looks good. can't wait

I havnt actually seen the 1st one. I better see it before this one comes out.

Jon Harris? We'll have to wait and see if he screws up.

Anyone who thinks this looks good or liked the first decent is on crack.
the whole posturing hardcore/EXTREME women thing was so offensive I think I had the volume muted after a while. They should have showed the creatures less. the whole time I was thinking "Look they are gonna come out in Moria"

The Descent, in my opinion, was a mediocre movie, with completely unlikeable characters and resort to the dumbest "fright" tricks in the books, including unexpected loud noises. But, that's what passes for scary films today.

Not happy with there being a sequel as she didnt get out in my mind (british verson) was a much more appropreate ending.. but i'll check it out anyways cause its the director of 2008's EDEN LAKE which was a horror i loved... I recommend you check it out...

The idea is good but the creatures look like Dust Til Dawn.

Didnt seer the first! probbably will skip this one to unless i give the first one some time...which is unlikely

Although I'm also a big fan of The Descent, this comment had me in stitches: "the descent was only scary of you're afraid of gollem and/or modern dance troupes."

I preferred the unhappy ending, but I can't say I won't see this out of pure curiosity.

I hated the first movie, but I agree with Mr. Baby Man. They should have kept it all in her mind. They see how popular a movie is and want to do a sequel. Newsflash: Sequels are not ALWAYS needed.

I thought the first Descent was ok initially. Tough chicks duking it out with some pretty cheap looking, but still kinda scary lookin' creatures. But after watching it more, it lost some of it's fizzle. Not sure a sequel is necessary, especially after reading the synopsis.

I must be on crack, because I love (and own) The Descent and Dog Soldiers. Sadly for me, Doomsday left me colder than a Siberian winter. If Marshall wants to be the 21st-century John Carpenter, I'll be eagerly awaiting his movies.

Do I want to see a sequel to Dog Soldiers? Hells yeah! To the Descent? No, not really. I think the ending worked great. That said, if you want to make a sequel (and finally fix the different endings) so be it.

But why is Sarah going to head back into those caves -- or why is anyone going to force her in there -- when she's distraught, catatonic, hungry, feral and probably suffering from serious mental issues? This isn't like Aliens where Ripley had (you're led to believe) years to recover from her ordeal. What kind of "authorities" would do that?

Yes - to Dog Soldiers - that was a decent enjoyable movie. Not necessarily needing a sequel but certainly better than the Descent.

Yeah they really "rushed" the sequel out. Only 4 years between them.

I'm so over "torture porn" films... can't Hollywood please make 80s style horror movies again? I miss those.

The Descent is not torture porn. Have you seen the first one? I saw it twice and I didn't nudity in the movie.

although to make it clear, I've never seen the descent, but I might rent it.

Can't understand why this is critically-acclaimed. It's an average film at best and there's certainly no need for a sequel.

the first one was one of my favorite horror movie. i hope they don't ruin this one

Would you have liked any of the Lord of the Rings movies if they had only been one chapter out of the books? NO.

So, go out and buy Jeff Long's "The Descent"(a book, folks) and realize you've all been had by more Hollywood bullcrap.

Screw Neil Marshall for ripping off great authors.

Meh. I liked it better when Sarah's escape from the caverns was all in her mind. This is like rescuing Newt in Aliens only to have her killed in the prologue of Alien³.

I agree, that made it extra scary for me. The scene witht he rock cumbling was pretty crazy, too.

Is that what happened? I was kind of thrown by the ending. I thought that Sarah did escape, only to be immediately haunted by the trauma she just narrowly escapeda sort of post-traumatic stress syndrome. I think having her only escape in her mind would be a lamer endingthe cop-out "...and it was all just a dream" ending.

Is that what happened? I was kind of thrown by the ending. I thought that Sarah did escape, only to be immediately haunted by the trauma she just narrowly escaped, a sort of post-traumatic stress syndrome. I think having her only escape in her mind would be a lamer ending, the cop-out "...and it was all just a dream" ending.

Ok so i'm probably gonna get blasted by saying I wasn't really that much of a fan of the first Decent. Maybe I was expecting more, maybe I need to watch it again. It just didn't do much for me. Or maybe it was because right before I watched it I watched Marshall's other cult movie Dog Soldiers. That was laughable, literally laughable. Were those werewolves supposed to be scary? Uhhh...no thanks. This sequel looks and sounds pretty bad. But I'm sure it will rake at the box office. Btw, I never watched Marshall's new movie Doomsday because I thought it was a joke. I mean that thing looked terrible.

Everyone has an opinion, and you did a good job of explaining yours.

In my case, I loved the original. Campy and super-hot the girls were. ;)

I understand, The Decent had its problems, and I wouldn't call it a modern classic, but I thought it was a good ride. It was a tight little movie even if it wasn't going to win awards. I look forward to the sequel.

Well if you are going to get blasted then buck up pal cause you and I both will be in the line of fire. **SPOILERS BELOW BE WARNED**

I really, REALLY wanted to like the original Descent and the best part, where I hoped it was going to get good onwards, was the first tunnel scene where the rock shifts and starts to trap the two women inside. I got claustrophobic shivers. From then on it was down hill. Or should I say, down the hole.

It degraded from a potentially psychological thriller of cave climbers turning on one another from the litany of deep under ground hazards (they list off one at a time in the beginning) to a cheap, standard, predictable, cheese-fest of killing screaming wall climbing bat creatures who's heads explode fake blood like soda filled pop cans. :/ I thought it was really, REALLY overrated. Cheap startle effects, bad mood lighting and jiggle-cam throughout.

If it was a student film I might have felt kinder to it, but all in all (even with the better ending of still being trapped in the cave) my high hopes based on the glowing reviews and high scores people placed on it were dashed to bits in a torrent of bad dialog, and horror cliche. Textbook screaming women, who start out sounding like some have an iota of intelligence but in the end make the same litany of bad decisions over and over to where you hope their characters all die to keep the stupid genes from getting into the next generation.

What would have made for a great horror film would have been to play on the strengths of all the climbing info they beat over your head on the way to the cave. All that is scary to real cave climbers will be scary to us if presented well. What should have happened was you never really knowing if what they were seeing was in fact real. And like Jaws and Alien, never giving the audience a real look at the 'creature' while at the same time giving better dialog moments that flesh out the tension between the characters and their histories would have worked far better.

The real creatures should have been the women. The real terror should have been losing their light. The only real enemy, should have been themselves as their personalities and their predicament play out to it's tension building to the point of explosion end game. Where exhaustion, oxygen depravation, claustrophobia and fear destroy them one by one as they can no longer tell what is real and what is not. Remember that great line from Empire Strikes Back...

Luke - "What's in the cave?"
Yoda - "Only what you bring with you."

THAT is what this movie should have been and I hope sometime in the future, someone can make that kind of horror film. One where the settings and impact are far more horrific because they are in fact, far more plausible. Nothing is more terrifying, than what's real. The further the filmmakers stray from that, the less it scared or even interested me. If I wanted to see screaming women and guys in rubber face masks, I'll head to the pub on a Saturday night.

the descent was only scary of you're afraid of gollem and/or modern dance troupes. the creatures were totally pathetic and moved like jobbing drama students, which they probably were. the film was excellent right up until the monsters appeared (in the nightvision sequence that is now in EVERY flippin' horror movie) so to hear that they will have a larger focus in the sequel is dissapointing, though expected.

I didnt mind the first one, and yes to be honest it did help that some of those girls were actually very nice to look at..

I thought the first one was really scary, but then maybe I'm just easily scared. Anyway, this doesn't look as great, but I'll probably jump a little, so I'll give it a chance.

Meh, looks rather lackluster and mediocre...

Okay...
I LOVED The Descent.
But I wasn't scared at all.
Maybe there were a couple of jumps from them turning around to hear a loud crawler-scream. (surround sound can be pretty loud) =]
But I am looking forward to this.

"torture Porn" the Porn does mean nudity....

you right, it does mean nudity. But there is NO nudity in the movie. That's the point Im trying to make.

i meant doesnt!!!

i think the first one stands on its own. there is no need for a sequel. i think they are gonna mess it up with this unfortunately.

Wow. There are more than a few insufferable, hyper-critical blowhards who apparently - given their casual dismissal of (if not outright disdain for) Marshall's minor masterpiece, The Descent - wouldn't know a superior horror movie if they we're staring at one for a hundred or so minutes.

Point blank: The Descent EASILY ranks amongst the very best horror movies of this decade (and I'll put my horror bona fides up against damn near anyone). That said, the idea of forcing an ill-fitting sequel on it for purely commercial considerations is nothing short of sacrilege as It can do naught but tarnish the memory of the original, which should rightly stand alone as singular, self-contained work.

AQ

you may be right that it is one of the best in the past decade, but that is truely a backhanded compliment.

Well, I wouldn't say this decade has been utterly devoid of quality horror films. In fact, I think you might be surprised at how strong of a top 10 list the 2000s is capable of producing if you set your mind to it. (It also helps if you hold a broad definition of what can rightly be called a "horror film.") I''ll post my own top 10 list tomorrow.

AQ

I liked the Cave, i wished they make a sequel for that one. It seemed like they were setting up for one with that ending.

Sarcasm??

The Descent was such a god-awful movie that it almost defies comprehension. Not very scary, mediocre plot, even more mediocre acting, and horrendous ending. Why do they have to bring this back?

You simply can't be a fan of horror movies. Seriously. There's no way. And, of course, that's fine (as neither you nor anyone else is under any obligation to be a fan of such movies). But why post an opinion that does nothing more than let those of us who DO know well-made horror films when we see them that you are entirely unqualified to discuss the genre in a competent manner? Heck, maybe comedies are more your thing. And if so, perhaps you'll having something of interest to share in thread devoted to such movies. However, all you and a lot of others posting in this thread have manged to do is plainly state your inability to distinguish a superior effort in the horror genre by failing to recognize The Descent for what it is: namely, one of the very best horror movies of this this decade (and almost certainly the best of the particular year of its release (be that 2005 in the U.K. or 2006 in the States).

Allow me to throw down the gauntlet to anyone else who may (mis)perceive The Descent to be a "god-awful [horror] movie." Name me 10 better ones made this decade (2000-2009). Good luck. Because unless your knowlede of the genre dwarfs my own and you're able to name some entirely obscure gems that I've never even heard of, you're signing up for a fool's errand. The Descent is THAT good.

My top 20 of the 2000s?

Well, right now, In no particular order, I would likely include the following:

Mulholland Dr.
Session 9
The Descent
28 Days Later
The Ring (which I prefer to Ringu)
Rec
Dawn of the Dead (Zack Snyder remake)
Inside
[Jack Ketchum's] The Girl Next Door
The Mist
Ginger Snaps
The Devil's Rejects
Funny Games [U.S. remake]
Ju-on
The Hills Have Eyes (Aja remake)
Wolf Creek
Rogue
Jeepers Creepers

You can add Eden Lake (which I just viewed) to the above list along with a few others I forgot to include: Bug, Requiem for a Dream, and 28 Weeks Later. I guess Haute Tension shouldn't be passed over just because the ending of that movie comes close to ruining everything that leads up to it.

This seems like the exact same thing as before. I really don't want to pay to see something I've already watched 2 years ago. Maybe if we could see some other kinds of monsters, I'd really be excited to watch that.

ii LOVE the Descent man
Ppl juss stupiid dese daiisz
got nuffin else to saaii but i can
admitt daht dis was a GREAT film bruv!
Cntt waait till numbaah 2 baaabyy x

I have to agree with AQueryan...The Descent took me into another dimension when it comes to my horror movies. It was a well acted, well scripted, well directed and just damn good bloody intensive. And I agree with your list too (AQ) A lot of knuckleheads who really art hardcore/die hard fans of the genre don't know a thing about a movie like The Descent. I challenge anyone to give me a better so called horror movie that is like it. "Anyone, I say" I thought so. And yes, you have to watch this movie over and over again. Because you will appreciate it more for the cult classic it is. So, stop blogging while it's popped into the DVD playing or texting while your watching your dinner on the stove. Cause your not gonna grasp the essence of this movie. Another one I will have to add that a lot of people looked over that was simple/pure horror movie making was "Frailty". A lot of people either didn't understand the concept or didn't ask themselves what the movie what asking itself. And for those of you who haven't seen it. SPOILER ALERT. It asks "If there were demons that walked among us and GOD gave you the ability to see there wrong doings and gave you the power to destroy them...would u be killing or would u be destroying them. And will it be in GODS favor or the human favor. It's just classic. But critics who didn't get it and just wanted to criticize the movie for being a movie acted like miracles don't happen and we don't have good and evil amoungst this world. I have seen spirits physically watch over me when i was younger. And could not move or talk when I was too afraid to scream for help. So, long story short. If you just don't get something, then you just don't get it. But don't criticize it because you don't understand it. Now, that's just being plain dumb.

hmmm...After having read so many favorable comments about the descent, I am starting to think I didn't see the right movie. I read the comments after having seen the movie, and frankly I didn't get much out of it. For those who say it's so great...can you please tell me what exactly was so fantastic? I am willing to change my mind. Personally I wasn't scared, and isn't that the point of a scary movie? People point out the cleverness of the movie? Clever? It has so many logical holes one doen't know where to start. How come only one person seems to have done research about the whereabouts of the cave, what it looks like..etc. If these were real climbers, they all would have tried to find some general information about the cave and how to get out and not rely on one person. One of the girls had obviously heard about the cave so she should know where it is? No? Wouldn't they have noticed from the start tht it wasn't the right direction? Or are all the caves next to each other? Or are they all Juno's (only name I actually remembered from the start) b*******? She says jump and all of them go get eaten by crazy yellow cave people who are blind, who can't smell s*** etc... Would you go mountain climbing without knowing what mountain it is?

This is however not the biggest problem...
One doesn't sympathize with the women because one hasn't gotten close to them long enough yet. I couldn't even get the names straight when they were in the cave...and I am sure I wasn't the only one...or maybe I am just bad with names. There is something however not so right when you can't even remember peoples name in the movie, after these people have died. This also makes their deaths less important in some way. One ends up watching the movie and frankly not really caring what happens to them. As one blogger said before me: when ones mind starts wandering away from what is happening with the women and start developing a weird curiosity about the crawler society (how did they end up there? are they former human beings? how do they communicate? are they male and female? How do they reproduce? etc) something is a bit off.... And one thing is that you don't care, which makes you hope that they all just get killed because..maybe they'll reveal something else about these crawlers with the women out of the way?

As a woman I also find the way they try to portray these women as strong, independant, single etc...as a bit forced. Juno as this bad ass..whatever the hell she is (look at me I'm tough, I'm sporty, I want to challenge myself, I am free and single..and go jogging and a go getter I'll wake you all up before five and you'll all do it because you're scared of me! or admire me?) ...not to mention holly (I'm not scared of anything so I swear and grit my teeth and groan when she's trying to push the bone back in my leg because I'm tough!...frankly I would have fainted with pain or quite possibly cried like a baby...) sarah is the most convincing one and who in a way carries this awful awful movie...I actually quite liked the scene where she killed juno..not just because...well Juno was quite irritating..and because the way she did it was soo..I like psychotic sarah..should have shown more of that. Also her being trapped and not being able to move was chilling. The rest of the cast..hehe theres that girl who got accidentally killed by Juno..Sarahs..seemingly..best friend..and the other girls..whose names I can't remember and well, what exactly did they add to the movie except for increasing the group in number?

There are few elements of surprise as you get an overdose of gore and crawlers. I agree with people who say that hiding them or making them part of the womens fears rather than making it "real" would be a lot scarier. In fact, Sarah going bananas in the cave, maybe even killing off her friends one by one, traumatized by fear and the death of her family could have actually been more satisfying. Making the person watching wondering if the crawlers are real or if the women are just loosing their minds..which would be perfectly understandable...would give the movie the boost it needed.
It didn't help that the crawlers...well hehe didn't look all that scary...in fact I think that my initial reaction when I saw a crawler..was..."hmmm"..followed worried thoughts..(where is this going and whyy is it going in that direction?...). The beginning was good, although, no, I do not agree with people who claim that the movie had good dialogue. What dialogue? The cheesy girl talk in the beginning? The crash was the most startling part of the movie and showed that suspense is at is highest when you least expect it and when it isn't announced by music or other visual aids. People do not need to be coached.

For those who argument by saying that people who didn't like the descent can't have seen many scary movies I only have this to say: If the descent scared you and is among your top ten...you can't have seen very many good scary movies. However I admit I might be wrong, taste is subjective, as are reactions.

The movie played with some great ideas, it could have been a psychological horror film blurring the limits of the real and the imagined...it could have been a horrorfilm with those gollum people..but hide them more, if they all leap around like monkeys well..than it isn't that scary, especially when you don't care if anyone dies or not. If one wanted a gore film...well show it..the blood squirting out of women and gollum..well not that gory when you've seen it enough times...and a bit..fake? The darkness which was intended didn't go well with the direction the movie took. If it was a psychological horror flick...perfect, the darkness would have played well with the theme..insecurity, fear, not being in control..etc..but not seeing gollums eating people but knowing they are and knowing that you're supposed to see this scene because you're supposed to find it yucky...well..if you can hardly see the gore..what is the point...

not eagerly awaiting the descent 2 because, frankly yes I liked sarah in the first one..but if she's stupid enough to go back...well than I don't think I like her much anymore...that much effort to get out...just to go back in...she can't be right in the head... I'd go home get some intense therapy, do normal people stuff...and never go down a cave again...but again..that's just me... (most people in horror flicks are in general quite stupid..and make wrong decisions to make the movie go forward..decisions no thinking person would ever make)

on the other hand..if it reveals more about the secret society of the yellow cave creatures it won't be a complete waste of time..could answer many unanswered questions...