The Descent (2005)
I don’t really consider myself as claustrophobic, but cave exploring is something I have always found scary as a concept. So this film taps right into that, and it is a rare thing for a horror film to get my heart rate up like this did for the first 50 minutes. But then the creatures appeared, and it turned into a more normal, though spectacularly gory, horror and I could relax again. Which is a shame as the first half really had me going unlike almost anything else. Still, the rest of the film is still pretty great despite the usual clichéd horror trappings of dumb decisions, but I think this could have been a great masterpiece if committed itself more to the psychological terror of being trapped under ground. But it is also incredibly unfair to wish for another type of film, when it does what it sets out to do almost perfectly.
Rating: 4