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Trailers | February 25, 2009 | Comments (24)

Have you seen The Descent? It was tight. It was terrifying. And it was awesome. It’s easily in this decade’s top five horror films. Unlike the regurgitated remakes, the diluted sequels, and the torture porn that’s dominated this decade, The Descent actually had something called “suspense,” (look it up, Eli). It will also scare the holy unfuck out of you.

Of course, seeing as how it was a good movie (even one that wasn’t particularly commercially successful), a sequel was inevitable. Neil Marshall, who wrote and directed the original, did not return, but he is producing, which means he gets to collect a paycheck for attaching his name to an inferior sequel. It comes from Jon Harris, who edited The Descent, and a trio of writers with little to speak of on their resume. And, if that weren’t enough to dampen your enthusiasm, here’s the trailer. It looks like the lone survivor of the first film (whose survival was ambiguous, at best) has gone crazy. She’s nevertheless asked to go with a crew of folks back down into the cave to find the bodies of the six missing women from the first movie. Bad things happen.

Enjoy!


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Comments

I don't think I will be seeing this movie unless I catch it on one of those free cable movie channels about 3-4 years from now.

1) There were no surivors. She was crazy, she was still in the cave, she was killed.

2) Even if, for the sake of argument, we say she did make it out. Why on earth would anyone want to take her back? She's bat shit insane. She wasn't the most expert climbing/spelunker of the group.

None of this makes sense.

If they wanted to do a sequel, which is a bad idea pretty much all around, they could have either had her been killed, or, if alive, have her make a brief cameo and then move on with a different group.

She's not Ripley.

Besides, as much as I loved the movie, the best parts/scariest parts were really before the albino bat people made their appearance. I don't think they will be able to really effectively re-create that.

Posted by: Forbiddendonut at February 25, 2009 9:57 AM

Looks spine tingly-dingly.

No it doesn't. It looks boring and predictable.

Posted by: admin at February 25, 2009 9:58 AM

Now Dustin, I find it in poor form that you'd pick on poor ol' Bobby "The NBC Page" Jindal by including a picture of him with an article on The Descent 2.

Posted by: Mike R. at February 25, 2009 10:01 AM

I just read the title for this piece and it made me laugh so hard!!
I really love puns and that just made my day. Thanks.

Posted by: Wormer at February 25, 2009 10:10 AM

I love you Mike, you just made my day!

Seriously though...this movie is warmed over bullshit. She's dead. There is no movie, only Zuul.

Posted by: Smokin at February 25, 2009 10:13 AM

So they're doing kind of an Alien thing? Because you would NEVER EVER EVER go back.

I hope it's good, the trailer isn't bad. That bit at around the 2 minute mark with the creature in the camera? That's where I pulled a muscle in my neck during the first film. Hurt like a mo fo.

And Juno?! I actually loved Juno in that film, even though it was all her fault.

Posted by: Puddy at February 25, 2009 10:16 AM

Mike R. That's a howl. Did anyone else think Jindal was channeling Mr. Rogers last night? I felt very patronized by his tone of delivery.

The Descent really scared the shit out of me, and that's not easy to do. I have similar problems as Forbiddenout since I also thought she was still in the cave at the end and imagining the jeep part. Those albino cave men are friggin' eerie. I already have an unrealistic fear of being stuck in an underground cave unable to move forward or backwards and putting albino imp men on top of that fear just reinforced everything I ever thought about spelunking.

Posted by: PaddyDog at February 25, 2009 10:30 AM

I want this movie to be good, and I know I'll end up seeing it. But I'm not very optimistic, even with Neil Marshall attached to it (as producer, I know). Prediction: Juno's been used as breeding stock, and there's nothing that Paulie Bleeker can do about it.

PS: I actually like the original's US ending better than the British ending. The thought that she actually escaped but is now mentally broken is so much bleaker than the idea that she didn't escape, but is comforted by the hallucination of her daughter in the moments leading up to her death. In keeping with the rest of the movie, I like her US fate batter.

Posted by: David at February 25, 2009 10:30 AM

Dude, she's dead. Either she's dead, or they adopted her to become their undead leader. Either way, this movie doesn't exist for me. Doesn't mean I won't see it, likely I will, but then it will re-cease to exist.

Posted by: Captain Steve at February 25, 2009 10:33 AM

Notice the wonderfully convenient "I was so traumatized that I forgot what happened, but I'll slowly have more flashbacks as my meds wear off." Otherwise there wouldn't be enough languages on Earth to tell them the many ways to go fuck themselves if they told her to go back.

Posted by: branded at February 25, 2009 10:41 AM

I couldn't be tricked into watching the first one (horror's not my thing) and you can't trick me into watching this trailer. See, I'm smarter than the average bear.

Posted by: tamatha at February 25, 2009 10:58 AM

Amateur.


REAL connoisseurs take lemons to orgasm from behind...

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at February 25, 2009 11:09 AM

All I really remember from this movie, other than the vaginal-birth imagery from the end, is the scene where the one chick first spots the monster kind of across the underground lake. The thing is clearly some kind of albino mutant and it's making this "Hisssss-kah-kah-kah-kah-kah!!!!" noise and she goes, "Hey! Can you help us!?" Because the first thing I'd think after encountering an albino mutant making animalistic death noises in a cave I know to be unexplored is, "Thank god! Someone who can help us!"

Posted by: Lindsay at February 25, 2009 11:16 AM

Just goes to show you can't trust an albino...

Posted by: Skitz at February 25, 2009 11:22 AM

Fuck That. If I'm spelunking and I See ONE Albino Freak I'm just going to kill myself. Sorry, rest of the group. I would not think twice about taking the coward's way out. Not twice. Fuck that shit with a rusty carabiner. The first one fucked me up royally.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at February 25, 2009 11:38 AM

I loved the descent, I watched it with my sister and we got so scared we had to sleep in the same bed that night. I've vowed that I will never go spelunking ever

Posted by: Person at February 25, 2009 1:01 PM

I'll probably end up seeing this just to appease my girlfriend, who will INSIST upon it. I liked the first one, maybe this one won't be so bad. Whatever, I like popcorn.

Posted by: Sharon at February 25, 2009 1:32 PM

Wait...I can't tell if Dustin is serious. Maybe it's the lack of sleep or the weight of my sinuses on the bridge of my nose but...is he serious when he says The Descent was a good movie? I didn't see it but...what?

Posted by: figgy at February 25, 2009 1:40 PM

If I'm spelunking and I See ONE Albino Freak I'm just going to kill myself.

Rhyme, if you don't want to bang Nicole Kidman just come out and say it.

Posted by: admin at February 25, 2009 1:48 PM

How is that even a plausible plotline? I'm not sure that there's anything in the world that would make me go down into some nightmare I had literally JUST escaped from. Blow my damn brains out or send me to jail to be repeatedly assraped with a plunger for the rest of my life, but I would never go back there.

Posted by: Jaci at February 25, 2009 2:24 PM

So there WERE two different endings to the first one?! I knew I wasn't imagining that! Anyway, it looks like they are screwing this up the same way they did 28 Weeks Later. Bringing in a larger crew of "experts" to take care of things and relying on night vision scenes for added scariness. At least in 28WL they used an all new cast. No one is going to believe that poor crazy girl would have ever gone back! She already lost her whole family before the first movie began! Let her die, for goodness sake!

Posted by: Mistress Violet at February 25, 2009 9:02 PM

Soo... they took one of the few movies to have an all-female badass (as opposed to annoying as hell) cast, that was genuinely terrifying and added a bunch of men (including one with an obligatory British ? accent), and every horror movie cliche.

LAME.

Posted by: Michelle at February 25, 2009 9:52 PM

too many men, which is crazy for me to say. takes away from the dyke-y closeness of the 1st.

Posted by: guiltypartner at February 25, 2009 10:50 PM

with monsters like that, how could you go wrong? the first one scared the shit out of me..... this one will do the same.

Posted by: gabby at April 12, 2009 9:20 PM