Deeper underground? Not exactly. Serviceable enough on its own terms, The Descent Part 2 fails to up the ante on Neil Marshall's 2005 hit.
Comparisons to Aliens are misplaced, despite survivor Shauna Macdonald's Sarah evoking the haunted, hardened Ripley of James Cameron's '86 follow-up.
Where that film felt bigger and beefier than its predecessor, this plays like a virtual remake - only this time we already know what the bat-faced Crawlers look like, so it's just a matter of waiting for them to strike.
Replacing Neil Marshall at the helm, Jon Harris delivers a steady string of shocks and puts his cast through their paces, caking them in blood, mud and worse
Some of the splatter is sensational - though frantic editing renders it occasionally hard to tell what the fuck just happened.
The film's graphic gusto kept a packed FrightFest crowd cheering. Shame, though, that you could count the fresh ideas on the fingers of one blood-gushing stump.
The Secretlab Christmas sale has arrived, and some of the deals are just as good as Black Friday
One of the most iconic D&D RPGs ever made stood out among Baldur's Gate and Fallout as it was the "first" to make companions "feel like fully functional parts of the story"
Final Fantasy 7's original director suggests Cloud should be proud of the JRPG's infamous love triangle: "What a lucky guy"
