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Is The Descent: Part 2 Scary? The Verdict and the Whole Plot

Rating: 6
Author: Scaredy Cat

Yes, 6 out of 10. It is a cave creature story with jump scares and a rescue team that goes somewhere it should not.

THE SCARE SIGNAL

SCARE SCORE

6 /10

DREAD LEVEL

Medium

Expect a night or two of listening carefully to dark, tight spaces.

DOG

Dog: fine

fine, no dog dies.

Ruling: Skip it if tight spaces bother you, because the rescue team spends the whole movie in them.

The Descent: Part 2 runs 94 minutes. A woman who has just crawled out of a cave covered in blood is asked to go back into it, which is the kind of request that should get a second opinion.

The premise, briefly

Sarah Carter comes out of the cave system alone with no memory, and the sheriff sends her back down with a rescue team to find her five missing friends.

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How it ends

Almost everyone dies underground, including Juno and the sheriff. Sarah is left drawing the crawlers away from Rios, who gets out of the cave but is knocked out by Ed and dumped at the entrance as a crawler appears.

The scene you're dreading

In the middle, Vaines is handcuffed to Sarah when he falls off a ledge, and Rios cuts off his hand at Juno's order to save Sarah.

The dog

No dog dies in The Descent: Part 2. A dog runs out of a barn yelping in fear.

It is a hopeless cave survival story, and the fear comes from crawlers that hunt by sound and attack in the dark.

THE SHORT VERSION IS HIDDEN

How it ends, the scene you're dreading, what happens to the dog, and the bottom line. About twenty seconds to read.

What actually happens

A search party led by the prime suspect

Two days after the first film, Sarah staggers out of the cave system covered in blood, with amnesia. At the hospital a doctor finds that some of the blood matches the type of her missing friend Juno. Sheriff Vaines and his deputy Rios take Sarah back toward the cave along with three pothole specialists named Dan, Greg and Cath, and they reach it through an old mine shaft run by an old man named Ed. Near the entrance they find Rebecca's corpse, which sets off flashbacks for Sarah. Vaines suspects she is responsible for the women's disappearance. Partway through a tunnel, Sarah lashes out at Vaines and Greg and then bolts.

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Never raise your voice underground

The team splits up to look for Sarah. A crawler startles Vaines, his pistol goes off, and part of the cavern collapses and pins Cath under rocks away from the others. The rest look for another route and enter a room full of bones, where they find Holly's damaged video camera. The recordings show that the missing women were attacked by crawlers. Sarah is hiding close by, overhears the footage and recovers her memory. Rios panics and calls for help, which brings the crawlers toward her. Sarah clamps a hand over Rios's mouth, since the crawlers are blind and hunt by sound, and they watch a crawler kill Dan and drag him away. Cath squeezes free, crushes a crawler under the rocks and meets Greg. They find Sam's body hanging across a chasm and try to swing over on it, but crawlers attack, Greg sacrifices himself, and Cath is killed after she screams his name.

The handcuff was a mistake

Vaines is attacked by a crawler, and Juno, who is still alive, rescues him. In a pool of water, Sarah and Rios take down a crawler, and then they meet up with Vaines and Juno. Juno is angry that Sarah stabbed her leg with a pickaxe and abandoned her, and she nearly kills Sarah until Rios lies that Sarah came back voluntarily. Juno leads them to a feeding pit with a supposed passage to the surface. Vaines handcuffs himself to Sarah so she cannot run again, and then he falls over a ledge and nearly pulls her down with him. With crawlers closing in, Juno tells Rios to remove Vaines's hand. Rios does it despite his protests, which lets Sarah go while Vaines and the crawlers on him fall to their deaths. That is the worst moment, and it happens in the middle of the movie.

Ed and his shovel

Sarah, Juno and Rios reach the exit and find a group of crawlers and their huge leader in the way. They try to sneak past, but the dying Greg turns up and grabs Juno's leg to save himself. She screams, and the crawlers come. Greg dies, and the women fight again. Once the other crawlers are dead, Sarah tries to pull Juno away from the leader, which slashes Juno's stomach and wounds her fatally. Sarah kills it, and Juno dies in her arms. More crawlers arrive, and Sarah screams to draw them toward herself so Rios can escape. Rios climbs out and tries to call for help, but Ed knocks her out with a shovel and drags her back to the cave entrance. As she wakes up, a bloody crawler comes out of the cave with its arms stretched wide.

The ending, explained

Rebecca, Dan, Cath, Greg, Sam, Vaines and Juno are all dead by the end. Sarah screams to pull the crawlers away from Rios, which lets Rios get out of the cave. Outside, Ed knocks Rios out with a shovel and leaves her at the cave entrance. She is just coming around when a blood-covered crawler walks out of the cave with its arms outstretched.

The post-credits ruling

There is no post-credits scene. You can leave when the credits start.

✓ Spoiled safelyDog status: fine, no dog dies.

Questions people ask at 1am

Is The Descent: Part 2 scary?

Yes, The Descent: Part 2 is a 6 out of 10. The dread level is medium, and the fear is jump scares, blind creatures that hunt by sound and a lot of tight dark spaces.

How does The Descent: Part 2 end?

Juno and Vaines die, and Sarah draws the crawlers away so Rios can escape. Ed knocks Rios out and leaves her at the cave entrance, and a bloody crawler emerges as the movie ends.

Does the dog die in The Descent: Part 2?

No, no dog dies in The Descent: Part 2. A dog does run out of a barn yelping in fear.

Is there a post-credits scene in The Descent: Part 2?

No. The Descent: Part 2 has no post-credits scene, so you can leave when the credits start.

How do the crawlers find people in The Descent: Part 2?

The crawlers are blind and hunt by sound. Sarah covers Rios's mouth to hide her from one, and Cath is killed after she screams Greg's name.

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