A skin-crawling horror film was served to the fans of horror films on 2 December 2009 titled The Descent Part 2, which was a sequel to The Descent film released on 4 August 2006. Directed by Jon Harris, the film focuses on Sarah, the sole survivor of spelunking explorations going wrong as she returns to the cave filled with monsters alongside authorities to prove the truth behind the cave as the authorities refuse to believe her story.
Produced by Christian Colson and Ivana McKinnon, the film stars Shauna Mcdonald playing the role of Sarah Carter, the sole survivor returning from the caves filled with monsters, Natalie Mendoza playing the role of Juno Kaplan, Douglas Hodge plays the role of Dan, Krysten Cummings plays the role of Elen Rios, Gavan O’ Herlihy playing the role of Sheriff Vaines as the lead cast.
The supporting cast of the film consists of Josh Dallas playing the role of Greg, Anna Skellern playing the role of Cath, Michael J. Reynolds playing the role of Ed Oswald, Dough Ballar playing the role of Dr. Roger, MyAnna Burning playing the role of Samantha, Saskia Mulder playing the role of Rebecca Vernet and Alex Reid playing the role of Elizabeth.
The film didn’t do well at the box office as it lacked a story and was filled with gore instead of a story. Viewers felt the film had potential if the direction and storyline had been better.
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The Descent Part 2: Ending Explained
The sequel of the first film, The Descent begins with a traumatized and blood-covered Sarah coming out of the cave with no memories of her past in the cave. The events occur two days after the events of the prequel of Descent 2.
Sarah is taken to the hospital for examination of injuries, and while she is under examination, the doctors discover that the blood on Sarah’s clothes is of Juno. Sheriff Vaines and three potholing experts, Dan, Greg, and Cath, go inside the cave to find out if any other woman besides Sarah survived in the cave.
The team of rescuers are sent down via an old mine shaft which is operated by an old man. After the rescue group with Sarah enter the cave and start to explore, they find Rebecca’s mutilated body first at the entrance, which leads to Sarah having flashbacks of her struggle to make it out alive of the cave. Vaines becomes suspicious of Sarah and begins to believe that she is behind the disappearance of her friends. As the group crawls through the tunnel, Sarah attacks Vaines and Greg before fleeing inside the cave.
While the team is splitting to search for Sarah, Vaines accidentally discharges his pistol after he is startled by a crawler. As a result, Cath gets separated from the group as she gets trapped under a pile of rocks. As the team tries to figure out a route and a way to rescue Cath, they come across Holl’s video camera. Soon the realization dawns upon the group that the missing women were attacked by the crawlers.
Sarah regains her memories after she hears the recordings from her hiding as a panicked Rios starts to call for help. This attracts the attention of the crawlers, and they begin to search for her. Sarah saves Rio’s life by covering her mouth, as the crawlers cannot see and hunt by hearing. The duo watches in horror as a crawler appears and kills Dan dragging his body with them.
At the same time, Juno saves Vaines after he is attacked by a crawler as she has adapted to fighting off the crawlers. Soon the four reunite, and Juno is infuriated by Sarah’s presence as she leaves her to die after she stabbed her leg.
Vaines cuffs Sarah’s hand to himself to prevent her from abandoning them as she abandons Juno. Juno takes the trio to the feeding pit, where she explains to the trio that this is the location from where the crawlers gather food from outside. Rios cuts Vaines’s arms to save Sarah after he falls over a ledge and crawlers attach to his body.
Did The Trio Survive, Or Were They Killed By The Crawlers?
The fight for survival continues as the trio reaches the exit of the cave, where they are blocked by a group of crawlers. The crawlers are led by their leader, and at the side, Greg is dying due to the bleeding from his injuries. The trio tries to sneak past the crawlers, but Greg grabs onto Juno’s leg in a last attempt to save his life.
In turn, Juno screams, thus attracting the crawlers’ attention towards herself, and the crawlers kill Greg, and the trio has to fight yet again to not die by the crawlers hand. The trio kills all the crawlers except their leader, as he has a hold on Juno. Sarah tries to save Juno but fails as the leader slashes Juno’s stomach, thus wounding her mortally.
Sarah kills the leader before Juno takes her last breath in her arms. After the leader’s death, more crawlers start to arrive. Sarah draws their attention towards herself in an attempt to save Rio. Rio escapes from the cave but is knocked unconscious by Ed as he drags her back to the cave’s entrance.
The film ends with Rios gaining consciousness to find a crawler emerging from the cave with outstretched arms. Sarah is an experienced survivor against the crawler, and after everything that Sarah went through o escape the cave alive, everyone expected her to make it out once again. Sarah’s death isn’t shown in the film’s sequel, thus giving hope to the viewers of her surviving once again. As of the movie’s end, none survived and have met the same fate as the other girls.
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