The Descent Part 2

The Descent Part 2 is the 2009 sequel to The Descent, directed by Jon Harris, the editor of the first film.


 * Action Survivor: When Sarah sees Dan and Rios being stalked unawares by a Crawler, she doesn't attack the Crawler or try to shout out a warning. Rather, she
 * Badass Grandpa: Sheriff Vaines gets a jump scare with a Crawler leaping out screaming. His reaction? Punch it in the face and knock it down.
 * Call Back: escape is nearly a shot-for-shot remake of the first movie's ending.
 * Chained Heat: Vaines chains himself to Sarah partway through the movie to keep her from running away.
 * Covers Always Lie: Not so much the cover, but the blurb, which promises "a new tribe of crawlers, inbred, deformed and even more viciously feral". Nope, same old Crawlers as the first movie.
 * Cruel Twist Ending: See Shocking Swerve.
 * Deleted Scene: A handful, mainly setting up the rescue team of cavers. Oddly enough, all of the scenes are included as a single continuous chapter with no commentary.
 * Downer Ending:
 * Hollywood Darkness: The sequel forgoes pitch-blackness for silhouette shots in most cases
 * Never Found the Body: Exploited to not explain survival after the events of the first movie.
 * Not Quite Dead: Much like Beth in the first movie, proves to be not quite dead when he grabs  on their way out.
 * Redemption Equals Death: have learned from each other that the easiest way to survive is to make sure that the others die. By the end of the film, they've both executed self-sacrifices to allow others to live.
 * Revised Ending: Based on the Director's Commentary and an early script review, the ending may have originally lacked its current Shocking Swerve. If so, it was definitely a failed Author's Saving Throw.
 * Senseless Sacrifice: tackles one of the Crawlers into a chasm to give  a chance to get to the other side whereupon she's killed by a Crawler on the other side. Admittedly, he was probably dying at the time due to having had the side of his neck torn out.
 * This Is a Drill: Greg uses a power drill in his kit to kill one of the crawlers by drilling into its head.
 * Took a Level in Badass: Once she recovers her memory, Sarah regains all of her levels in Badass. isn't far behind.
 * Vasquez Always Dies:
 * Wild Child: initially seems to have reverted to this in her survival. She gets better.