The Crawlers

The Crawlers from Neil Marshall's film "The Descent."

I recently had the opportunity to watch the UK DVD of Neil's follow up to 2002's "Dog Soldiers." And initially I enjoyed the hell out of it.

I loved the atmosphere, and the pacing, and at first glance the savage Gollumesque Crawlers did an adequate job of providing the proverbial "rock" against the cave's hard place...

But, unfortunately after thinking about it the next day, and through discussions with friends it does really start to fall apart. And sadly fails to live up to the brilliance of "Dog Soldiers." But if you can turn a blind eye to the film's many faults and just let yourself enjoy it's eerie claustrophobic popcorn creepiness I recommend heading out to the theatre when it gets it's US release this August. Sadly the US version has had the original ending chopped off in favor of a cheap "jump" scare, but all in all, this is still one of the best horror films in recent memory.