The Cave (2005)

Bloodthirsty creatures await a pack of divers who become trapped in an underwater cave network.

Director:

Bruce Hunt

Writers:

Michael Steinberg, Tegan West

Stars:

Cole Hauser, Eddie Cibrian, Morris Chestnut

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Cole Hauser	...	Jack McAllister
Eddie Cibrian	...	Tyler McAllister
Morris Chestnut	...	Top Buchanan
Lena Headey	...	Dr. Kathryn Jennings
Piper Perabo	...	Charlie
Rick Ravanello	...	Briggs
Daniel Dae Kim	...	Alex Kim
Kieran Darcy-Smith	...	Strode
Marcel Iures	...	Dr. Nicolai
Vlad Radescu	...	Dr. Bacovia
Simon Kunz	...	Mike - Caver #1
David Kennedy	...	Ian - Caver #2
Alin Panc	...	Razvan - Caver #3
Zoltan Butuc	...	Corvin - Caver #4
Brian Steele	...	Creature Performer

Storyline

Decades after a rock church in communist Romania's Carpathians caved when an expedition caused a landslide and buried everyone, Dr. Nicolai's scientific team exploring the associated Templar Knights monster fighting-legend discovers a deep, flooded cave system and hires the brothers Jack and Tyler's brilliant divers team to explore it. Another explosion traps them, after finding a mysterious parasite turning all species carnivore, and later an independently evolved predator species. Jack may be infected and turning, but Tyler sticks with him, so the group splits, hunted by the monsters, which also fly.

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Plot Keywords:

cave | diver | church | monster | explosion | 

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Taglines:

Beneath heaven lies hell, beneath hell lies...

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Horror | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for intense creature violence

Details

Official Sites:

Sony Pictures [us]

Country:

USA Germany

Language:

English Romanian

Release Date:

26 August 2005 (USA)

Also Known As:

Prime Evil

Filming Locations:

Bucharest, Romania

Box Office

Budget:

$30,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$96,949 (South Africa) (31 March 2006)

Gross:

$149,658 (South Africa) (7 April 2006)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Screen Gems, Cinerenta Medienbeteiligungs KG, Lakeshore Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

97 min 93 min (DVD)

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

One of the scenes at the beginning of the movie uses the same set as Underworld: Evolution

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Goofs

In the scene where Kathryn is falling down the waterfall, you can clearly see she is only wearing her dive booties. But as soon she enters the water again she has her fins on.

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Quotes

[last lines]
Kathryn: At first, I thought it couldn't survive outside of a cave environment. Now, I'm not sure. I think it wants to get out.

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Connections

Referenced in Bad Movie Beatdown: The Cavern (2012)

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Soundtracks

"Nemo"
Written by Tuomas Holopainen
Performed by Nightwish
Courtesy of Roadrunner Records, Nuclear Blast Records, Scene Nation Oy and Spinefarm Records

User Reviews

"Pitch Black" underground

Truth is, that's all one needs to say about this low-budget suspenser about a group of spelunkers and scientists following a mysterious passage deep into the earth, long hidden beneath an ancient church in Romania. They quickly run into malformed creatures that exist only in the darkness, and get picked off one by one as they race to find a way out. The creatures are not as scary as the ones in "Pitch Black" or even "The Relic." There is a much better movie buried here (pun intended) involving some very tense and exciting sequences as the spelunkers work their way through various caves and passageways and waterways, and climb up and down steep rock walls. But the clichéd monster movie keeps getting in the way. And in the end, it doesn't help that each character is a walking cliché seemingly right out of "The Core." I would gladly watch "The Cave" a second time, but only for the cave exploration scenes. The ending has a nice, slightly twisty touch.