Horror at the weekend

I'm sorry for the delay on this posting guys, the uni coursework is piling up and with deadlines coming up and passing it's been hectic for me! I hope your all far more relaxed =)

I can't wait till the Christmas break when I won't have so much to do, sure I'll still be revising, but that's for about 2 exams, not 10 pieces of coursework all at once lol.

Anyway, back to business. I managed to convince my step dad that he did have time to go to the cinema so off we went. As you know from my last post, we planned to see The Descent Part 2.

We went for a mid evening viewing which worked great as there were only a few other people in the screening and we even missed all the commercials but arrived in time for the trailers, not that any looked particularly good.

I liked the original The Descent, though I know a lot didn't, but I still couldn't help but wonder how they would move the story on, and make it new. So it starts with (don't worry I wont spoil the film, this is just the beginning setting as it were) a search party, looking for the girls who went caving 2 days earlier.

Sarah, who we left in the cave at the end of the first film, has just been discovered by a car after escaping from the cave and is taken to hospital. The search party tries to ask about the rest of the girls, what happened and where they are. Sarah has lost her memory of the incident and even forgets her daughter is dead.

A sniffer dog follows her trail to the old mining church, where it runs off scared, and the sheriff decides that they should go down the old mine, taking Sarah with them hoping that she remembers the way her and her friends took.



There is a twist thrown in there, and your left asking a few questions, which could be answered in a third film, but other than that, the story is pretty much the same, people go into the cave, people then discover the horrible creatures down there, and soon people start dying.

There are your usual jumpy bits due to the music and something suddenly popping up on screen, though I have to say I managed to predict when they would be, again I think the music helped me do that lol. But, I still jumped non-the less.

Ooooo, there was one quite funny bit added in there, something to do with a pool of something, I won't ruin it, but I've said enough for you to realise what I mean if you watch it =)

It's entertaining to watch, and with the few things they throw into the mix, they manage to keep it interesting. If you liked the first one, The Descent, you'll like part 2, if you didn't like the first one, this won't change your mind.

The only thing that bugged me, is the questions it leaves you asking yourself, they aren't questions you can figure out by yourself, or even by watching the film again, they seem like questions that leave it open for a third film.

Which means any questions your left wondering about, you'll just have to wait and leave them unsolved. But it's good to discuss them with whom ever you went with, though not for too long =P Enjoy.