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The decent: Caving is pretty scary mary.

23rd October 2007

About this film

Title	The Descent
Director	Neil Marshall
Release Date	8 July 2005
Certificate
Genres	Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Our Rating	4.0/5.0

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What does your discerning Southampton Student turn to for laughs and scares?

The Evil Dead – a horror film that rather than following in the footsteps of famous Horror series such as Nightmare on Elm Street or Halloween, went purposely for a more comical angle and created the ‘splatter’ genre of films.
Duncan Pope

The scariest horror film I have had the fortune (or misfortune!) to see has to be The Descent. With an engrossing plotline and scares aplenty, this is a film that will have you quite literally jumping out of your seat throughout. A must see over Halloween.
Katie Lee

A genuinely terrifying film has to be a thoughtful, considered nightmare; and no nightmare is more visceral a scare than Alien. Pushing your buttons on every psychological level, it takes in suffocation, spiders, insane robots and the sight of a man giving birth to cinema’s most terrifying monster. Deeply disturbing.
Philip Reynolds

Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho broke so many film making rules and in the process created many new ones for the horror genre. The superb imagery and direction accompanied by the psychological study of the characters provides a solid blueprint that every horror film of the modern day owes some debt to.
Piers Royce

28 Days Later - This horror/ sci-fi thriller provides a perfectly sound-tracked 113 minutes of zombie fuelled hysteria, with moments of frantic and terrifying frenzy set against a climate of desperate and threatening quiet. It is however, Danny Boyle’s critical examination of the human condition in times of desperation, that make this film a chilling must see movie.
Holly Hooper

Dougal and the Blue Cat might not sound terrifying or even sound like a horror film, but it scared me to death as a child. A twisted film made even scarier because you do not expect it to be; it had me flinching at the sight of the colour blue for weeks.
Emmeline Curtis

For me, nothing matches the technological creepiness and deep menace of The Ring. I know it’s a cheesy American remake but I still love it to bits, authenticity be damned. Samara should be cemented as a horror icon for our generation; she’s welcome to crawl through my TV any day.
Nicholas Brown