10 Movies You Most Regret Not Seeing At The Cinema

8. The Descent (2005)

Neil Marshall's Brit horror The Descent was the potent shot in the arm that the genre so desperately needed in the mid Noughties. Set almost entirely within the confines of a labyrinthine cave network, the film is a terrifying tale of a group of women who are hunted by vicious beasts when they become trapped in the caves. As with the final moments of Kill List, The Descent thrives on its sense of claustrophobia and the inability to escape. The entire film creates an oppressive sense of walls closing in, even before the first terrifying appearance of the antagonistic "crawlers". In order to get the full force of the film's scares, the darkness and bizarre magic of an auditorium is the perfect place to experience The Descent. Marshall's film is the perfect example of how lo-fi filmmaking needs to be seen in the cinema exactly as much as the latest CGI blockbuster does.
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