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As a follow-up to The Descent, Neil (Doomsday) Marshall's unsettling and underrated subterranean horror film, The Descent: Part 2 delivers part, if not all of what made the first film one of the standout genre pictures of the last few years. Shauna Macdonald returns as the sole survivor of an expedition that turned fatal after its team of all-female spelunkers encountered a race of monsters in a remote Appalachian cave; unable to prove her story, she's sent by the local authorities back into the cavern with a team of experts, with predictably bloody results. Unfortunately, blood is apparently the sole focus of director Jon Harris, who edited the original Descent (as well as Kick-Ass); what's missing are Marshall's strong characters, which made their demise all the more meaningful and harrowing, and his emphasis on suspense over special effects (Marshall is credited as executive producer on Descent 2). Those wishing to see more of the "crawlers," the blind, humanoid antagonists in both films, will get plenty of views here, but bringing them into the light, as it were, doesn't make them more frightening. Instead, viewers become more aware of their artifice, which also goes for their suspiciously papier-mâché-like environs. The widescreen DVD includes some interesting extras that illustrate the producers' intentions with the film; Harris, Macdonald, and two of the newer cast members provide a lively commentary, while a 25-minute making-of featurette gives glimpses of the film's production design. A battery of deleted scenes offer character nuances that might have benefited the film had they been left in, and a storyboard gallery is an improvement over the murky sets. --Paul Gaita
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5.0 out of 5 stars
It's skin crawlingly good..,
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This review is from: The Descent 2 (DVD)
I am going to keep this short and sweet, its the follow up to Descent, its a bit different then the first, which I highly recommmend, it goes further into the story of what happened and I liked it all, it was great to see the world of the crawlers in more depth, it was wonderful to see that in the new cast, they kept the strong female leads.Only one real weak spot in this one that the first didn't have.. Just pretend that the last three min of the film does not happen, it does not make sense at all..but the first time you see it, you will do the what the ? Its a well done horror movie, and I love that the monster's can be killed (in creative ways) as easily as a regular human could be.. it makes it feel more real that they are not "superhero" killers but raither a twisted version of us.
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