The Descent - Discesa nelle tenebre

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The Descent is heavily influenced by the old radio show "Behind the Locked Door", written and p [...]	D
The cast members were taken to a rock-climbing center in Derbyshire to help prepare them for fi [...]	D
Claustrophobia is a big aspect of the film's fear, but Neil Marshall had no clue how many peopl [...]	D
The young performer playing the "child" crawler also plays a child zombie in 28 Days Later (200 [...]	D
Neil Marshall shot many of the crawlers at 18 frames per second with a 45-degree shutter to giv [...]	D
Prior to the release of the sequel, it was speculated among fans that the crawlers may have bee [...]	D
The neon lightsticks seen in the film were purchased from an adult toy shop.	D
(at around 1 min) As stated in the cast commentary on the special edition DVD, Shauna Macdonald [...]	D
At 56 mins.) The night vision shot of bones is actually a miniature.	D
Simon Bowles designed the maze of caves for The Descent. Reviews credited Bowles: e.g., "Bowles [...]	D
MyAnna Buring's debut.	D
The little girl is played by Neil Marshall's niece, Molly Kayll.	D
The scene where Sarah finds Beth barely clinging to life originally featured some "truly shit" [...]	D
The filmmakers considered it too dangerous to film in an actual cave. It also would have been f [...]	D
The film's poster art was borrowed from a portrait photograph by Philippe Halsman of Salvador D [...]	D
The appearance of the creatures was kept secret from the cast members until the first scene in [...]	D
(at around 10 mins) Holly (Nora-Jane Noone) says that she base-jumped from every building in Ga [...]	D
The title refers to not only the women's journey through the caves, but each character's slow d [...]	D
One of the crevices built for the film was so narrow and slippery that the female cast dubbed i [...]	D
When Neil Marshall's film Dog Soldiers (2002) was a moderate success, the director received num [...]	D
Shauna Macdonald was slightly claustrophobic, so she found it easy to act scared and panicky wh [...]	D
The pajamas that see the women bursting into laughter weren't in the original script, but when [...]	D
There was only one cabin for the morning scenes. Props were switched out and the angle at which [...]	D
The park where the women are supposedly meeting, "Chatooga National Park," does not exist. The [...]	D
Every actress in the group is from a different country: Shauna Macdonald (Sarah) was raised in [...]	D
Tobin Bell (Jigsaw/John Kramer in the "Saw" series) said in an interview that this was one of h [...]	D
Production on this film was fast-tracked so that the movie could be released before the similar [...]	D
The split second shot of a crawler's silhouette before they are encountered for the first time [...]	D
No real caves appear anywhere in film. They were all sets built at Pinewood Studios, London cre [...]	D
Director Neil Marshall initially wanted to pass on the project, having just done another horror [...]	D
According to the audio commentary on the special edition DVD, there was an exact replica made o [...]	D
Production of the film competed with a big budget American film that had a similar premise, Il [...]	D
Twenty-one separate cave sets were built for the film. These were carefully reused with differe [...]	D
At around 33 mins.) The tight tunnel crawl was used for several of the women's audition scene. [...]	D
(at around 36 mins) Watch closely during the scene after the cave-in. While the girls are argui [...]	D
Composer David Julyan scored the film, which was ideal for Neil Marshall as it was Julyan's Ins [...]	D
The cave entrance, shown from overhead, is CG.	D
With the exception of Sarah's husband, as well as some non-speaking extras in the hospital scen [...]	D
The sequence where the women see the crawler for the first time, via the night vision camera, w [...]	D
The Danish title for the movie is "Descent Into Hell."	D
Filmmakers originally planned for the cast to be both male and female, but Neil Marshall's busi [...]	D
In the end scene, in the very last shot of the birthday cake, one more candle was added, increa [...]	D
(at around 15 mins) When Juno goes to wake up her friends, she flings the door open, ripping th [...]	D
The actors among the female rock-climbing crew and the actors who played the cave-dwellers were [...]	D
The first crawlspace is clearly limestone, notoriously treacherous for cave-ins if not reinforc [...]	D
Director Neil Marshall didn't have one specific ending in mind during filming, so he agreed to [...]	D
(at around 1h 30 mins) During Sarah's imagined escape in the blue 4x4, director Neil Marshall g [...]	D
At director Neil Marshall's insistence, all the people playing the villainous "crawlers" were p [...]	D
The original ending, in which Sarah didn't escape, was the final shot of the movie.	D
Neil Marshall cited the films Non aprite quella porta (1974), La cosa (1982), and Un tranquillo [...]	D
The film is dedicated to Meg, Neil Marshall's beloved dog that died halfway through production [...]	D
A possible (and less gruesome) Shout-Out to Neil Marshall's previous film, Dog Soldiers (2002), [...]	D
(at around 1h 2 mins) Among the bones that Sarah falls into is a wolf's head, which came from o [...]	D
The Crawlers have the auditory Shout-Out to the Predator series. They're similar to the clicks [...]	D
At 47 mins.) The glimpse of the crawler was crafted so that the cast wouldn't see it yet - Neil [...]	D
The American edit of the film ends with Sarah escaping from the cave and driving away, finally [...]	D
Leslie Simpson played two crawlers, as each was killed onscreen. He was the crawler whose eyes [...]	D
(at around 21 mins) When the women are looking at the cave that they are about to enter, one of [...]	D
The crawlers were designed by Paul Hyett, a makeup and prosthetics creator. Production designer [...]	D
The jokey production name given during filming was "Chicks with Picks."	D
There were initially scenes of the women discussing the crawlers' possible origins in detail, b [...]	D
Neil Marshall described the crawlers as cavemen who have stayed underground. The director expla [...]	D
The "crawlers" were designed to resemble Nosferatu from the film Nosferatu - Il vampiro (1922). [...]	D

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(at around 30 mins) In the first tunnel, when the camera follows one of the girls climbing in it, y [...]	D
(at around 43 mins) While the rock climbing scenes in this movie are technically an order of magnit [...]	D
Cars in North Carolina are not required to have front license plates. Also, the license tag is made [...]	D
When they first cross the chasm, they drop a rock and hear it hit bottom. When they come back later [...]	D
The green light almost never matches the green glowsticks supposedly casting them. Several times th [...]	D
(at around 1h 22 mins) When entering the cave while rappelling none of the girls have gloves, this [...]	D
(at around 16 mins) As the girls are heading to the cave in the 4X4's, the spare wheel switches sid [...]	D
(at around 1h 21 mins) When one of the girls is looking for climbing equipment, but doesn't have an [...]	D
(at around 3 mins) Copper water pipes wouldn't penetrate the front windshield of a car. They are to [...]	D
(at around 1h 25 mins) When one of the girls falls and tries to get up to a tunnel, she grabs a lar [...]	D
All of the spines in the various bone piles throughout the movie have the spines intact and the int [...]	D
For any species there is a minimum viable population, the smallest possible size of a biological gr [...]	D
(at around 1h 30 mins) In the end, when Sarah has parked her car at the side of the road, the entir [...]	D
(at around 25 mins) When Juno lights the flare to reveal the interior of the cave, a crew man is vi [...]	D
(at around 1h 17 mins) When Sarah falls into the pool of blood, the torch falls behind the big rock [...]	D
(at around 1h 18 mins) In the blood pool when a monster is killed by an antler to the eye, the bone [...]	D
The fact that the cave system was unexplored and not the cave system that the group had planned for [...]	D
(at around 20 mins) The dead deer the women find prior to entering the cave is a red deer, which is [...]	D
Several times throughout the movie, as characters brush up against stalactites you can see the stal [...]	D
(at around 46 mins) The cave drawings featured a woolly rhinoceros which lived in Eurasia. None hav [...]	D
On the 4x4 can be seen UK-spec headlights for left-hand traffic, showing that the vehicle in questi [...]	D
(at around 22 mins) Sarah is supposedly an experienced climber. When abseiling into the cave, she i [...]	D
(at around 2 mins) Right at the beginning of the movie Juno gets pushed into the water. Moments lat [...]	D
(at around 3 mins) When the copper poles slide off the driver's roof towards the car Sarah and her [...]	D
Early in the film, when Sarah wakes in the hospital, she exits her room to a completely abandoned c [...]	D
(at around 52 mins) Sarah flashes her torch hearing a noise and it highlights the first 'crawler' d [...]	D
(at around 57 mins) When Holly dies, her pupils contract. At death, however, pupils dilate, not con [...]	D
(at around 48 mins) When Holly drops and breaks her leg, the slip-wire is visible, reflecting in th [...]	D
(at around 1h 24 mins) When Juno falls into the pool towards the end (just before finding Sarah), w [...]	D
(at around 46 mins) The characters find cave drawings on the walls, supposedly drawn by the crawler [...]	D
(at around 41 mins) When the girls are crossing the first chasm. The first two have crossed and the [...]	D
(at around 18 mins) When the girls reach the cave, the blue truck parks and the BMW parks on its le [...]	D
(at around 1h 30 mins) Towards the end when Sarah is driving along the road, the road markings chan [...]	D
(at around 1h 30 mins) In the end, a logging truck is depicted speeding by on the North Carolina hi [...]	D

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