Pathe and Studiocanal have announced plans to bring Neil Marshall’s 2005 chiller The Descent to 4K UHD for the first time. The film, which stars Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza and Alex Reid, will make its UK debut in UHD on June 29, 2026 with a brand new 4K restoration, in a 3-disc SteelBook, featuring commentaries, the alternate ending, a host of featurettes and a poster.
The film is a 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!
Bonus features on the brand new release include:
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
