The Descent Part 2
If you ’ve been readingScreen Rantfor any amount of time , you ’re believably cognisant that I ’m a HUGE fan of Neil Marshall ’s modern repugnance masterpiece , The Descent , from back in 2005 ( although for some reason it did n’t hit U.S. theaters until Fall 2006 ) . To me , it was the most effective repugnance motion picture I ’d seen in years , and my personal favorite sinceThe Shining(it featured at figure 1 on my list of the"Top 5 Movies That Scared the underworld Out of Me " ) .
It was also a plastic film that I feel roll itself up very well , and in no way need a sequel . But of track whenever a low - budget revulsion such as it is successful , either critically or financially , you just know they ’re going to go the subsequence path . uncalled-for to say , I was more than a little annoyed at the news ofThe Descent : Part 2being made , particularly because Marshall , the first film ’s writer and theatre director , was n’t coming back to execute the same duties for the second one , only attaching himself to the task on the executive producer tier ( which we all get it on is just to get the photographic film observe more / give it more credibility ) .
Picking up literally mightily after Marshall go out off is the first film ’s editor , Jon Harris , have his directorial launching . The results unluckily are right smart below the level of the first film and it ’s immediately obvious this is n’t a seasoned director behind the camera . The film is often bungling , particularly when the action - which there is a fair amount of equate to the first - is materialize on - screen . There ’s two major elements that the first one had that are nowhere to be reckon in this one , but I ’ll get to those before long .
( Warning : There will be spoilers in terms of what happened in the first Descent , and also possible mild spoilers for this subsequence )
foremost , let ’s get the plot out of the way : As I say , Harris cull up right where Marshall allow for us all in the last one , with the one remain fellow member of the cave diving group , Sarah , having lam the seemingly endless cave ( we ’ll get to how that may or may not make sensory faculty , calculate on what interpretation you understand ) . She is manifestly delirious and is picked up by constabulary and sent to infirmary .
Unfortunately for Sarah , everyone else out of doors of the caves only have the data to go on that six women went down into the cave but only one came out , and needless to say Sarah becomes a defendant to the local jurisprudence enforcement . They at last add up to the determination that they need to go down to the caves to see for the residual of her company of women , hire Sarah with them as both their " guide " and to keep an eye on her as a defendant . So why does Sarah accord to go back down there , where she faced hell just hours antecedently ? Well , sheobviouslyloses her memory of everything that happened ( typical … ) and so does n’t turn down as you ’d logically anticipate .
So with the help of a local man who discovered Sarah panic on the side of the road , there ’s as if by magic another elbow room down to the caves other than where the group of women first entered - a ray that leads down to some mine that are directly adjacent to the cave . With a new team , including an extra - suspicious police sheriff , Sarah must live over the nightmare she and her acquaintance experience .
The first of the two elements that help oneself makeThe Descentso great was the claustrophobic intuitive feeling of the cave background . For more than one-half of the first film we do n’t even encounter any of the monsters that the flick ends up chevy with , but rather are forced to sit through almost unbearable concern of the swarthiness and the close proximity of the caves around the cleaning woman . The miserly spaces and eternal darkness creep the nether region out of me the first time around , but the newfangled manager here just is n’t capable to capture the same variety of dread without resorting to stock and gore .
address of which , there are bucket loads of more blood this prison term around . Do n’t get me incorrect , passel was spilled in a host of nasty ways in the first , but for some odd reason it felt … justified . Here , a fortune of the prison term it ’s just complimentary and bloodily vehement for no reason than just to have it in there . Harris ' inexperience as a conductor ( although he ’s plenty receive as an editor ) really shows during the scene of attack from the Crawlers ( as the devil / tool are do it ) when the camera is shaky . The film then falls back on hack out at a skull or subdivision ( take your pick from all torso part ) in an attempt to get scare . It , at least for me , seldom puzzle out as intended .
The Descent: Part 2 is the follow-up to 2005’s horror thriller. In the sequel, Sarah Carter (Shauna Macdonald) goes spelunking again to follow authorities back to where she was attacked by terrifying cave-dwelling creatures. While theatrically released in the UK, The Descent 2 got a straight-to-DVD in the US in 2010.
That ’s not to say there is n’t some authentically effective panic to be discover here : there were about 3 or 4 times where I legitimately jumped in my seat , mostly down to one of the fiend come out out of nowhere , companion by a meretricious piece of music . A quite a little of the time it ’s obvious when the jumps are come , but there were a few times when it cultivate quite well .
The 2nd element of the first pic that is squandered here is the more world-wide fact that it was an all distaff cast , something that you do n’t often see in picture show these twenty-four hour period , peculiarly horror . However , here they add at least a couple of bozo to the sheep pen , and although they ’re just as " ripe for the picking " as a couple of the other new distaff characters , I felt it take away a raft , if notall , of the magic of the whole thing in terms of the character dynamics .
To quick get to whether or not the continuing of the story progress to sense or not - that will depend all on what rendering you saw . In the UK , the first film ended with Sarah catch out of the cave only for that to be unwrap to be a dream and she ’s in fact still down there , getting circumvent by the Crawlers . But the sequel chooses to COMPLETELY dismiss that ( not even a acknowledgment or hint anywhere as far as I could see ) and go with the U.S. ending that she did escape in the end . Of naturally , it was necessary to do that in rules of order to continue the dealership but for someone who meet the UK ending , it ’s just perplexing .
Lastly , I just want to mention the close of the plastic film : Of naturally , I ’m not going to give anything away , but suffice it to say that I found the ending to be ridiculous , nonsensical , annoyingly equivocal ( read : get quick forThe Decent : Part 3 ) and that it took away from the overall story of both movies . You may have a different reaction should you take to see it , but for me it really did n’t work .
OverallThe Descent : Part 2is a major step down from the first motion-picture show in almost every area , from the amount of scares ( a whole truck load in the first to just a fistful here ) to the effectiveness of the gore and even down to such thing as the talks ( which is sometimes heart - rollingly cheesy ) and the predictable character ( funny sheriff , naive young policeman , eager adventurer and so on ) . If you wish the first one you ’ll perhaps get a kick out of seeing the Crawlers doing more of their vicious attacking but generally I ’d say skip this one and just go hire the original .
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The Descent : Part 2 is the fall out - up to 2005 ’s horror thriller . In the sequel , Sarah Carter ( Shauna Macdonald ) goes spelunking again to follow authorities back to where she was attacked by terrify cave - dwelling creatures . While theatrically released in the UK , The Descent 2 make a straight - to - videodisk in the US in 2010 .
