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The Descent: Part 2 (2009) -- Distraught, confused, and half-wild with fear, Sarah Carter emerges alone from the Appalachian cave system where she encountered unspeakable terrors. Unable to plausibly explain to the authorities what happened - or why she's covered in her friends' blood - Sarah is forced back to the subterranean depths to help locate her five missing companions. As the rescue party drives deeper into uncharted caverns, nightmarish visions of the recent past begin to haunt Sarah and she starts to realize the full horror and futility of the mission. Subjected to the suspicion and mistrust of the group and confronted once more by the inbred, feral and savagely ruthless Crawlers, Sarah must draw on all her inner reserves of strength and courage in a desperate final struggle for deliverance and redemption.
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The Descent: Part 2 (2009) -- Distraught, confused, and half-wild with fear, Sarah Carter emerges alone from the Appalachian cave system where she encountered unspeakable terrors. Unable to plausibly explain to the authorities what happened - or why she's covered in her friends' blood - Sarah is forced back to the subterranean depths to help locate her five missing companions. As the rescue party drives deeper into uncharted caverns, nightmarish visions of the recent past begin to haunt Sarah and she starts to realize the full horror and futility of the mission. Subjected to the suspicion and mistrust of the group and confronted once more by the inbred, feral and savagely ruthless Crawlers, Sarah must draw on all her inner reserves of strength and courage in a desperate final struggle for deliverance and redemption.
The Descent: Part 2 (2009) -- Trailer for this follow up to the monster movie
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J Blakeson (writer)
James McCarthy (writer)
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Release Date:
2010 (USA) more
Tagline:
Fear runs deeper more
Plot:
Distraught, confused, and half-wild with fear, Sarah Carter emerges alone from the Appalachian cave system where she encountered unspeakable terrors... more | full synopsis
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'The Descent: Part 2' Soundtrack News
 (From FEARnet. 14 December 2009, 10:30 AM, PST)

The Descent: Part 2 Review
 (From Screen Rant. 11 December 2009, 7:07 PM, PST)

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Cast

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Shauna Macdonald ... Sarah
Natalie Jackson Mendoza ... Juno
Krysten Cummings ... Rios
Gavan O'Herlihy ... Vaines

Joshua Dallas ... Greg

Anna Skellern ... Cath
Douglas Hodge ... Dan
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Doug Ballard ... Doctor Payne
Robin Berry ... Merrick Crawler

MyAnna Buring ... Sam

Axelle Carolyn ... Nurse Lambert
Josh Cole ... Lynch
Seamus Maynard ... Beanie Hat Caver
Mac McDonald ... Mayor Riley
Saskia Mulder ... Rebecca
Nora-Jane Noone ... Holly
Alex Reid ... Beth

Michael J. Reynolds ... Ed Oswald
Ian Rowland
Jessika Williams ... Reporter
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Also Known As:
The De2cent (UK) (working title)
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Runtime:
94 min
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Continuity: Dirt on Sarah's face (her right side, mouth/cheek area) comes and goes between shots as she is sitting and talking to the rescue team underground. more
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Doctor Payne: Blood found on Sarah Carter's clothes: A positive. Blood type for Juno Caplan: A positive. more
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Follows The Descent (2005) more

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2 out of 10 people found the following review useful.
More atmosphere in space?, 4 December 2009
3/10
Author: Cinema_Fan from An English Shire.

The Descent: Part 2 has delivered us from evil with rather obvious outcomes that can be seen coming from fathoms deep. It is the continuation of Neil Marshall's claustrophobic, tight hunt and stalk fest, but with Jon Harris's potholing adventure, there just seems to be too much guided light in the narrative. If there were a plot, it was buried with, too, the lack of any meaningful purpose. It is just a rescue party getting deeper into the mire in the land of the anaemic crawlers and with no character depth and only a taint of direction to head for, it really does stumble along and all too easily, it falls too much down the slippery slope of predictability. This in turn takes away any meaning of suspense and then proceeds to cancel any true meaning of horror. It may be frightening but it just is not horrific in both the physical and the mental state. This is without doubt more descending than ascending in all aspects style, content and direction.

As there should be in any self-respecting horror film, the heart stoppers and jump-scares are adequate to enhance the mood and to remind you just exactly where we are, and the crawlers are, as ever, a visual treat to this genre. However, it falls in on itself with the lack of any connection between the players, and their viewers', too. It is all very soap opera in the sense that no matter where you join the show, you can instantly watch the show from where you start and there is no concern for what you may have missed previously.

This is too highlighted in the fact that there are no opening credits, apart from its title it's straight into the thick of things and this does make it feel rather pushed and not at all like a film but a ninety-four minute let's-get-on-with-it-while-we-are-here, again, what development can be addressed in only ninety-four minutes? Like our white skinned wrinklies, The Descent: Part 2 is not the living experience one would hope but its only purpose is to exist. Nothing more. Nothing less.

This is where I am saddened by this whole experience; I would very much like this to have been the fright fest I would had wished for, but I am afraid that Jon Harris's (editor for Eden Lake (2008), The Calcium Kid (2004) and Snatch. (2000)) experience as editor on the The Descent (2005) may not have rubbed-off onto his directorial debut here. With belief suspended, the narrative can still beg too many questions and because of this becomes too distracting for its part here, as it is too stifled for any dexterity to emerge in as much a style of somewhat lazy writing in what can seem all too hollow a journey in this claustrophobic, ghoulish nightmare.

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