Neil Marshall's "The Descent" doesn't pander to mainstream genre tropes when it comes to its female characters . For starters, none of the characters portrayed by the film's all-female cast are victims of the Madonna-whore complex. Instead, they're flawed, complex beings who don't fit into problematic boxes, as their humanity (or lack thereof) is filtered through the horror of confronting something inexplicably evil. These six women aren't passive bystanders to the horror inside the caves either, as all of them take a survival-first approach, no matter how flawed it turns out to be. They bravely climb down ropes that lead deep inside ancient caverns, squeeze through dangerously narrow rock formations, and hack their way through hordes of monsters if need be.

While "The Descent" has undou

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