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It's the most intense, unpredictable and thrilling cinematic experience I've had the pleasure to squirm through in ages.
91
The director of The Descent is savvy enough to suggest even more than he shows. And he's old-school enough to load up on glimpses of good, clean, gruesome gore.
91
A nasty little tube of frozen horror concentrate.
90
Neil Marshall's horrifically terrific The Descent cannily recasts 1972's "Deliverance" as a female-bonding thriller with some "Hills Have Eyes"-style mutant terror tossed in for truly harrowing effect.
88
Though the film's downbeat ending was softened for U.S. release, it's still a long way from happy.
83
The Descent sustains a level of intensity that most horror films can barely muster for five minutes.
83
The most exhilaratingly horrifying movie to come out in years.
80
Brutal, bloody, terrifying, astonishing... And so tense it'll leave you aching. The most significant Brit chiller since "28 Days Later."
75
This one is a creepy white-knuckle excursion into horror, where even the "boo!" moments are so well developed that they cause a jolt.
75
This is one of the scariest movies featuring female heroines since the "Alien" series, and what makes it uniquely scary is where these women are -- in tunnels two miles under ground -- when they realize they are not alone.
