The Cave (2005)

User Rating:

4.7/10   

Director:

Bruce Hunt

Writers (WGA):

Michael Steinberg (written by) &
Tegan West (written by)

Release Date:

26 August 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Horror

Tagline:

There are places man was never meant to go.

Plot:

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

Plot Keywords:

Cave | Diver | Romania | Monster | Explosion

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

Also Known As:

Prime Evil (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for intense creature violence.

Runtime:

97 min | Germany:93 min (DVD version)

Country:

USA | Germany

Language:

English | Romanian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Philippines:PG-13 | Ireland:15A | Taiwan:PG-12 | Australia:M | Finland:K-15 | Argentina:13 | Mexico:B | France:-12 | Brazil:14 | UK:12 (video rating) (2005) | UK:12A (original rating) | Malaysia:U | Germany:12 | Sweden:15 | Iceland:14 | Iceland:16 (video rating) | Australia:MA (TV rating) | Netherlands:16 | South Korea:12 | USA:PG-13 | Canada:14A (Ontario) | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Bucharest, Romania

Company:

Screen Gems

Trivia:

The actors sometimes had to spend up to 10 - 12 hours a day in a wetsuit, constantly in and out of the water.

Goofs:

Factual errors: The characters seem to have completely normal uninhibited conversations under water despite having a mouthpiece fully inserted into their mouths.

Quotes:

Charlie: They fly! They frickin' fly!

Movie Connections:

Featured in "HypaSpace: (#4.170)" (2005)

Soundtrack:

Nemo

the film stays buried in the cave

The scariest thing about this horror movie is that the end alludes to a sequel. 'The Cave' is really a disappointing action movie. A team of cave and undersea researchers go to Romania (one of these inexpensive places to make a movie, for now at least) and following a destroyed church enter in a cave that proves to be a realm of underground monsters. Or are they daemons? The movie never decides if it wants to be action, science fiction, or horror, it is a mix of all without salt or fun, and acted in a wooden manner. The best thing about the movie is the cinematography, but even the dark landscape of the cave becomes soon boring, because the film lacks pace and the characters are simply not interesting. Waste of time.