Not that you need any reason to revisit one of the best horror films of the past 20 years, but YouTube channel That Film Theory has come up with an interesting theory that will at least bring a little bit of freshness to your next viewing of Neil Marshall’s The Descent.
In the film, a group of female friends head deep into an unexplored cave and come face to face with monsters, with only main character Sarah surviving the nightmarish ordeal. That is, depending on which ending you choose to watch; Sarah doesn’t manage to escape the cave in Marshall’s original ending, but the altered ending for the U.S. release has her escape.
In any event, the channel’s theory is that there weren’t actually any creatures down in the cave at all, but rather they were delusions inside the fractured mind of Sarah. Say what?!
Granted, Marshall’s intention was no doubt that the creatures were absolutely real, but it’s at least interesting to imagine that the real killer of the film was actually Sarah herself.
Watch the video below to hear the channel’s evidence…
