Welsh Film Festival To Screen Underground Horror The Descent In A Mine

Earlier this year, audiences in Austin, Texas got to see ‘Jaws’ in a particularly immersive and memorable way, whilst floating in tyres on a pool - and this autumn, another horror classic can be experienced in a similarly three-dimensional manner.

Abertoir, Wales’ national horror festival based in Aberystwyth, have announced plans to screen 2005 British horror ‘The Descent’ - the tale of a caving expedition that turns into a living nightmare - in a disused silver mine.

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The festival are teaming up with Aberystwyth’s Silver Mountain Experience to take the audience into the mouth of the mine for a one-off screening of director Neil Marshall’s esteemed genre hit.

Noted for its almost-exclusively female cast, ‘The Descent’ follows six adventure-loving friends who descend into narrow, uncharted caves beneath the Appalachian mountains - but after a series of accidents, they discover that something else is underground with them.

The intensely claustrophobic, graphically gory film established Neil Marshall as a key horror director of the 2000s - part of the unofficial team dubbed ‘the Splat Pack’ by journalist/FrightFest organiser Alan Jones.

It also spawned a sequel in 2009′s ‘The Descent Part 2.’

The event marks both the tenth anniversary of Marshall’s film, and the tenth consecutive Abertoir festival. Tickets for the event go on sale next Wednesday; visit the Abertoir website to learn more.

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