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Was she in the truck dreaming she was back in the cave, or was she in the cave dreaming she had escaped?
i thought she ended up in the cave, insane and about to be gollum food
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Damnit i screwed that up 
I put “spoilers” in the title. You don’t need them in your post.
IIRC correctly there are two endings for this movie. The US one and the one for the rest of us.
In the US one I believe it ends in the truck her seeing a dead friend. The version I saw continued with her waking up back trapped in the cave. Imagining her dead daughter with a birthday cake while the cave creatures close in for the kill.
That’s what I saw, but I wasn’t sure if that was just her sitting in the truck dreaming.
Personally, I have no problems with the escape. Usually one person gets out at the end of a horror movie. It’s just manipulation for the director to have her escape, and then pull the “only a dream” trick.
You can’t make a dream look exactly like reality and then just go, “whoops, just a dream”.
Like others, I think the movie could have been better if they had just made it sort of a descent into madness, maybe left some ambiguity as to whether creatures were real or imagined. . .you could have had people “chased” off cliffs, kill each other due to hallucinations, etc.
The setting was scary and claustrophobic enough without some made up beasties.
I saw this in a silly movie marathon: The Cave, The Cavern, The Descent. The last one was definitley the best and The Cavern was the worst piece of dung I have seen in the last 10 years. And if you liked The Descent rent Dog Soldiers] by thesame director. It’s a werewolf movie that is done well.
They all had “something is chasing us in the cave!” I also would have liked the “descent into madness” angle and thought that could have been explored more. So you weren’t entirely sure if they were killing each other or monsters.
As it is I’m torn between thinking she’s going to kill all the beasties with her bare hands to become lone queen of the underword, or if she’s monster food.
I liked the clicky noises the critters made. Like their version of bat radar.
Not exactly. Did you see it on DVD? There are actually three different endings, the US theatrical ending, the UK theatrical ending (which I think everyone else that isn’t in the US got as well) and the DVD ending.
In the US theatrical version after Sarah is knocked out escaping the creatures for the last time, she comes to, escapes out of the tunnel, gets into her truck and drives off, before finally pulling over on the road and seeing a vision of Juno, the girl she murdered. So she does escape but she’s clearly been screwed up by the experience (to the point that she’s experiencing visual hallucinations).
In the UK theatrical version after falling down the tunnel and being knocked out in escaping the creatures, she comes to, hallucinates the vision of her dead daughter with the birthday cake, and then the camera pulls back revealing that there is no way out down this tunnel and the creatures are closing back in. So she doesn’t escape.
And finally, in the DVD version, we get both endings, first one and then the other. First there’s the ending to the US version where she makes it out, then after she sees the vision of Juno, it’s back to the cave in the UK ending. Implying, I guess, that she didn’t escape and she was just dreaming of it while unconscious.
There were some creepy parts to the movie, but the ending on the DVD where her escape was revealed to be a dream felt cheap to me.
I agree. I think the film’s more effective if she really escapes but is permanently haunted by the experience (and by her own actions).