PATHE and STUDIOCANAL present Neil Marshall’s genuinely scary smash hit chiller The Descent – starring Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza and Alex Reid. The film makes its UK UHD debut on 29th June, with a brand new 4K restoration, in a 3-disc SteelBook, featuring commentaries, the alternate ending, a host of featurettes and a poster.
This bona fide British horror classic, written and directed by Neil Marshall (following up his werewolf film Dog Soldiers), is a nerve-shredding thrill ride featuring a group of all-female cavers encountering some very nasty beasties indeed. Shauna Macdonald (Shetland) is outstanding as a woman who goes on a caving trip to try and confront a debilitating trauma – and finds herself tested beyond endurance.
Empire calls it “brutal, bloody, terrifying, astonishing”, while none other than Jeremy Clarkson described it as “the scariest film ever made”. With nods to horror masterworks The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Thing and Alien, and able to sit proudly alongside them, The Descent features a superb cast, brilliantly creepy sets, nasty cave dwelling ‘crawlers’ to haunt your dreams, and features some of the most intense and unbearable set pieces put on film, not to mention the jump scare to end all jump scares. It’s a genuine white-knuckle horror experience, right up to the last blood-drenched frame, and now you can experience it in 4K – meaning four times the terror!
Disc 1 – UHD
Feature film in HDR Dolby Vision
Commentary with director and crew
Commentary with director and cast
Alternate Ending – U.S. Theatrical Version
Trailer gallery
Disc 2 – Blu-ray
Feature film in Blu-ray
Commentary with director and crew
Commentary with director and cast
Alternate Ending – U.S. Theatrical Version
Trailer gallery
Disc 3 – Blu-ray (Extras)
What Lies Beneath: Re-exploring The Descent
Poetic Pain: The Film Score
Masterclass with Neil Marshall at the 2026 Gérardmer International Fantastic Film Festival
The Descent: Making Of
Descending: Interview with director Neil Marshall
The Fine, Fearless & Feisty
A Special Breed of Actors & Effects
Creating an Underground World
Caving – A High-Definition Experience
Deleted and extended scenes
Outtakes
Storyboard and scene comparisons


















