10 Terrifying Movie Characters You Never Actually Got To See
6. Crawlers - The Descent
The Descent was a painfully claustrophobic British horror film about a group of cavers who get trapped in an unmapped set of caves, and then realise that they are being stalked by unknown creatures within. Had the film just been about being trapped in a cave, that couldve been quite enough fear for most, as tight camerawork and a tense interpersonal atmosphere creates a perfectly horrifying film in itself as the group try and find an exit. With intense scenes involving members of the team getting stuck in between the rocks, along the discovery of an abandoned set of climbing equipment, the viewer really gets an up close and personal sense of how trapped the women really are. If all that wasnt bad enough, The Descent then throws in some cave-dwelling carnivorous monsters. When protagonist Sarah sees a pale figure drinking at one of the underground pools, the others dismiss it as a mistake on her part (in fairness, being stuck in a cave with someone who is hallucinating is probably better than being stuck in a cave with vicious troglodytes). The crawlers are mostly seen in flashes of terror, as in the dark its hard to tell whats shadow and whats about eat one of the team. The Descent is one of the few films that doesnt elicit laughter when the monster is finally revealed, as theyre recognisably humanoid but not so disfigured that they look ridiculous. On and off screen, the crawlers are fast, brutal, and horrifying, and bring about as much terror whether theyre screaming for blood, or just scuttling in the corners of the sound stage.
