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:

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:

Taking Terror to a whole new Depth!

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for intense creature violence

Details

Official Sites:

Sony Pictures [United States]

Country:

USA Germany Romania

Language:

English Romanian

Release Date:

26 August 2005 (USA)

Also Known As:

Prime Evil

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

Did You Know?

Trivia

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

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Goofs

When Strode's DPV (diver propulsion vehicle) explodes, there is a fireball. DPVs are electric, so there is nothing to ignite into a gas-like explosion.

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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 Hagan Reviews: Intermedio (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

Did anyone notice this interesting prop?

Two things - one: this film is nowhere near as bad as some say. Of course, that doesn't make it good, but I enjoyed it.

Second - the prop used to show the strength of communications signal when the first scout explores the cave system is in fact a silver Korg guitar tuner! Not worth mentioning usually except that it is shown in close up several times during this sequence, with the row of red lights normally used to show how close to the note the guitar string is representing here the strength of the signal from the first scout diver...

You can freeze the DVD on one of the closeups to see the words "Cents" and "Hz" and the note names E A D G B E written on the tuner. Classic.

Now that's what I call cheap props for an expensive film. Incidentally, the Korg tuners are very good - at tuning guitars.