10 Movie Villains Secretly Introduced Way Earlier Than You Realise
4. The Early Crawler Presence - The Descent
Viewed very much as a classic of its time - well, depending on which version of the ending you watch - Neil Marshall's The Descent wowed the horror community when it was released back in 2005.
Once the picture gets going, the crux of The Descent is that there's a group of friends, trapped in a dark, dank cave, while vicious creatures stalk them at every turn.
For The Descent, is doesn't amp up the 'crawlers' element of dread until a fair way through the movie. Instead, the early goings establish the group dynamic and some of the fractured relationships of the six women who decided it was a smart idea to go spelunking.
Tensions boil over, the atmosphere is strained, and you start to wonder whether these six will ever make it out of the cave in once piece - and that's before the crawlers are even introduced.
On the crawlers front, though, and one of these humanoid beasties was slyly introduced under the audience's nose way before the creatures truly came to the fore.
As we see our core group of protagonists first enter the cave setting and get adjusted to their new surroundings, a flick of a flashlight showcases a brief look at a crawler watching on from behind a rock - giving the eagle-eyed amongst us an idea of what to expect from this underground forray.