The Descent

by James Marriott

The story of an all-female caving expedition gone horribly wrong, The Descent (2005) is arguably the best of the mid-2000s horror entries to return verve and intensity to the genre. Unlike its peers (Saw 2004], Hostel 2011], etc.), The Descent was both commercially and critically popular, providing a genuine version of what other films could only produce as pastiche. For Mark Kermode, writing in the Observer, it was "one of the best British horror...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1906733716
• ISBN13: 9781906733711
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 119 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 7.5"