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The Descent: Part 2

Cert: 18

Description: Cops discover bloodied and disoriented Sarah, one of the cavers declared lost in the mountains. Sheriff Vaines quickly decides that Sarah murdered her friends, hence all the spatter on her clothes. He employs kind deputy Rios to interrogate Sarah and when she refuses to break, the sheriff foolishly demands they all venture back underground to jog her memory in the company of experienced rescue volunteers Dan, Cath and Greg.

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Dir: Jon Harris.

Cast: Natalie Mendoza, Krysten Cummings, Shauna MacDonald, Douglas Hodge, Anna Skellern, Joshua Dallas, Gavan O'Herlihy

Country: UK.

Year: 2009.

Duration: 93mins

Silliness can't be drowned out by screams in The Descent

The Decent: Part II is watchable but silly

By Derek Malcolm
4 Dec 2009

Part one, if you remember, had six women facing peril down a deep cave, and was considered one of the best horrors of 2005.

This sequel, directed by Jon Harris rather than Neil Marshall, has the last survivor coming up for air and sedated in hospital before being illogically hauled out of bed to lead another expedition down the shaft.

Competent film-making renders the film watchable but it's silly in essence and there's nothing the cast can do about that, however hard they scream.