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The Descent

Year:

2006

Duration:

99 min | 100 min (original unrated cut)

Genres:

Adventure | Horror

IMDB rate:

7.3

Director:

Neil Marshall

Awards:

8 wins & 14 nominations

Details

Country: UK

Release Date: 2006-08-04

Filming Locations: Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Earnings

Opening Weekend: $8,411 (USA) (12 August 2007)

Gross: $26,027,680 (USA) (20 August 2007)

Cast

Actor

Character

MyAnna Buring

The Descent

Shauna Macdonald

Sarah

Natalie Mendoza

Juno

Alex Reid

Beth

Saskia Mulder

Rebecca

Nora-Jane Noone

Holly

Oliver Milburn

Paul

Molly Kayll

Jessica

Craig Conway

Crawler - Scar

Leslie Simpson

Crawler

Mark Cronfield

Crawler

Stephen Lamb

Crawler

Catherine Dyson

Crawler

Julie Ellis

Crawler

Sophie Trott

Crawler

Tristan Matthiae

Crawler

Stuart Luis

Crawler

Justin Hackney

Crawler

Did you know?

Trivia

At Neil Marshall's insistence, all the people playing the villainous "crawlers" were professional actors rather than stunt men or dancers. He wanted them to cultivate a distinct character for their crawler, although, in the finished film, many crawlers only appear for a few seconds.

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The appearance of the creatures was kept secret from the cast members until the first scene in which they encounter them was filmed. When the cast were finally filming the scene where the girls encounter the crawlers, the girls were genuinely scared and screamed the building down, running off set and laughing.

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According to the audio commentary on the special edition DVD, there was a exact replica made of Nora-Jane Noone and after the movie was finished, she got to keep the head of the doll and put it in her mother's freezer as a joke.

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Goofs

Sarah hears the sound of an eagle while she is lying in bed. She goes to the window and it is still nighttime and dark outside. Eagles don't fly at night.

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When Holly drops and breaks her leg, about 45 minutes into the movie, the slip-wire is visible, reflecting in the light from the flashlights.

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Cars in North Carolina are not required to have front license plates. Also, the license tag is made up of four digits followed by three letters; on North Carolina plates, letters precede numbers.

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Quotes

Rebecca: [while Sarah is looking throught the camera, with night vision on] oh, fuck it! Hello!

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Rebecca: The noise she's making, she'll bring every one of those things down on her head.

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Juno: You okay?

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Faq

Why does the birthday cake have five candles in the first shot and six in the next?

Some viewers have speculated that this is a reference to the lives of all six girls being snuffed out. Another theory is that it was a "happy accident." Her daughter was five when she died in the car accident and since the majority of the film takes place a year later, it could be assumed her daughter would have been six years old and Sarah is celebrating that 6th birthday with her daughter (even though it was a vision and not reality). However, on the DVD commentary, Neil Marshall and his editor acknowledge that this was simply a continuity error.

A Note Regarding Spoilers

The following FAQ entries may contain spoilers. Only the biggest ones (if any) will be covered with spoiler tags. Spoiler tags have been used sparingly in order to make the page more readable.

What is this about an original British ending?

The movie had a longer, very different ending on its original release in the UK (unrated version), which was trimmed for the US release (R-rated version). A detailed comparison between the R-Rated version and the Unrated version can be found here.

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