The Descent - Part Two

[fishonthecarpet]

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Warning: Trailer contains a bit of a spoiler for the new movie.

Anyone else pretty excited for this?
When I heard this was coming I remembered I'd been meaning to watch The Descent for a while, so watched it with a bunch of friends last night. Freaking intense - really loved it.

Of course the very prospect of the sequel is a bit ludicrous and I'm fairly sure it forces us to accept the American ending of the first one In the US version, Sarah escapes. In the Brit version which we also got, that turns out to be a hopeless dream as Sarah is left alone to the Crawlers in the cave. A much better ending if you were to ask me.

Seems to be pretty much more of the same. I'm happy with that.

[Daniel]

Loved the first one - I find the section where they almost get stuck in the pipe almost unbearable tense. Gotta say I'm a bit dubious about the sequel due to the new writing/directing team. Will still give it a red hot go when it comes out though.

[Jickle]

The first one didn't do much for me. I was enjoying it until the monsters started popping up everywhere - clostrophobia is much scarier than spring-loaded cats.

Also - and feel free to correct me on this one - but horror sequels are veeeeery rarely worth it. Only exceptions that immediately spring to mind are Evil Dead 2 and Dawn of the Dead.

[BB2K]

I did want to, but never did, see the first one, so I guess I have motivation now. Apart form that, what Jickle said about horror sequels.

[Space_Monkey]

I watched The Descent with a bunch of friends back at uni. Normally some friends, beers and sugary snacks render a horror film all but powerless still I remember everyone of us being glued to the TV in silence during some of the scenes.

Also I wasn't aware there was an alternate ending for the US release. I must've had the UK version cause I remember being satisfied with the ending.

I'm a bit sceptical of a sequel with a new team, will probably wait on the reviews to help me decide.

Oh and Jickle some more horror films with good sequels, Alien, Hostel (well it depends if you like that sorta thing but it's certainly better than the original) and 28 Days Later.

[Lazlow]

Also - and feel free to correct me on this one - but horror sequels are veeeeery rarely worth it. Only exceptions that immediately spring to mind are Evil Dead 2 and Dawn of the Dead.

Hellbound: Hellraiser II >_>

EDIT: Hostel isn't really a horror film imo, merely a exploitive gorehound thriller.

[TAT]

Also - and feel free to correct me on this one - but horror sequels are veeeeery rarely worth it. Only exceptions that immediately spring to mind are Evil Dead 2 and Dawn of the Dead.
ALIENS, you shmuck!

And you call yourself a film reviewer?!

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Enjoyed the first one too but I'm not sold with the new people directing it, seems pretty lackluster to me

[Jickle]

ALIENS, you shmuck!

And you call yourself a film reviewer?!

Forgive me if I'm wrong (because, unbelivably, I've never seen Aliens), but isn't Aliens basically an action movie? Because that's different, sort of. :p

Also, despite everything I'm quite looking forward to [Rec]2. Apparently it turned out pretty well.

[Daniel]

Hellbound: Hellraiser II >_>

EDIT: Hostel isn't really a horror film imo, merely a exploitive gorehound thriller.

Bravo that man. Was going to mention Hellbound myself.

[jawsy]

Aliens is such a different beast to Alien that to consider it a sequel is almost pointless. But yeah, it's a balls to the floor action film, anyway.

And to be honest, I thought Hostel worked well for what it was aiming to be (which is much closer to Lazlow's terminology than 'horror', but at this point it is like we are splitting alba-core and ska-core...which is to say it's all part of the same scene), but that Hostel 2 was a piece of crap.

Oh, and Day... is way better than Dawn...

And I guess I will go see this.

[D.C.]

The first one didn't do much for me. I was enjoying it until the monsters started popping up everywhere - clostrophobia is much scarier than spring-loaded cats.
I still really enjoyed the second half with the monsters - but you're right - the film was arguably at its best watching the girls panic like crazy in tiny spaces.

[TAT]

Forgive me if I'm wrong (because, unbelivably, I've never seen Aliens), but isn't Aliens basically an action movie? Because that's different, sort of. :p
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And no. That's like saying that Jaws is basically a movie about the beach

Also, despite everything I'm quite looking forward to [Rec]2. Apparently it turned out pretty well.
[REC]3 is currently in the works.

[BB2K]

Oh and Jickle some more horror films with good sequels, Alien, Hostel and 28 Days Later.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no!

[Slippery]

28 days later is vastly superior to 28 weeks.

[fishonthecarpet]

28 Weeks was still pretty enjoyable as a fun film. I thought it was very well put together and directed - just lacked the uniqueness of the first.

I'm still kind of new to the horror genre I have barely seen any sequels... Shamefully I haven't even seen Alien(s) yet.

[Saxby]

Aliens is one of my fav. movies of ALL TIME. Such a masterpiece.

[fishonthecarpet]

Also I wasn't aware there was an alternate ending for the US release. I must've had the UK version cause I remember being satisfied with the ending.

I'm a bit sceptical of a sequel with a new team, will probably wait on the reviews to help me decide.

It just cuts about a minute off - you know the hallucination where she escapes? It cuts it off before you are shown it's a hallucination.

From what people are saying on IMDB it's not fantastic but still good fun. The premise is a little ridiculous though.

[TAT]

Aliens is one of my fav. movies of ALL TIME. Such a masterpiece.
Aliens was my Terminator 2.

It bothers and disgusts me that so many people haven't seen it.

[St@ckboy]

The first one was hilarious. I have a ground of friends that love bad horror as much as I do and we laughed our way through it.

Can't wait for the second one.

[Space_Monkey]

28 Weeks was still pretty enjoyable as a fun film. I thought it was very well put together and directed - just lacked the uniqueness of the first.

Pretty much what I was going to say.