10 Things You Didn't Know About The Descent
2. The Conspiracy Theory That Nearly Came True
Conspiracy theories are part and parcel of the world of horror films, with fans scouring every inch of a movie and sharing their mindblowing discoveries on internet forums to anyone that will listen. Most of the time these are just fun things to think about and are quickly dismissed by the film's creators and communities, however, in the case of The Descent, there was one hidden theory that came very close to being proven true.
Prior to the release of the film's sequel, which Neil Marshall never wanted, a theory surfaced that the entire movie was just a hallucination from Sarah's traumatised mind and that she had in fact killed all of her friends in the caves as she descended further and further into insanity, hence the entire name of the film.
Marshall actually gave the theory a bit of a nod by claiming that he had in fact removed a silhouetted Crawler from the shadows in Sarah's hospital hallucination, claiming that this would have given away that the cave-dwellers weren't real.
Sadly, the film's sequel pretty much put all of that to bed.