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Title: The Descent: Part 2 (2009)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Michael J. Reynolds | ... | Ed Oswald | |
| Shauna Macdonald | ... | Sarah Carter (as Shauna MacDonald) | |
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Jessika Williams | ... | Susanne Small |
| Douglas Hodge | ... | Dan | |
| Josh Dallas | ... | Greg (as Joshua Dallas) | |
| Anna Skellern | ... | Cath | |
| Gavan O'Herlihy | ... | Vaines | |
| Krysten Cummings | ... | Rios | |
| Doug Ballard | ... | Dr. Roger Payne | |
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Josh Cole | ... | Lynch |
| Saskia Mulder | ... | Rebecca | |
| Natalie Mendoza | ... | Juno | |
| Alex Reid | ... | Beth | |
| Nora-Jane Noone | ... | Holly | |
| MyAnna Buring | ... | Sam | |
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. Written by ahmetkozan
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I rated these two movies 7 and 6 stars respectively, but I also own the novel of the same name by Jeff Long, published in 1999 (hardback) and 2001 (paperback). That book is so good, I went searching for a movie by that name, and sure enough there are now at least 3: the 2 "Descents," and "The Cave". All came out way after the publication of the book.
The book is, as is mostly, but not always the case, better than movies based on it. (See and read "The Green Mile" by Stephen King).
The second movie, DP2, uses the more humanoid vicious cave creatures based on the Hadal characters created by Jeff Long. I guess the movie makers thought they got away with it the first time, so why not just blatantly rip off the characters too with no credit?
Anyhoo, both Descent movies are well worth watching if you're a horror fan, but if you're also a reader please pick up Jeff Long's novel as well. Much more character development, suspense, and it is quite the page turner. Don't get started on a work night like I did!
The novel also involves enslavement of humans by the underground mutant Hadals, physical mutilation, mind manipulation; just deeply, deeply disturbing.
I took a point off DP2 for too many jump scares. I'm not a real fan of those with the exception of the one near the end of the original "Carrie" 1976 when the hand comes out of the grave when Carrie's repentant classmate is placing flowers, which to me, is quintessential. Gets me to this day!
Does anyone know why Jeff Long gets no credit? Perhaps I'm ignorant of a previous work about underground mutants victimizing humans, but when I read his work a decade or so ago, I thought it was pretty original. Sadly, the two links on the Wikipedia article about this work are dead (account disabled). I hope it is not because he cannot afford it because others have ripped him off so badly.