If you have even the most mild case of claustrophobia, you may have to skip Neil Marshall's horror thriller in 2005 "descent". The film is about six experienced specturers who, as a tool for therapy for one of them, descend into an undiscovered cave to go to research. The intention is to be an exercise that requires exciting, but things are upset quite quickly. The caves are not only more complex than they expected, but the main characters soon reveal a mysterious kind of humanoid monsters living in the cave. Most of the film is a crazy attempt to leave the monsters and escape the cave with their lives intact. Not all of them will be successful in that. The "descent" has starred more actresses around the world, including the Scottish sauna McDonald, Australian Natalie Mendoza, the Swedish sauna, British Alex Reid, the Dutch Saskia Mulder and the Irish Nora-Janeain.

The descent was a significant hit, earning over $ 51 million with a budget of about $ 4.7 million. Critics wanted it, and horror fans gathered. It was only the second feature of director Marshall (after the "dog soldiers"), but it would put it on the map, leading to a higher -profile film gigs such as "Doomsday", "Centurion", and a remake in 2019 at Hellboy. In 2024, Marshall was also directed by the "Duchess" and "Force". He is a confident, stylish director with a constant tone during his work.

It also has integrity, as he once refused a sexist note for "next". According to A recent interview with Empire magazineMarshall was once instructed by the studio's heads to make the "lowering" more false. The studio's heads seem to have noticed that "lowering" is about six women and zero men, and realized that the film should contain at least one scene where cast teams collectively discourage. Marshall, pretty wise, rejected this idea.

"The descent" is not a movie. It's about trauma, friendship and survival. The six leading characters are friends with their own unique relationships. It exceeds very common tropes of exploitation films through its work with character and through its intensity; At the very least there is no horny trembling. Unfortunately, the heads of the studio overseeing production, they noted that the cast consisted of six women, and they (probably all direct men) thought that someone couldn't make a horror movie with so many women without at least a little nudity. Marshall woke up, feeling that it would actually do "lowering" more significant just to make a horror movie with six female advantages, really rare. According to his words:

"(Casting) was a conscious thing. At one point during the development phase, someone pointed out that there should be a scene where they came to the lake and everyone would get out and go together. It's kind of things we were dealing with.

Marshall noted that he did not make a movie with six Lara Crofts. Indeed, one of the characters, Beth (a hill), notes that they are all anti-Lara Croft. They are not babies dressed in a pot, built to titulate men. They are real researchers. "We were far before the curve to do such a thing," Marshall continued. "Even now, it's still very rare.

It happens, but as Marshall noted, it's rarely.

The "descent" cast was also interviewed by Empire, and also recalled that there was a conscious effort to deposit the film. They also knew that it was not intended to work for titylated. Fauna McDonald recalled a "descent" press and came across some pretty sexist questions from journalists. As he remembered:

"Natalie (Mendoza) and I was once asked by the radio interviewer whether all our periods were synchronized during the shooting. And that was good? Let's ask a female actor that it was good what we were interested in, but there was such a sexualized, grotesque element.

Saskia Miller admitted that the premise was imposed on the exploitation, noting that it sounds like "it would be six girls in a bikini cave". Fortunately, she found out early in the film that "lowering" would be more sophisticated than that. "The audition has made it clear that it will never be so." Nora-Janeain Nown did not notice that the film is to help someone's girls and build six strong, gorgeous characters. Sensational, sexualized aspects, she said, came later in the process.

Fortunately, in recent years there have been more important horror films to present mostly women characters. May we recall "Host", the film in 2020 For the exiled video call. In 2018, the announcement of Alex Garland's "Destruction" and Luke Guadanjo's "Supernia" were among the best films of that year. Ozgud Perkins did "I am a beautiful job that lives in the house" in 2016 and All three versions of "Black Christmas" (Since 1974, 2006 and 2019), mostly concerns for women and women are characterized.

But it is still rare.