The Cave (2005)

Blood-thirsty creatures await a pack of divers who become trapped in an underwater cave network.

Director:

Bruce Hunt

Writers:

Michael Steinberg, Tegan West

Stars:

Piper Perabo, Morris Chestnut, Cole Hauser

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:

diver | parasite | flare | diving | psychotronic film | 

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Taglines:

Beneath heaven lies hell, beneath hell lies...

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Certificate:

14A

Did You Know?

Trivia

Director Bruce Hunt's first and last movie as of 2016.

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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

[first lines]
Mike - Caver #1: It won't be so funny if we end up in a Romanian jail.
Ian - Caver #2: Relax. Nobody's been up here in years.

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Connections

Featured in Monsters Attack!: 25 Movie Collection (2016)

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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

Extremely Under-rated!!!!!

I saw this movie yesterday night, after going through my other collections and its usually IMDb that provides me motivation of either to watch something or chuck it. So i went through the reviews at IMDb and found that it wasn't highly rated. Still i decided to give it a try as i did not have anything else to watch......and i must say this movie is well made right from the start be it the acting,the choreography,the locations....everything was perfect. The only thing i found wrong was that the characters details were shallow but even then i found this movie amazing.

All i want to say is that reviewers must not go along with the herd if some people criticize then they should as well. This movie deserves the recognition and the people who made it possible as well. Hence i would recommend people to watch this and not go according to the rating earlier shown.

Details

Official Sites:

Sony Pictures [United States]

Country:

USA Germany Romania

Language:

English Romanian

Release Date:

26 August 2005 (Canada)

Also Known As:

La caverne

Filming Locations:

Zarnesti, Romania

Box Office

Budget:

$30,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$6,147,294, 28 August 2005

Gross USA:

$15,007,991

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$33,296,457

Company Credits

Production Co:

Screen Gems, Cinerenta Medienbeteiligungs KG, Lakeshore Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

97 min 93 min (DVD)

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1