New Trailer for 'The Descent: Part 2'

I don't know what critic from Daily Star called The Descent "the most terrifying monster movie since Alien," but that's too much praise. Oh, it's got a great pace and an even better concept, but once it was completely blood-soaked, The Descent failed to ascend. I still liked it a lot, but there was some zigging where some zagging might have been in order. Anyway, that's how the new trailer for the sequel, aptly titled The Descent: Part 2, begins. Horror sequels are really, really, really hard to get right, because even if the first movie worked, the sequel is usually the same set of tricks with slightly new characters. The beauty of the simplicity of Friday the 13th, for example, is that it's usually the same movie, only in New York or outer space. Still didn't work very well, but you knew what you were getting. So that's one of the reasons I'm not as ecstatic about The Descent: Part 2 as some writers. I'm also putting a little stock in Neil Marshall not returning behind the camera. It's not his script, and he won't direct, although he's still an executive producer. What I hope is that the new creative team remembers what was so good about the original film and doesn't just order new vats of blood. Here's that new trailer...
Trailer courtesy of Trailer Addict US release date? No, not yet. But it just played Fantasy Filmfest in Germany and will hit Frightfest in the UK on Monday.

Comments

[mdamien13]

LAME!!!!

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In the original ending, viewable as the "Alternate Ending" on the DVD, you see the way that this film was supposed to have ended (which is the ending that Europeans got to see, if I'm not mistaken), which would make a sequel improbable since we're led to believe that the main character never makes it out of there.

Anyway, this sequel looks like it's going to lose the claustraphobic style that was a big part of what made the first one work. The sets in this one look brightly-lit and expansive. In lieu of having a suffocating environment it looks like their solution is to throw more Crawlers around. Yawn.

Oh well, at least they didn't go the standard "a crack team of military operatives investigate the circumstances surrounding the original's plot".

[Marklar]

Extremely lame looking

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Why the fuck would the same women who was the only 1 that got out go down there again?! And the bald flesh eating grawler "pop up from dark" just doesn't cut it for me anymore. After seeing the trailer I noticed that I have seen this this "part2" already.