The Descent: Part 2

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The Descent: Part 2

R

2009

1h 34m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

Adventure

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Refusing to believe her story about cave-dwelling monsters, the survivor of a spelunking exploration gone wrong is forced to follow the authorities back into the caves where something awaits.

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Critics Consensus

The Descent 2 goes spelunking for its predecessors' unnerving power but never digs beyond surface chills, although this efficient splatterfest contains enough nasty set pieces to sate the gore-prone.

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Nev Pierce

Empire Magazine

Dec 4, 2009

2/5

An uninspired retread of a horror classic, this tries hard to justify its existence... and fails.

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Nigel Floyd

Time Out

Dec 4, 2009

2/5

Harris's direction is messy, favouring confusing set-piece scares over the all-important group dynamics.

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Wendy Ide

The Times (UK)

Dec 4, 2009

3/5

The first-time director Jon Harris recreates the sense of airless, claustrophobic panic that worked so effectively the first time around and cranks up the yuck factor exponentially.

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Patrick Cavanaugh

The Wolfman Cometh

Sep 15, 2025

3/5

Even an uninspired rehash of a claustrophobic masterpiece isn't entirely a waste of time.

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Paul Lê

Bloody Disgusting

Aug 27, 2023

2/5

If nothing else, the sequel has senseless Crawler action in spades, and there is an attempt at a happier ending for those who found the original film’s conclusion too gloomy.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Aug 21, 2023

2/4

Despite its regression into full-fledged schlock mode, this horror sequel didn’t deserve the direct-to-video treatment.

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Ian S

@FuggyWugginshyre Oct 24, 2026

Brings the same claustrophobic intensity of the first installment but gets right to the action a quite a bit quicker. Arguably more enjoyable than the first!

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Robert P

@Superbad Oct 19, 2026

The Descent: Part 2 is a *2* star Movie!

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B P

@Bradster69 Aug 31, 2026

Not Bad, but Not My Favorite

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Cinema S

@cinema_sensei Aug 31, 2026

I wanted to like this, but forcing Sarah back into the cave right after surviving that absolute nightmare made zero sense. Stripping away the intense psychological claustrophobia of the first film turned this into a pretty generic creature-feature. The practical gore is still decent and there are a couple of solid jump scares, but it lacks all the emotional weight and pure, suffocating dread that made the original so special.

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Real D

@Realdealoffical Aug 7, 2026

This movie is unrealistic in garbage. There’s no way you know survived the first movie after getting attacked by 1 billion of those aliens and what does she live off of there’s nothing but rats and dook water in there. This is hands down the worst movie made in history I know the producers parents look back at this movie and get mad at themselves for raising such a bird brain of a kid i truly hope they never direct another movie ever again. The lowest i can go is one star but if it were up to me this wouldn’t even get an inch of a star.

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Daniel L

@Hotchopeppa Jul 2, 2026

Love it. This first part is hands down the best supernatural, claustrophobic cave movie ever made. And one of my all time favourite horror / thrillers. But part 2 is arguably just as good.

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Synopsis

Refusing to believe her story about cave-dwelling monsters, the survivor of a spelunking exploration gone wrong is forced to follow the authorities back into the caves where something awaits.

Director: Jon Harris
Production Co: Celador Productions
Rating: R (Language|Grisly Images|Strong Bloody Horror Violence|Terror)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Adventure
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 31, 2016
Runtime: 1h 34m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital, DTS
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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