Where is the descent filmed

As the group moves through the next passage it collapses behind them, with Sarah barely making it through. After a heated discussion, Juno admits that she has led them into an unknown cave system, instead of the fully explored cave system they planned for. The only people who were told about their expedition think they are at the other cave system, making rescue impossible. They are trapped with no way out. Privately, Juno explains to Sarah that she led them into the unknown cave hoping to restore their relationship, but Sarah rebuffs her.

The group discovers a cave painting and climbing equipment from a previous visitor, suggesting a second exit exists. Juno keeps the latter secret, allowing for the group to remain hopeful.

Holly falls down a hole and breaks her leg. Sam sets Holly's fracture with a splint and they carry her. As the others help Holly, Sarah wanders off and observes a pale, humanoid creature drinking at a pool. It scampers off into the darkness when Sarah gasps. The others think Sarah imagined it, but Sarah insists that she saw someone. Soon after they are attacked by one of the creatures. The group scatter, and the crawler rips Holly's throat. Sarah trips and falls and passes out.

Seeing Holly is still alive barely , Juno tries to defend her from the crawlers, but upon hearing a figure coming behind her, she spins around and stabs it through the neck with a pickaxe, assuming that it is a crawler.

However, it was actually just Beth. Beth grabs Juno's pendant as she drops to the ground, but Juno stumbles away in shock as Beth reaches out to her.

Juno eventually locates Sam and Rebecca and rescues them from a crawler. Juno tells them she may have found a way out, but will not leave without Sarah. The others reluctantly agree to help her search. Meanwhile, Sarah awakens and encounters the mortally wounded Beth, who tells Sarah that Juno wounded her and left her. Sarah does not believe her until Beth gives her Juno's pendant, which Sarah finds out to have the words "love each day" inscribed on it — revealing that Juno had an affair with Sarah's husband.

Beth, in extreme pain, asks Sarah to euthanize her, and Sarah reluctantly complies, smashing her head with a rock. Sarah soon encounters and kills a young crawler; a female crawler, apparently the young crawler's mother, attacks Sarah, who falls into a pool of blood. With a bone, she kills the crawler. Elsewhere, Juno, Sam and Rebecca are pursued by a large group of crawlers.

Crawlers kill Sam and Rebecca, and Juno leaps into a chasm to escape. Juno climbs out of the chasm and is helped onto a ledge by Sarah, who asks her if she saw Beth die. Juno lies to her by nodding. The two cautiously explore the caves until they encounter a group of crawlers and defeat them. Sarah then faces Juno, and explains that she has Juno's pendant and that she knows that she wounded and left Beth for dead and also about her affair.

Sarah strikes Juno in the leg with a pickaxe. Juno pulls the pickaxe from her leg and turns to face a large group of crawlers while Sarah leaves her behind, Juno's fighting screams fading as Sarah goes further. Sarah falls down a hole and is knocked unconscious. She awakens, scrambles up a huge pile of bones towards daylight, squeezes through a narrow opening onto the surface, runs to her vehicle and speeds off.

She pulls over to vomit and sees Juno sitting next to her, her face streaked with blood. Sarah screams and reawakens to find herself still in the cavern, revealing the events since her previous awakening were a dream. She sees her smiling daughter close by and a birthday cake between them. The field of view widens to reveal that Sarah is hallucinating and she is actually staring at a torch.

Combine the terror of claustrophobia, being hunted, and classic paranoia, and you have the making of a perfect horror. In the original British release, the film ends with Sarah escaping, but then waking up back in the cave. Thus, her escape is merely a dream, and the film ends on a shot of Sarah hallucinating the image of her daughter, whilst the monsters close in. You have to wonder what that says about us in Britain… we were quite satisfied with the doom and gloom finale!

He wanted the audience to know that the monsters are a subset, if you will, of the human race, believing that would be scarier than making them something alien. The Crawlers are men, women, and children, all living together as a colony, just like the rest of us do. However, Marshall noticed that there are hardly any female-exclusive horror casts, and changed his mind. To avoid stereotyping the characters, he solicited advice from female friends about what they might discuss and how they might behave under the circumstances.

Filming inside real caves was deemed too dangerous and too time-consuming, so an interior cave set was built at Pinewood studios, near London, where all interior scenes took place. Six cave sets were built, in total. Marshall even explained that he filmed, but cut out, a dark shot of a Crawler-like figure in the hospital nightmare sequence near the beginning of the film when Sarah wakes up and is running through the corridors.

However, the sequel firmly enforces that the Crawlers are real. One of them, the most heavily featured, even has a name — Scar, and was played by Craig Conway known for Dog Soldiers , Prey, and The Aliens, amongst many more.

To enhance this, the actors playing the cave explorers were kept separate from the actors playing the Crawlers, even during lunch. I was running around afterwards, laughing in this hysterical way and trying to hide the fact that I was pretty freaked out. Even after that scene, we never really felt comfortable with them.

For the sequel, Hyett improved the camouflaging ability of the crawlers' skin tones to deliver better scares. According to Hyett, "Jon wanted them more viciously feral, inbred, scarred and deformed, with rows of sharklike teeth for ripping flesh. The film is dedicated to Meg, Neil Marshall's beloved dog that died halfway through production. At 56 mins. The night vision shot of bones is actually a miniature.

The pajamas that see the women bursting into laughter weren't in the original script, but when the costume department provided them Neil Marshall and his cast couldn't resist having a laugh. Filmmakers originally planned for the cast to be both male and female, but Neil Marshall 's business partner realised that horror films rarely have all-female casts. He explained the difference, "The women discuss how they feel about the situation, which the soldiers in Dog Soldiers would never have done.

The sequence where the women see the crawler for the first time, via the night vision camera, was actually their first real glimpse of the creature. Neil Marshall had kept the performers separate so the women wouldn't see the costumed beasts beforehand.

They had the lights off and brought the performer in, and then revealed him as the visibility returned it went over well with screaming and running on the part of the cast.

The cave entrance, shown from overhead, is CG. Claustrophobia is a big aspect of the film's fear, but Neil Marshall had no clue how many people were affected by it until he started showing the film to audiences. At 47 mins. The glimpse of the crawler was crafted so that the cast wouldn't see it yet - Neil Marshall made them think he was filming them walking away but was actually capturing the creature's profile.

The Crawlers have the auditory Shout-Out to the Predator series. They're similar to the clicks dolphins make, and are a very early tip-off that they use echo location. Simon Bowles designed the maze of caves for The Descent. Reviews credited Bowles: e. There were initially scenes of the women discussing the crawlers' possible origins in detail, but Neil Marshall wisely cut it as imagined exposition doesn't help the film. The little girl is played by Neil Marshall's niece, Molly Kayll.

At around 33 mins. The tight tunnel crawl was used for several of the women's audition scene. They did it beneath a table lined tightly with chairs. The cast members were taken to a rock-climbing center in Derbyshire to help prepare them for filming. Production of the film competed with a big budget American film that had a similar premise, The Cave The Descent was originally scheduled to be released in the United Kingdom by November or February , but The Cave began filming six months before its competitor.

The filmmakers of The Descent decided to release their film before The Cave, so they fast-tracked production to be completed by the end of February Composer David Julyan scored the film, which was ideal for Neil Marshall as it was Julyan's Insomnia score that he listened to on repeat while writing the script. The Danish title for the movie is "Descent Into Hell. When Neil Marshall 's film Dog Soldiers was a moderate success, the director received numerous requests to direct other horror films.

The director was initially wary of being typecast as a horror film director, although he eventually agreed to make The Descent, emphasising, "They are very different films. The young performer playing the "child" crawler also plays a child zombie in 28 Days Later The cabin they found to film in only has one room, so they had to redress it each time they wanted to pretend otherwise.

Noone is originally from Galway, Ireland herself. The first crawlspace is clearly limestone, notoriously treacherous for cave-ins if not reinforced by more stable minerals. Given the close proximity to a riverbed, it's not unreasonable to assume it's just a thin coating in a level 2 cave. MyAnna Buring's debut. A possible and less gruesome Shout-Out to Neil Marshall's previous film, Dog Soldiers , occurs when Sam has to push Holly's splintered bone back into her leg - in Dog Soldiers, Cooper has to push Wells' intestines back into him.

Another, very subtle, Dog Soldiers reference, doubling as a Mythology Gag: When Sarah discovers an old helmet in the cave, a closer look reveals the name "Oswald" written on the brim.