After what she experienced in The Descent, you’d think that poor Shauna McDonald would have most of her troubles behind her… depending on which ending you saw, at least. But no, they’re really just beginning. In The Descent Part 2, she’s forced back into spelunking the monster-infested caves to find out if any of her friends survived their horrible ordeal.
Unfortunately, we won’t be able to see it in theaters. Neil Marshall’s creepy and claustrophobic original flick did decently over here (26
million, with another 31 worldwide) but perhaps it was the Descent Part 2‘s lackluster box office in its native UK (a mere 313k first week) that doomed it over here. Regardless, it will be making its way to dvd via Lionsgate soon enough, and they’ve sent over the dvd art for you to check out. It’s pretty neat, if familiar.
Fango just got their hands on the specs, so here they are-
• Audio commentary by Harris and actresses MacDonald, Krysten Cummings and Anna Skellern
• Deleted scenes
• “The Making of THE DESCENT: PART 2: Deeper and Darker” featurette
• Storyboards
Any of you UK folks see the film? Let us know what you thought about it in the comments below.
The international ending is what made the Decent a good movie. Spoiler Warning
The ending scene of Sarah in the Cave broken and delirious is a horrifying image to bring her back and somehow coaxing her back into the cave is weak.
I know the producers of the sequel "gotta eat" but I'm happy they won't be eating steak.
I think people realized that the first one wasn't very good, so as a result, no interest in the second one. Neil Marshall is the most overrated genre director EVER.
Have to disagree with #2: The Descent was wonderfully shot by Marshall, who put every penny of his tight budget up on the screen. It was tight, eerie and graphic with gusto. Now, if you want to flame Doomsday, that's a different story…
I liked The Descent and I prefer the U.S. ending. The main chick had suffered enough and allowing her to escape made the ending emotionally satisfying for me. The final scare "ghost Juno" shot was bullshit though. I'm all for apocalyptic endings, but the U.K. ending made that paricular movie just too damn depressing. I can't believe that there'd be ANYTHING that would get her to go back to that chamber of horrors once she escaped. But I guess Ripley went back for more too.
I can't believe all the heresy here. Poorly shot? The American ending is superior? You're crazy. Philistines.
wasn't the descent supposed to make you think… was there creatures down below… or was it the main girl killing her friends, and the creatures were in her mind?
Jesus, this has to be one of the best horror movies made and holds up quite nicely if you watch it only once a year… Someone from another site had a review of it from some film festival in Germany and said after the 1st 30 Minutes of The DESCENT 2, It's quite a thrill ride and does a damn good job at recreating that claustrophobic feeling of the 1st movie and leaves it open at the end for a 3rd movie with an ending that will shick people he said, but does make sense in the grand scheme of things… Here's the link to the review of this.. The movie's better than you folks think..
http://www.worldofkj.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=53110&p=1504966#p1504966
The Descent is probably one of the best horror movies of the past 5 years. I kicks ass. Marshall did a great job with it as well as Dog Soldiers. #2 Lame, you certainly are.
Marshall shit the bed with Doomsday but The Descent was good gorey fun and Dog Soldiers was a pretty scrappy and resourceful little indie flick. Plus Centurion looks pretty awesome.
The Descent is one of the scariest films I've seen, particularly in the theater. Watching on a small screen just won't do it justice. As far as endings go, I also thought the American ending superior–the whole hallucination bit of her still being in the cave is just absurd. Plus, the ghost jump scare at the end carries weight–signifying that she'll never actually escape the traumas that led her to that moment…
She went back down again with just a pickaxe? Knowing the horrors that lie within she didn't pack one fucking GUN? Huh.
The American ending sucked ass. The Descent was aptly shot and lit, yadda yadda, but the characters SUCKED. All the sudden, after being scared shitless, this girl is perfectly capable of close combat with several creatures in the dark. Riiiiiiiight. The ending where she's trapped (UK) and out of her mind was incredible though.
"Comment #2 (Posted by Lame)
I think people realized that the first one wasn't very good, so as a result, no interest in the second one. Neil Marshall is the most overrated genre director EVER."
Yah, I'm pretty sure that's not the case. Why don't you stop confusing your opinions with truth and next time you feel like posting don't act like an asshole.
I refuse to give either of these movies any credibility, as they are both blatant rip-offs of the Jeff Long books…
I'm from the UK and honestly I didn't even know that Part 2 had come out. That might go some way to explaining the lackluster box office.
I waited for the first Descent to come out on DVD so that I could see the complete original British ending. I took it that Sarah was doomed and stuck in that cave and you could hear the creatures converging on her at the end. So I'm to take it that she somehow makes it out fine in the sequel? That completely negates the ending of the 1st movie IMO. And it sounds like they're going more by the American ending which lopped off the last 2 minutes of the original ending to make it more "upbeat". I could really care less about this sequel but I'll check it out at some point on netflix or something.