno's pendant in her hand and begs Juno not to leave her, but a traumatized Juno flees. The website's critical consensus states, "Deft direction and strong performances from its all-female cast guide The Descent, a riveting, claustrophobic horror film". Because the filmmakers considered it too dangerous and time-consuming to shoot in an actual cave, interior scenes were filmed on sets built at Pinewood Studios near London designed by Simon Bowles. [21] The film opened commercially to the public in the UK on 10 July 2005, showing on 329 screens and earned £2.6 million. After a truck passes her, she vomits out the window. The distributor's marketing chief, Anna Butler, said of the new approach, "We changed tack to concentrate on the women involved all standing together and fighting back. Later, the group comes across a den of animal bones and is suddenly attacked by a creature known as a "crawler." 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. [citation needed] They are nocturnal hunters which surface from their caves to hunt for prey and bring the spoils of their hunts to their caverns. Beth gives her Juno's pendant, which Sarah recognizes as a gift from Paul, and realizes that Juno and Paul had an affair before his death. Pathé also distributed the new versions to TV and radio stations. Male and females have been shown as well, with females having a large amount of head hair, whilst males have none at all. The Descent released to great praise from critics and audiences, and still holds as a strong recommend for many horror fans over 15 years later. This can be used to the Human's advantage, as the crawlers can be distracted by noise-emitting objects, such as a bleeping watch or a "walkie-talkie" radio, allowing that person to escape. Things go from bad to worse when they discover that the cave is home to predatory, pale humanoid creatures (known as "Crawlers⦠This can be used to the Human's advantage, as the crawlers can be distracted by noise-emitting objects, such as a bleeping watch or a "walkie-talkie" radio, allowing that person to escape. The film follows six women who, having entered a cave system, struggle to survive against the humanoid creatures inside. No, The Descent deserves better than that. He explained the difference, "The women discuss how they feel about the situation, which the soldiers in Dog Soldiers would never have done." Added to Watchlist. They're expert climbers, so they can go up any rock face and that is their world." Juno tells them about the markings, but she will not leave without Sarah. The Descent. Reviews credited Bowles: e.g., "Bowles' beautifully designed cave sets conjure a world of subterranean darkness. "[15] The crawlers are sexually dimorphic, with males being completely bald, whilst females sport thick dark hair on their heads. Lionsgate marketing chief Tim Palen said, "It's a visceral ride, and by the time you get to the ending you're drained. The film's marketing campaign in the United Kingdom was disrupted by the London bombings in July 2005. Juno encounters Sarah and lies to her about seeing Beth die. While the events documented in The Descent are tragic, the Crawlers are not evil bloodthirsty monsters and deserve full protection under the Endangered Species Act. I saw The Descent in theaters back in 2006, and I remember liking it quite a bit. "Metacritic 2008 Film Critic Top Ten Lists 2006", "00's Retrospect: Bloody Disgusting's Top 20 Films of the Decade...Part 4", Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Descent&oldid=1024097917, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from May 2021, Articles with unsourced statements from May 2020, Pages incorrectly using the quote template, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat-VIAF identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, 1st – Bravo's 13 Even Scarier Movie Moments, This page was last edited on 20 May 2021, at 02:53. They reach a chasm and Sam tries to climb across, but a crawler scaling the ceiling attacks and rips her throat out. Elsewhere, Juno, Sam and Rebecca are pursued by a large group of crawlers. I think it adds another note of ambiguity and mystery that... Oh. The Descent's scares come by means of creatures referred to as Crawlers. [20], The film has received positive reviews from critics. [citation needed], Filmmakers originally planned for the cast to be both male and female, but Neil Marshall's business partner realized that horror films rarely have all-female casts. Rebecca is then dragged away and eaten alive as Juno escapes. [26] 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. I wanted to have this very feral, very primal species living underground, but I wanted to make them human. The crawlers are a reflection of her own self image, ⦠According to Hyett, "Jon wanted them more viciously feral, inbred, scarred and deformed, with rows of sharklike teeth for ripping flesh." Marshall described the crawlers as cavemen who have stayed underground. Due to these events there was some initial concern that the film's release might have been delayed out of sensitivity for the tragedy but Pathé ultimately chose to release the film on schedule, with a slightly retooled advertising campaign; however, the US promotional campaign managed by Lionsgate Films was significantly different from the original European version. [16], The skull of women motif used in some advertising material is based on Philippe Halsman's In Voluptas Mors photograph.[17]. The Descent. In the film, the women encounter underground creatures referred to as crawlers by the production crew. We wanted to show all these terrible things in the cave: dark, drowning, claustrophobia. Then, during a caving expedition, they were trapped, she slowly went insane, and savagely murdered everyone in the group. 7.2/10. The film received limited releases in other European countries. -Sarah killed 5 crawlers and there are 5 other women in the caves. The scariest film of the early aughts is The Descent â more pop-outs than an outie bellybutton convention, just-been-winded feelings of breathless, lung-aching claustrophobia, and just try and look at a cave, tunnel or dark hole in the same way again post-watch. The next day, they hike up to a mountain cave entrance and descend. In the series, it is implied they hunt above ground, shown by the dead Deer, Elk, Hog, Goat and other carcasses in Part 1, and Crawlers dragging dead animals into the caves at the end of part 2. After defeating a group of crawlers close to the exit, Sarah confronts Juno, revealing the pendant and her knowledge of Beth's fate and the affair with Paul. [10], Rene Rodriguez of The Miami Herald described the crawlers as "blind, snarling cave-dwellers, looking much like Gollum's bigger kin". [8] The crawlers were depicted as cavemen who never left the caves and evolved in the dark. I do not own any of this material. As you may know, "The Descent" (which opened in US theaters this weekend) was released last year in Great Britain, where it is now available on Region 2 PAL DVD. Sam stabs it before bleeding to death in front of Juno and Rebecca. Shot in a mere 7 weeks The Descent sees a sextet of undeniably attractive action women leaping headfirst into an Appalachian potholing adventure that goes wrong so quickly you are left wondering if any one of them will survive, let alone ever see daylight again. Sarah runs and falls down a hole, where she is knocked unconscious. The cake's fire is shown to actually be her torch. [10] 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. -The titular "descent" could also be Sarah's descent into madness. After exhaustedly running to her car, she speeds out of the woods before she pulls over to the side of the road, breaking down in tears. Holly, thinking she sees sunlight, runs ahead, but falls down a hole and breaks her leg. A sequel to The Descent was filmed at Ealing Studios in London during 2008 and was released on 2 December 2009 in the UK. The Descent. Marshall described the crawlers as cavemenwho have stayed underground. The Descent Wiki is a FANDOM Games Community. Sarah falls down a hole and is knocked unconscious. Neil Marshall's cave-dwelling horror has been slated into list after list after list of the most spine ⦠Juno locates Sam and Rebecca. Meanwhile, Sarah encounters Beth, who tells her that Juno wounded then abandoned her. I liked it because it did exactly what a horror movie is supposed to do. They are stealth and ruthless hunters who torment a group of women for the majority of the film. A sequel, titled The Descent Part 2, directed by the first film's editor Jon Harris, was released in 2009. One day while working in the mine, an accident causes a new tunnel to open, and the entrance to collapse. Even after that scene, we never really felt comfortable with them. He also gave the characters different accents to enable the audience to tell them apart and to establish a more "cosmopolitan feel" than the British marketing of Dog Soldiers. "The Descent" is a 2005 horror-thriller about an adventuresome and daring group of girlfriends who get more than they bargained for after spelunking into a cave system. Review: âThe Descent, part 2â *WARNING: SPOILERS*. 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. However, considering Ed dragged Rios to the cave entrance in Part 2, it is quite plausible that he hunts for them and leaves the prey at the cave entrance. After a heated discussion, Juno admits that she has led the group into an unknown cave system instead of the fully explored cave system that they had originally planned to visit, and so rescue is therefore impossible. It premiered in the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and released on 4 August 2006 in the United States. In the film, the women encounter underground creatures referred to as crawlers by the production crew. 201,559. I was running around afterwards, laughing in this hysterical way and trying to hide the fact that I was pretty freaked out. When Neil Marshall's film Dog Soldiers (2002) was a moderate success, the director received numerous requests to direct other horror films. Sarah then encounters several crawlers and manages to kill them all, falling into a blood-filled pond in the process and emerging covered in blood. I dare you. The Descent is the story of six female spelunkers out for adventure when everything goes terribly wrong. The film's theatrical distributor in the UK, Pathé, recalled the posters from their placement in the London Underground and reworked the campaign to exclude the word "terror" from advertised reviews of The Descent. For the sequel, Hyett improved the camouflaging ability of the crawlers' skin tones to deliver better scares. In Neil Marshallâs âDog Soldiersâ a bunch of blokes went into the forest and scary shit happened. Descent Ascending. In this ferocious, blood-drenched follow-up, a bunch of women He wrote, "This is the fresh, exciting summer movie I've been wanting for months. [11] The director barred the film's cast from seeing the actors in full crawler make-up until their first appearance on screen. The Descent Part 2 is a 2009 British adventure horror film and sequel to the 2005 horror film The Descent.It was directed by Jon Harris from a screenplay by James McCarthy, J Blakeson, and James Watkins.The film was produced by Christian Colson and Ivana MacKinnon; Neil Marshall, the writer and director of the original, was an executive producer. They've adapted perfectly to thrive in the cave. -Sarah is the first to see the crawlers. Or for years, it seems. Crawlers originally had pure white skin, but the look was adjusted to seem grubbier. As the group presses forward with hopes of finding an exit, they discover aged climbing equipment and a cave painting that suggests an exit exists. For the sequel, Hyett improved the camouflaging ability of the crawlers' skin tones to deliver better scares. Following a group of all female cavers into a crazy underground world, where they encounter The Crawlers ⦠Craig Conway portrayed one of the film's crawlers, Scar. After the group moves through a narrow passage, it collapses behind them, trapping them.
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