A caving expedition goes horribly wrong, as the explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators.A caving expedition goes horribly wrong, as the explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators.A caving expedition goes horribly wrong, as the explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators.
- Awards
- 8 wins & 22 nominations
Stephen Lamb
- Crawler
- (as Steve Lamb)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaTwenty-one separate cave sets were built for the film. These were carefully reused with different camera angles, set dressing and lighting to suggest a nearly endless collection of interconnected tunnels and caverns. For realism, the makers often limited the lighting of the sets to light sources that the protagonists brought with them, such as flashlights, helmet lights and light sticks.
- Goofs(at around 25 mins) When Juno lights the flare to reveal the interior of the cave, a crew man is visible below them.
- Crazy creditsThe creature's snarling sound can be heard at the end of the credits.
- Alternate versionsSPOILER: The endings of the US and UK versions differ. In the end, Sarah wakes up at the bottom of the cave, crawls out, and makes her way back to the car. When she is driving away, she pulls over and vomits, and when she leans back into the car, she is startled by the ghost of Juno sitting in the passenger seat. The US version cuts to the credits here. In the UK version, this apparition causes Sarah to wake up for real at the bottom of the cave, revealing her escape to be just a dream. She then has a vision of her daughter's birthday cake, which we see is just her torch. The camera backs out, the voices of the creatures can be heard again and are increasing in strength as they are closing in on her, and the movie ends. This ending was considered "too dark" for US audiences.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Descent: Deleted and Extended Scenes (2006)
Featured review
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Simple & well executed. Great use of tapping into primal fears. Really aggressive colors, lighting, & angles that set a disorienting tone. Really wild plot but the character development muddles the pacing & overall suspense.
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. Simple & well executed. Great use of tapping into primal fears. Really aggressive colors, lighting, & angles that set a disorienting tone. Really wild plot but the character development muddles the pacing & overall suspense.
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. Simple & well executed. Great use of tapping into primal fears. Really aggressive colors, lighting, & angles that set a disorienting tone. Really wild plot but the character development muddles the pacing & overall suspense.
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. Simple & well executed. Great use of tapping into primal fears. Really aggressive colors, lighting, & angles that set a disorienting tone. Really wild plot but the character development muddles the pacing & overall suspense.
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. Simple & well executed. Great use of tapping into primal fears. Really aggressive colors, lighting, & angles that set a disorienting tone. Really wild plot but the character development muddles the pacing & overall suspense.
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Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official site
- Languages
- Also known as
- El descenso
- Filming locations
- Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK(on location)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- £3,500,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $26,024,456
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $8,911,330
- Aug 6, 2006
- Gross worldwide
- $57,130,027
- Runtime1 hour 39 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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