Distribution and Promotion

The descent was initially released in July 2005 in the UK, and the film was shown twice at festivals but at the time wasn’t officially released. The descent in the opening weekend was shown on more than 300 screens in the UK, and on the same weekend overall, it made £570,000 in the same weekend. Other than going to the pictures, and watching it on the opening weekend, these were the times when illegally watching films online, and downloading it first came around, and it saved 100’s of people money instead of going to the pictures. In 2005, download speeds wasn’t as they are nowadays. Most people even had to pay a lot of money just to download on the Internet, which is completely free now. Websites such as ThePirateBay allow you to download films completely free, and other illegal websites such as Ioshunt, and other torrent sites enable this. Legal ways like Netflix, and even YouTube allow you to watch films legally, but in 2005, the first person uploaded on YouTube, and was a website made from nothing, and Netflix didn’t even exist.

Cost

The average prices for films in cineworld could range around £5.00-£10.00, depending on what you watch. The prices of adults, and kids are very different, as kids tickets cost around £5.00, and adults tickets round up to £6.00. However, this changes after 5pm, as tickets would round up till around £8.00.

DVD’s, and Blu-Ray have dropped the prices for the descent very recently, as the film only costs £3.82. When the film was just released, it was around £10.00.

The descent is on Netflix, which is an online streaming service. Netflix only costs £5.99 a month. On the other hand, The Descent 2 on Amazon is £8.99.

Online piracy is another source for watching films, as torrent sites such as ThePirateBay is known to be the biggest torrent site out there. Torrents are completely free, and only take up to a few minutes to actually download. This is where most people illegally download films, and other things.

PlaceThe best place to watch The Descent would online via torrents, as you wouldn’t have to pay a thing. Nearly every film out there is on the Internet, and the best torrent site for this is ThePirateBay. This why it’s illegal, because you can even watch new films that have just recently come out online. You can even watch films, which have been released in a different country, and not your own on the Internet, and download it. Many different horror channels such as Sky Sci-Fi/Horror Movie Channel would show The Descent, as the genre is horror, and it came out 10 years ago. This is a very good opportunity to watch the movie, because it’s completely free. The only benefits of watching the film at the cinema at the time, is that you had the best view, and equipment when watching the film. The only problem is that you’d have to spend quite a lot of money to watch the film.