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[[File:the-descent-movie-poster-small.jpg|frame|If you look at the Light in the top left corner the right way, you can see a Crawler's Face.]]
'''''The Descent''''' is a 2005 British horror film written and directed by Neil Marshall, director of ''[[Dog Soldiers]]'' and ''[[Doomsday]]''. The film follows a group of six women who embark on a caving expedition and become trapped underground after a cave-in. Things go from bad to worse when they discover that the cave is home to predatory, humanoid creatures (known as "Crawlers"). As the Crawlers hunt them down, the girls embark on a struggle to survive and escape the cave - but that's not their only problem, as the friends' trust in each other slowly begins to deteriorate in the tense, claustrophobic environment. A sequel, ''[[The Descent Part 2]]'', was released in December 2009.
Has nothing to do with the video game series ''[[Descent]]''. Nor the novel ''[[The Descent (novel)|The Descent]]'' by Jeff Long, although there are certainly similarities.
* [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot]]: Happens towards the end when {{spoiler|Sarah unwinds the car window to vomit on the road.}}
* [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?]]: The [[Rock Bottom]] example above, and also Juno's comment about how the girls needn't worry about getting lost because she (Juno) has "never been lost in (her) life".
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=== The sequel provides examples of: ===
* [[Action Survivor]]: When Sarah sees Dan and Rios being stalked unawares by a Crawler, she doesn't attack the Crawler or try to shout out a warning. Rather, she {{spoiler|tackles Rios and keeps her from making a sound while the Crawler attacks and kills Dan, then stealthily grabs Greg's supplies off of his body while the Crawler drags his corpse away.}}
* [[Badass Grandpa]]: Sheriff Vaines gets a jump scare with a Crawler leaping out screaming. His reaction? Punch it in the face and knock it down.
* [[Call Back]]: {{spoiler|Rios'}} escape is nearly a shot-for-shot remake of the first movie's ending.
* [[Chained Heat]]: Vaines chains himself to Sarah partway through the movie to keep her from running away.
* [[Covers Always Lie]]: Not so much the cover, but the blurb, which promises "a new tribe of crawlers, inbred, deformed and even more viciously feral". Nope, same old Crawlers as the first movie.
* [[Cruel Twist Ending]]: See [[Shocking Swerve]].
* [[Deleted Scene]]: A handful, mainly setting up the rescue team of cavers. Oddly enough, all of the scenes are included as a single continuous chapter with no commentary.
* [[Downer Ending]]: {{spoiler|[[Kill'Em All]], much like the original.}}
* [[Hollywood Darkness]]: The sequel forgoes pitch-blackness for silhouette shots in most cases
* [[Never Found the Body]]: Exploited to <s>not</s> explain {{spoiler|Juno's}} survival after the events of the first movie.
* [[Not Quite Dead]]: Much like Beth in the first movie, {{spoiler|Greg}} proves to be not quite dead when he grabs {{spoiler|Juno}} on their way out.
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: {{spoiler|Sarah and Juno}} have learned from each other that the easiest way to survive is to make sure that the others die. By the end of the film, they've both executed self-sacrifices to allow others to live.
* [[Revised Ending]]: Based on the [[DVD Commentary|Director's Commentary]] and an [http://hubpages.com/hub/THE-DESCENT-2-coverage early script review], the ending may have originally lacked its current [[Shocking Swerve]]. If so, it was definitely a failed [[Author's Saving Throw]].
* [[Senseless Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Greg}} tackles one of the Crawlers into a chasm to give {{spoiler|Cath}} a chance to get to the other side whereupon she's killed by a Crawler on the other side. Admittedly, he was probably dying at the time due to having had the side of his neck torn out.
* [[This Is a Drill]]: Greg uses a power drill in his kit to kill one of the crawlers by drilling into its head.
* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: Once she recovers her memory, Sarah regains all of her levels in Badass. {{spoiler|Juno}} isn't far behind.
* [[Vasquez Always Dies]]: {{spoiler|Juno and Sarah.}}
* [[Wild Child]]: {{spoiler|Juno}} initially seems to have reverted to this in her survival. She gets better.
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