10 Underrated Horror Movie Moments That Will Scar You For Life

Okay, don't get it twisted. Whilst Hellboy remake-r/ otherwise pretty talented director Neil Marshall's 2005 subterranean nightmare The Descent may not have gotten nearly enough love upon release, it's pretty widely accepted that this was due to the film's poor timing, being released near the tragic Tube bombings.

The tense and terrifying tale of a group of women besieged by sightless cannibal mutants deep in an uncharted cave system was immediately critically acclaimed and did soon find an audience amongst genre fans, so it's hardly underrated by most standards.

What is underrated about The Descent, though, is its opening sequence.

Rarely referred to as a highlight of the film, the opening scene may be easy to forget once the claustrophobia of the cave scenes and the sheer visceral gory horror of the closing sequences set in.

But the moment when our heroine's life is all of a sudden destroyed in a second by a stray piece of cargo bisecting her husband and daughter in one fell swoop is arguably more disturbing than anything the rest of the film offers, a devastating and horrifically realistic nightmare from which there's no waking up.