Following his fun horror comedy Dog Soldiers, filmmaker Neil Marshall turned up the terror to 11 for his second feature, The Descent. Starring Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza and Alex Reid. The film makes its UK UHD debut on June 29th, with a brand new 4K restoration, in a 3-disc SteelBook, featuring commentaries, the alternate ending, a host of featurettes and a poster. 

During a caving expedition in the Appalachian Mountains, six women are trapped by a rockfall. Searching the labyrinthian tunnels for a way out, they find themselves hunted by a race of fearless, ravenous predators as their adventure quickly descends into primal chaos and madness.

This bona fide British horror classic, written and directed by Neil Marshall, is a nerve-shredding thrill ride featuring a group of all-female cavers encountering some very nasty beasties indeed. I still remember the sound I made in the cinema when we got our first glimpse of the Crawlers. Shauna Macdonald (Shetland) is outstanding as a woman who goes on a caving trip to try and confront a debilitating trauma and finds herself tested beyond endurance.

The Descent features a superb cast, brilliantly creepy sets, nasty cave dwelling ‘crawlers’ to haunt your dreams, and features some of the most intense and unbearable set pieces put on film, not to mention the jump scare to end all jump scares. It’s a genuine white-knuckle horror experience, right up to the last blood-drenched frame, and now you can experience it in 4K, meaning four times the terror! Just do yourself a favour, and ignore the sequel, it takes the American ending (aka the alternative ending), and not the super bleak one from the UK (and international release). No offence to thew filmmakers behind the sequel, but it was completely unnecessary.