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More Returnees for The Descent 2

By Nix | May 1, 2008 (1:07 am) | More: Horror Movie News, The Descent 2 (2009) Movie

I haven’t seen Neil Marshall’s “The Descent”, even though I’ve always meant to. I actually have the DVD on my shelf, but everytime I think I should watch it, another, more recent movie always interrupts. Oh well. In any case, from people whose opinion I respect, the first “Descent” was apparently a rollicking bloody good time, and the sequel, minus Marshall behind the camera (he’s apparently “producing”, which could mean he’s there everyday, or never there for a single day), couldn’t possibly be as good, could it?

In any case, Bloody-Disgusting reports that both Shauna MacDonald and Natalie Jackson Mendoza, who plays Sarah and Juno in the original, respectively, will be returning for the sequel.

Picking up from where the last movie left off, Sarah (Shauna Macdonald) escapes the cave and seeks refuge at a local gas station, where she collapses and is rushed to a local hospital. Not being able to speak because of the horrific events that have mentally scarred her, a search and rescue team take Sarah back to where the horrible events happened to find any possible answers and survivors. However, whilst down in the cave…things don’t go to plan as the group fight for their lives against the crawlers and find an unexpected survivor from the last film.

Good? Bad? You decide.

Update

The Hollywood Reporter adds Gavan O’Herlihy, Joshua Dallas, Anna Skellern, Douglas Hodge and Krysten Cummings to the cast. The script is by James Watkins and the budget is $10 million.

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AltredEgo on May 1, 2008

I saw the Descent. I liked the movie quite a bit.
When I heard about the sequel, I was like “really?” For those who’ve seen it, I think there is definitely a sense that the story had reached a memorable and semi-definitive conclusion.

Why would she go back? She **knows** there are no survivors. Did she forget her car keys?

I think it’s telling that Neil Marshall **passed** on returning to helm this “sequel” Cough*cashgrab*cough!

Of course he went on to do Doomsday, which I thought looked horrible.
So who knows?

But that’s just me.
AE.

 
Dustin on May 1, 2008
 
ColdNorway on May 2, 2008 Subscribed to comments via email

Descent 2:Let`s give it another go!

Neil Marshall knows that the only way Sarah will ever find her self back at the cave is if:

a)She has been lobotomiced to calm her down,but the survergy has left her almost brain dead,so she is can`t help the rescue team even after all the hard work of carrying her to the cave,but man is she calm.

b)She has been sedated to calm her down,but the drugs are so strong that they prevent her from comunicating with the outside world,if the drungs wear off she will be hysterical knowing where they are taking her,and they are forced to sedate her again.Ergo she can`t ever help the rescue team.

c)She is dead,and the rescue team use her body as bait to lure the crawlers to the cave opening,in an atempt of killing off every one of those sorry creatures.Then they go down the cave without any danger.

d)The rescue team are actually the half bread of the crawlers ,in an atempt of minimizing the risk of crawler expociur to the outside world,they take pasients from the hospital as food to the crawlers.They no longer have to hunt in the open,ahh how nice of them.Sarah is sedated the whole way from the hospital to the time she dies being late night snack for the crawlers.

Any other good ideas folks?

 
ColdNorway on May 2, 2008 Subscribed to comments via email

Sorry guys my mistake,I sent in the old first draft with many spelling flaws.Typed in a hurry.

 
AltredEgo on May 7, 2008

I think the “sedation” idea is really the best. The only problem if she’s so sedated that she can’t communicate, then what good is she to the would-be-rescuers? Why would you take an incapacitated person into an uncharted underground cave system, that you *know* has killed experienced climbers.

This is stupid. There is just no way around it.

They should have done a straight up redo with new girls and then blow our minds when they re-introduce the chick who we thought had been killed in part 1, but is now breeding with the creatures to produce a new race of creatures.

Still stupid, but less so.

AE.

 
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