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''The Descent'' is a 2005 British horror film written and directed by Neil Marshall. The film follows six women who, having entered an unmapped cave system, become trapped and are hunted by troglofaunal flesh-eating humanoids. Filming took place in the United Kingdom. Exterior scenes were filmed at Ashridge Park, Buckinghamshire. Because the filmmakers considered it too dangerous and time-consuming to shoot in an actual cave, interior scenes were filmed on sets built at Pinewood Studios near London. ''The Descent'' opened commercially 8 July 2005 in the United Kingdom. It premiered in the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and opened commercially on 4 August 2006 in the United States. A sequel, titled ''The Descent Part 2'', was released in 2009 and depicts events that take place two days after the end of the original film. It was successful, earning twice as much as the film's budget; however, not as much as the original and was not as favorably reviewed. == Plot == Juno (Natalie Mendoza), Sarah (Shauna Macdonald) and Beth (Alex Reid) are whitewater rafting in Scotland. Sarah's husband Paul (Oliver Milburn) and their daughter Jessica (Molly Kayll) wave and cheer from the bank. Juno is seen talking intimately with Paul by Beth. On the drive back to their hotel, Paul gets distracted, causing a collision. Paul and Jessica are killed, but Sarah survives. One year later, Juno, Sarah, Beth, Sam (MyAnna Buring) and Rebecca (Saskia Mulder) are reunited at a cabin in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, USA. Holly (Nora-Jane Noone), Juno's new friend, is introduced. As they reminisce over an old photo of Juno, Sarah, and Beth, Sarah says "Love each day", explaining that it was a saying of her late husband's. The next morning the group goes spelunking. When the group breaks for lunch in a huge gallery, Juno tearfully apologises to Sarah for not being there for her after the accident, but Sarah is distant. As the group moves through the next passage it collapses behind them, with Sarah barely making it through. After a heated discussion, Juno admits that she has led them into an unknown cave system, instead of the fully explored cave system they planned for. The only people who were told about their expedition think they are at the other cave system, making rescue impossible. They are trapped, and the chance of another exit is very low. Privately, Juno tells Sarah that she led them into the unknown cave hoping to restore their relationship, but Sarah rebuffs her. As the group presses forward, they discover climbing equipment from a previous visitor, and a cave painting that suggests a second exit exists. Holly, thinking she sees sunlight, runs ahead, and falls down a hole and breaks her leg. Sam sets Holly's fracture with a splint and they carry her. As the others help Holly, Sarah wanders off and observes a pale, humanoid creature drinking at a pool. It scampers off into the darkness when Sarah gasps. The others think Sarah imagined it, but Sarah insists that she saw someone. Soon after they come across a den of animal bones, and are suddenly attacked by one of the creatures. The group scatter, and the crawler rips out Holly's throat. Sarah trips and falls and passes out. Seeing Holly is still alive, Juno tries to defend her from the crawlers, but Holly is ultimately dragged away. After a brutal fight, a frenzied Juno hears something approaching behind her and whirls around, only to stab Beth through the neck with her pickaxe. Beth grabs Juno's pendant as she drops to the ground, but Juno stumbles away in shock as Beth reaches out to her. Sarah awakens to find herself in a den of human and animal carcasses, where Holly's body drops from a hole in the ceiling. Sarah is forced to hide and watch crawlers feast upon her corpse before pressing forward. Juno discovers markings pointing to a specific path through the caves. She eventually locates Sam and Rebecca and rescues them from a crawler. Realizing that the creatures are blind and hunt through sound, Juno deduces that there is a second entrance where the crawlers bring down their prey to eat. Juno tells them the markings she discovered may point to the way out, but she will not leave without Sarah. Meanwhile, Sarah encounters the mortally wounded Beth, who tells Sarah that Juno wounded her and left her. Sarah does not believe her until Beth gives her Juno's pendant, which Sarah finds out to have the words "love each day" inscribed on it – revealing Juno's affair with Sarah's husband. Beth, in extreme pain, asks Sarah to euthanize her, and Sarah reluctantly complies, smashing her head with a rock. Sarah is soon set upon by a family of crawlers, and in the ensuing struggle, falls into a pool of blood. Managing to kill the entire crawler family, Sarah descends into a feral state of survival, letting out a scream of madness. Elsewhere, Juno, Sam and Rebecca are pursued by a large group of crawlers. Crawlers kill Sam and Rebecca, and Juno leaps into a chasm to escape. Juno climbs out of the chasm and is helped onto a ledge by a bloodsoaked Sarah, who asks her if she saw Beth die. Juno, in shock, nods. The two push through the caves until they encounter a group of crawlers and defeat them. Sarah then faces Juno, and shows that she has Juno's pendant, revealing that she knows that she wounded and left Beth for dead and also about her affair. Sarah cripples Juno with a pickaxe. Juno pulls the pickaxe from her leg and turns to face a large group of crawlers while Sarah leaves her behind, Juno's fighting screams fade as Sarah goes further. Sarah falls down a hole and is knocked unconscious. She awakens, scrambles up a huge pile of bones towards daylight, squeezes through a narrow opening onto the surface, runs to her vehicle and speeds off. She pulls over to vomit and sees Juno sitting next to her, her face streaked with blood. Sarah screams and reawakens to find herself still in the cavern, revealing that the events since her previous awakening were a dream. She sees her smiling daughter close by and a birthday cake between them. The field of view widens to reveal that Sarah is hallucinating and she is actually staring at a torch. The calls of the crawlers grow louder as the movie ends, but Sarah is oblivious. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Descent」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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