Sarah Carter (Shauna Macdonald) is found on the highway bloodied and with no memory of what happened in her descent into the caverns two days ago. She is taken to Hyett County Hospital. Sheriff Vaines (Gavan O'Herlihy), who is supervising a team of experienced rescue workers searching Boreham Caverns looking for the girls, is informed of her rescue. Because Sarah is covered with blood but has only suffered minor cuts and bruises, the blood on her is compared to that of the other five girls who were spelunking with her. Some of the blood found on Sarah matches that of Juno Kaplan (Natalie Mendoza), who just happens to be the niece of a senator. Using dogs, an entrance to the caverns is discovered through the old Chapel Mine, which leads to the uncharted cave system where the girls were lost. Sarah is then forced to accompany the rescue team in an attempt to find her missing friends, encountering more of the bloodthirsty humanoid creatures along the way.
The Descent: Part 2 is a sequel to The Descent (2005) (2005), which was an original screenplay written and directed by English film-maker Neil Marshall. The Descent: Part 2 was written by James Watkins, J. Blakeson, and James McCarthy.
The Descent: Part 2 picks up just hours after the first movie following the unrated (UK) version. After Sarah crawls out of a hole in the cave ceiling after climbing up a pile of bones, she makes it back to where she and her spelunking friends parked their cars and drives away, only to awaken in the cave to find that her 'escape' was merely a dream. The Descent: Part 2 picks up shortly after, where Sarah claims to have been washed out by a water system.
Actually, this movie is a sequel to the U.S. release, NOT the U.K. one. As is pointed out several times in the IMDB FAQ, the U.K. release ends with Sarah's death at the hands of the cave dwellers, while the U.S. release ends with her lone escape from the caves.
It's not a prerequisite for understanding or appreciation, but it is strongly recommended. The Descent: Part 2 does not provide much information about the fates of the six women who went into the cavern in The Descent. In order to fully comprehend the events that led up to Sarah being found bloodied and traumatized on the highway and to the relationship between Sarah and Juno, it's best to watch The Descent before watching its sequel. One thing The Descent: Part 2 does maintain from the first movie is the feeling of claustrophobia the viewer feels when watching the film.
Six. The experienced rescue team consists of three members: Dan (Douglas Hodge), Greg (Josh Dallas), and Cath (Anna Skellern). Sheriff Vaines and his deputy Jenna Rios (Krysten Cummings) escort Sarah into the caves, expecting her to help find her friends.
The humanoid creatures, referred to as "Crawlers" in the credits, are, according to Neil Marshall, director of The Descent, "cave men that never left the cave; they evolved over thousands of years, living down there in families. They've lost their eyesight; they have better hearing; and they function perfectly in the pitch black."
However, the Crawlers do come to the surface to hunt animals such as wolves, deer, etc and carry their carcasses back into the caves for food.
It's an inconsistency between the two films. In The Descent, Sarah gets out of the cave by climbing up a pile of bones to a hole on the side of a mountain. However, in the DVD commentary, director Jon Harris revealed that the original script for The Descent: Part 2 was supposed to open with Sarah being in the cave and seeing her daughter off an abyss. Her daughter jumps, and Sarah follows after her. Then she would be washed up in a lake. Thus, when the dog was smelling Sarah's scent, he stopped at the end of that lake.
This is not revealed, but several theories have been offered. (1) He does not want the locations of the cave entrances revealed to outsiders lest they start swarming the area with sightseers and spelunkers who may then become prey to the crawlers, (2) he knows about the crawlers and feeds them either to protect them or to stop them from feeding on locals, or (3) he is a sociopath and killed Rios because he likes to kill people. Perhaps he's done this many times before. Dumping the bodies at the mouth of the cave, where he knows they'll be eaten, could be part of his enjoyment. (4) He is using her as bait to trap a Crawler. Also, evidence supporting (2) and (3) is lacking, since he readily aided Sarah when he picked her up on the road and assisted the officials when they tried to figure out where she came from.
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- How long is The Descent: Part 2?1 hour and 34 minutes
- When was The Descent: Part 2 released?April 27, 2010
- What is the IMDb rating of The Descent: Part 2?5.7 out of 10
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- Who was the editor of The Descent: Part 2?
- Who are the characters in The Descent: Part 2?Ed Oswald, Sarah, Dan, Greg, Cath, Vaines, Rios, Lynch, Rebecca, Juno, and others
- What is the plot of The Descent: Part 2?Refusing to believe her story about cave-dwelling monsters, the sole survivor of a spelunking exploration gone horribly wrong is forced to follow the authorities back into the caves where something awaits.
- What was the budget for The Descent: Part 2?6.2 million
- How much did The Descent: Part 2 earn at the worldwide box office?$7.05 million
- What is The Descent: Part 2 rated?R
- What genre is The Descent: Part 2?Adventure, Horror, and Thriller
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