Following the events of the first movie, Sarah (Shauna Macdonald) is taken to a hospital. She has memory loss. A rescue team searches the caves for the missing women. A dog tracks one of the woman to an abandoned unexplored mine. Sheriff Vaines (Gavan O'Herlihy) takes deputy Elen Rios, Sarah, three cavers, and old timer Ed Oswald down into the depths.

The horror of the cave dwellers is diminished this time around. They are no longer the surprise of the first movie. The first issue is Sarah's position in the eyes of the law. At the hospital, she should be a suspect in murdering her companions. It would have been a more compelling position to put Sarah into. Once in the tunnels, the movie gets back into the claustrophobia which is so vital to the previous movie. There is one terrific section where a woman is trapped in a cave-in. One returning character is beyond belief. Overall, the shock is gone and this sequel fails to reach new depths.

This film picks up where the first one left off. Flashbacks come later in a discovered camera. Sarah has survived but has amnesia. The idea is to jog her memory by taking her back to the cave with blind mutant orcs so they can make the same film over again with some different characters. And BTW Juno is still alive.

I enjoyed this one as much as the first. I thought the characters were slightly better.

Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity. Note: Do not ride in an elevator that has been dormant for years. It needs to be inspected and certified per OSHA 1917.116

An experienced rescue team composed by Dan (Douglas Hodge), Greg (Joshua Dallas) and Cath (Anna Skellern) is trying to locate the six women in the caves of the Appalachian Mountains. Meanwhile Sarah (Shauna Macdonald) is found wounded, covered with blood, in shock and amnesic by a truck driver and brought to the Hyett County Hospital. Sheriff Vaines (Gavan O'Herlihy) suspects that Sarah has killed her friends and forces her to return to the Boreham Caves together with his Deputy Rios (Krysten Cummings) and the rescue team. They search deeper and deeper in the caves but when Sarah recovers her memory, she panics and Sheriff Vaines shoots, provoking a cave-in. The trapped group sooner faces the hunger and savage breed of predators while trying to find a way out.

"The Descent" is a scary, claustrophobic, tense and gore story, and a psychological study of the characters under a huge condition of stress, deteriorating the relationship among them. Unfortunately "The Descent: Part 2" is a stupid sequel of a good story that could have worked. However, Sheriff Vaines is an imbecile character and his stupid attitudes, taking Sarah that is wounded and in shock to return to the underground, shooting in the cave and cuffing Sarah in a tense moment, are so absurd that ruin the plot. The terrible conclusion with the intention to give a hook to a sequel (or prequel, since the creatures might be relatives of the old man and other families of miners) is awful. The best line is the moment when Sarah tells Rios that "it is just the mind playing tricks on you". My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): "Abismo do Medo 2" ("Abyss of the Fear 2")