"The Descent" one of the best horror films in some time

This movie has the horror formula right: sexy vixens and lots of Chuds, cannibalistic humanoid underworld dwellers that is. I've gotta recommend this one to all the horror fans out there, just listen to the premise: a bunch of beautiful, athletic, young women decide to go spelunking in order to help one of them overcome the loss of her husband and child. Right off the bat it got my attention. Well, at least there was the promise of lots of tight squeezes in hot steamy underground caverns.

I really ended up enjoying this movie and I don't usually like horror films. The Chuds looked really great and it was nice to see an all-female, hapless cast of monster bate. I'm no misogynist; I just get sick of it time and again being that only that men know that the ice axe goes through the monsters skull.

The foreshadowing was handled very well. Anyone who has seen a horror flick can pick out some great monster indicators that build up the suspense: bloody claw marks, slime where there should be no slime, and the occasional mysteriously rotten animal. All very well done, and the gore is also top notch. This director utilizes blood well, and often. The chuds of course spray gallons of blood in a several foot splash zone and like any good chud have blood pools that the main character conveniently enough falls into. After that we get to see a crazy blood covered vixen poping chuds with a torch and an axe, magnificent.