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From the Wiki for this film: "In the original release in the United Kingdom, an extended ending is presented, which was cut for the US release over concerns that it was too depressing. After hallucinating the image of Juno, Sarah awakens in the cave, her entire escape having been revealed to be part of the same hallucination. She sits up to see Jessica sitting across from her, holding a birthday cake. As Sarah smiles the shot widens to reveal that the cake's birthday-candlelight is actually the light of her torch. The camera slowly backs out, revealing the darkness surrounding Sarah as the crawlers are heard closing in."
The whole subtext of friendship and betrayal is key. Juno was having an affair with Sarah's husband. Grief and loyalty play a role especially when Juno left the other girl to die. Sarah could not forgive twice.
I think it's more about honesty. Juno could be honest about her affair with Sarah's husband, and she choose not do it. And again, Juno could be honest about Beth's death when Sarah asks her, but once more, Juno choose not be honest with her. The same thing apply with Juno not telling them about the cave in the begging of the journey.
Also my favorite horror movie. I watch it once a year, on Halloween night (always the extended version). The thing about it is, it would still be a great movie even without the flesh eating creatures.
Had me and my brother yelling and screaming so loud, my sister in law was afraid to sleep and she didn’t even watch it with us 😂😂😂 Also my brother is a hard-ass macho guy. He was roller-coaster screaming at the jump scares 😂 one of my favorite memories 😅
I still get sad that most people don't see the extended ending for thisovie when watching it, it's actually really scary to me, especially when I watched it the first time
I didn't know there were 2 different endings.... I was so confused with this version in this reaction .... Cause when I watched it, I remember distinctly that sarah is still stuck inside and it's just a vision....
Fun Facts: In the special features for the movie they described the creatures as the cavemen who never left the caves. Also the director purposely hid what the creatures looked like from the cast, so in the scene when they all encounter one for the first time as it jump scares them, that is their genuine fearful reaction IN REAL LIFE. One of the many reasons this movie is tied with Alien for my all time favorite horror movie. Also I LOVE that Roxy is now a full blown Reel Reject. She’s absolutely perfect, both for the channel, and in real life. Love you Roxstar!❤❤
Honestly, it was NOT Juno's fault. If that was a creature, and she hesitated with the swing, her neck would get torn out in that millisecond of hesitation. She's running high on adrenaline and was in a fight to the death, and it's heightened by the fact that she just discovered monsters are real and she saw one kill her friend. Beth walking up to her from behind in total silence was insane.
I know it worked for the movie, but I don’t blame juno for that either. I know how jumpy I get just when there’s a bug in the room. I would’ve totally killed that girl by accident, too! To walk silently to someone and place your hand on their shoulder w/o saying anything in that situation IS crazy!
I don't blame her either. She shouldn't have lied about it though. I also get that she was likely in shock, but she should have said something to Beth in the moment.
If you go back and watch this again you'll notice alot of scenes with the creatures hidden around, like the scene near the start in the big open cave system where it's super red, on the far left you'll see it standing and going into a crouch, Hands down one of the best horrors ever made, please do the second 🙏
The character of Juno makes this film so interesting. She's kind of a villain but also does heroic admirable things so it's hard to totally hate her. I also love the little detail of the old piece of climbing gear in the ceiling, that reveals someone had been there decades before.
Honestly what makes her easy to hate for many others is that she prefers to be dishonest and doesnt show regrets about it. All for self-preservation. She even had the Husbands words on her, like who does that especially when you intentionally invite the Widow on the trip. 😂
@@fatty1040yeah. She starts to redeem herself towards the end. But her dishonesty is ultimately what led everyone down this chain of events, from the accident, to lying about the cave being previously explored.
@@TheAOTSdude I said she starts to, implying she doesn't get to completely redeem herself. Evidence of this is that she does actively try to save her friends. Sure she ended up abandoning the one she hit accidentally, but keep in mind that left her in shock. After that she even goes to look for the MC (forgot her name) despite having every reason to just do her best to run away and not help anyone.
Juno definitely was not at fault for killing the one friend. It’s the middle of a survival situation & the friend sneaks up on Juno without saying a word? She asked to die. However, Juno covering it up by saying a crawler killed the friend was a problem.
Thats the crux of the issue. She has literally been dishonest *THE ENTIRE MOVIE* to rid herself of guilt. Hell she even had the husband words on her, clearly she didnt give any fs.
@@fatty1040I disagree. She does clearly care, but she has a problem admitting guilt, even though she knows it was wrong. Even though her friend's death was an accident, she couldn't stomach to say it, which is in my opinion an understandable thing to do. There's more nuance to the character than people are making her out to be. It is all her fault though.
@@ColombianThunder If you cant admit guilt you are literally not caring about the situation lol. Look at soldiers, they have the balls to admit it to themselves. Do they keep going yes, but they dont hide their actions or what they did.
I saw this in the theater. The first time the creature is seen behind her in the camera, all I saw was popcorn flying everywhere and everyone screamed. It was AMAZING to see a movie freak that many people at one time. 😅
I highly, HIGHLY recommend anyone who enjoyed this movie to find it on DVD just for the director's commentary. The way they made it is incredible, and some of the tricks Neil Marshall pulled to make sure the actors really appeared scared were awesome (and not abusive, as we know sometimes can happen in some productions...)
What gets me about Juno is that while she is fighting for her life against demons or aliens. She still has the mental energy to CHOOSE to lie about what she does to Beth. 😂. Plus having the Husbands necklace words on her while Intentionally inviting the Widow Sarah?!?! Wow! lol. It seems no matter what that friendship was gonna die.
I think what's scariest about this is that they AREN'T demons or aliens, there's nothing to indicate these are anything but animals. I think the creators said that they're descendants of ancient cavemen who stayed in the caves and evolved into these things. So nothing supernatural going on, just natural creatures with a helluva home field advantage
The title is definitely a double meaning. She's still not recovered from losing her child, and it's hinted that she knew or suspected her husband was cheating. She still has nightmares of the event and hallucinates hearing/seeing her child. The og ending ties it all together so much better; leave to the US cut to undermine a beautiful story for the sake of a jumpscare ending.
Such a treat to enter this movie with no idea of what's coming. I totally forgot how this sets us up for totally different types of horror at the beginning than what we end up getting.
I completely missed Juno's "We *all* lost something in that crash" line, because I was too busy noticing a hand/claw silhouette when Sarah's shining her light around the cave, and after she moves back to it, it's GONE. When I first saw it when watching the movie, thought I was imagining it, so I replayed it and it was real. And Sarah *doesn't* notice it, nor do seemingly any of the reactions I've seen to this so far..
I’d like to mention my favourite part about the shots in this movie is that the “twist” about the real dangers of the cave were actually in view of almost every wide establishing shot before they even show up, if you look in some of the corners or partially illuminated spots you can see either silhouettes or just the creatures outright blending in with the environment it’s so cool
In the uncut original version Sarah does not make it out. After her vision of Juno in her car, Sarah wake up back in the cave with crawlers sound closing in on her. Then she has vision of her daughter and a birthday cake. Then camera pull back in the cave to imply Sarah will die.
Crawling through a tight space in a cave scares me in a way that no monster ever could. I love scary movies, to get the short excitement of a jump scare…but these types of movies keep me “on the edge” for minutes at a time.
No joke, I am a friend of the director and was actually supposed to be going to his house tonight for a party but the trains are screwed in the UK; opened up RU-vid and here are you guys reacting to his film 😁 going to watch this instead and will send it onto him when I’m done- awesome stuff!
The score that you praised is done by David Julyan. David Julyan also did the score for the horror movie "Eden Lake (2008)". I would highly recommend that movie to you! It really is an emotional gut punch, the ending will make you ... I'm not sure but it is really the opposite of a happy ending! Hopefully other people agree that you should check Eden Lake (2008) out!
In the alternate ending version, she gets to the car and then parks up same. But instead of seeing her friend, when the truck goes past she wakes up still inside the cave because she passed out and dreamt escaping.
I saw this movie for the first time during Covid, and man I’ll say this it is without a doubt one of the best horror movies of the modern century. And I’d say that is one of the best creature features ever made.
It does have a sequel "The Descent 2" it takes place right after this one and wraps up the storyline for this movie and actually just as good if not better! 🙎♂️
@@flyany6682 oh wait crap you're right my bad. Sorry I am just stuck in an infinite loop of thinking that the first one is the only one that exists for some reason. I hadn't heard good things about the second so I just filtered it out.
I saw this in the theater…I’ll never forget it! I was terrified because it’s actually scary and thrilling. But also because I’m scared of being stuck in closed in spaces. I love how the movie progresses and changes. I love the camera shots and cinematography. I love the writing because you’re uncovering things about the characters as you’re discovering things about the caves. I also feel like how things keep twisting and turning as well.
Unfortunately you did not watch the original ending, and the one the director intended, which is where Sarah, after seeing Juno in the car, wakes back up in the cave, revealing that she was just imaging her escape, surrounded by multiple of cave creatures, only to imagine her daughter being with her one last time. Much better ending than this one.
Yeah, they watched the American ending. The original British ending is what you describe, that's the one I saw in the cinema. The American distributor altered it so the sequel they were financing could start with Sarah having escaped.
If it's these things you're afraid of then the locust horde would like a chat with you cuz I would be more afraid of that than these dumbasss locusts are the worse subterranean bastards in town.
The ending in the UK was different she tripped about getting out (she didn’t) and then the last shoot was her still in the cave, the fire going out and surrounded by these freaks
The cave scenes were all filmed in sets at Pinewood Studios. They built them in separate sections that could be moved around and reoriented to create different chambers and passages.
Im sure there's a lot of comments about this already and you might say it later in the video idk, but there are mulitple versions of this film, with different scenes and endings..
There's technically only 1 other version, the original UK version aka extended version aka unrated. It doesn't have any different scenes, just an extended ending. The US theatrical version cuts the last minute off.
This film is all my fears crammed into less than 2hrs. Seen it many times. To this day, I have to watch something Disney after it so I can actually sleep. It's the moment at the end when the camera pans out and you realise that the candles weren't candles and the shadows start to move. Absolutely chilling.
Fun fact: The majority of the movie was shot in a sound studio, as it would’ve been too difficult and dangerous for the crew to film in an actual cave with expensive equipment. The designer, Simon Bowles, made the caverns out of wooden frames and foam and added all the details of stalactites. He also kept the movie from going too over-budget by reusing the set and rearranging them. The shots of the mountains and forests were shots of the Apalachians. More interesting and hilarious is that the Crawler actors had to undergo many hours of makeup and prosthetics, so there's a ton of behind the scenes footage of the actors goofing around in full makeup and it's a delight to watch 😂
When I first watched this movie, I was conflicted with Juno cus despite having an affair with her friends husband & getting everyone trapped in the cave, we can all agree she had the potential to be a final girl along with Sarah.
@@TheAOTSdudebut they all would have died from the crawlers immediately without her. (also they would never be near the crawlers if not for her, but Juno tried to clean up the mess she made, and she looked prettt badass while doing it. still Team Sarah though)
My theory is that Sarah never recovered from the crash. She's either in a coma/catatonic and everything after the crash is in her head or she died and this is her hell. Also don't bother with part 2 lol. I think I also saw a theory that Sarah went mad and actually killed them all.
This is a great movie , so so many jump scares that are totally earned , from the opening jaw dropping death of Sarah's Husband and Daughter to the scene when they pan around in the bone pit and the Crawler is behind one of the Girls was so great , I saw this on a date who wanted to see a scary movie so very good choice there . I think using actresses who are not major big names really works in the films favour . The Cinematography and sound design are fantastic and so effective , having a movie about descending into caves is scary enough with a amazing claustrophobic feel and atmosphere is great throw in the Crawlers and it makes it so much scarier . This is the second movie from Neil Marshall whose first movie Dog Soldiers from 2002 is truly truly great too in fact I prefer Dog Soldiers over this as Descent is a pure Horror movie and Dog Soldiers is a Horror Comedy with really likable characters I would highly recommend Dog Soldiers . Neil Marshall also directed some of the more action packed Game of Thrones episodes like Blackwater , I have not seen Descent part 2 Neil Marshall is apparently Executive Director but with a different Director . There is a cut of Descent which has a different ending I think it may be the US release but I have only ever seen the UK release . Glad to see you mentioned The Ritual another great Horror with really likeable characters and has elements of other Horrors like Blair Witch and Evil Dead but not enough of other movies to feel they are ripping them off .
Neil Marshall is one of the most inventive directors and script writers. Please watch he's other classic 'dog soldiers ' when you get a chance. Great reactions guys.
Why did i watch this reaction right before bedtime, claustrophobia really gets set off in this one. again why am i like this. Great reaction Roxy, and Greg!
I've probably watched 30 reactions for this film and in every case, the female knows within 2 seconds of that opening shot that Juno is sleeping with Sarah's husband
When i first saw this years after it came out i wasnt sure if it was gonna be any good...i dont remember if it even hit the theater...dont think it did. I loved it. Loved the fact of how uncomfortable and claustrophobic it made me feel. Loved the fact all the girls were from different countries too.
"As Above So Below". Same kind of vibe as this movie. But more found footage and without the creatures. But one of my favorite horror movies ever. Would definitely put it up there with this movie as well.
I liked the movie a lot. There is a second movie and I liked it too. The only real bad part was it ended leading up to a third movie that they never made.
By the way, what happens in the scene after she mercy kills Beth is that a child crawler jumps her and she kills it, then the mother crawler comes up and find her dead baby and goes after her, resulting in the bloody pool fight
Fun fact, the movie was not filmed in a cave it was entirely filmed on a set. The same set in fact, they would just rearrange the rocks and walls to look like different cave passages. They also super-imposed actors onto miniatures that they had built.
The whole thing was shot sequentially on a set, so the scenes were shot in order as the set designers built and rebuilt the sets as the production went on.
I remember that I was hyped for the movie because Dog Soldiers was such a gem, but the real horror wasn't the creatures but being in a fucking dark, cramped cave. Fuck spelunking.
Great movie and still one of my favorites. I didn't realize at first that Juno's line about the climbing equipment (cam) they found being over 100 years old was the origins of these cave creatures.
I love this movie, it's one of my favorite horror films because of the gutwrenching terror and unpredictable deaths. It made me scared of caves lol The alternate ending is top tier and better than the original ending but not a lot of people know about it
This film was a brilliant & terrifying experience when I first watched it in a packed cinema back then 😱 It still holds up as a great horror film today.
Totally agree that sequel is like universally hated & no idea why??? The characters were definitely dumber that's for sure but I really enjoy the sequel
Princess Mononoke is probably my favorite title, cause it's just really fun to say. 😂 Everyone please suggest horror movies with romances for Roxy to check out. The only one I can really think of at the moment that's terrible but also fun is the house on haunted hill remake. Love that movie.
