Cole Hauser, Daniel Dae Kim, Eddie Cibrian

A rescue team is sent down into the world's largest cave system to try to find the spelunkers who first explored its depths. But when the group's escape route is cut off, they are hunted by the monstr...( read more  read more... )ous creatures that live down below.

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PG-13, 1 hr. 37 min.

Directed by: Bruce Hunt

Release Date: August 26, 2005

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DVD Release Date: January 3, 2006

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  • July 31, 2009
    crap version of the descent
  • March 25, 2009
    Having been released almost simultaneously with the "The Descent", which is also about a cave expedition gone bad, this film has to deal with getting compared to the excellent British horror thriller. While the set up isn't comparable, what follows soon after is: group goes into ...( read more)caves, gets locked in, has to find a way out, is not alone down there. While this film is never boring, even exciting on a few occasions it loses in most aspects to The Descent. The characters remain rather flat and uninteresting, their fate is somewhat predictable. The whole film is less gory and scary, less claustrophobic and way more unrealistic than his sibling. That's still okay entertainment for a rainy afternoon but easily forgotten soon after.
  • November 18, 2008
    As we all know Hollywood doesn't need to produce remakes for unoriginal ideas. Armageddon and Deep Impact. Volcano and Dante's Peak. Here we have The Cave which is the same story as The Descent. Only it's absolute shit compared to the brilliance of The Descent. How can two such s...( read more)imilar films be so different? Well The Cave is typical Hollywood, so we are handed cookie cutter characters (The Dr, The leader, the angry one), some political correctness. Men, women, a black and an Asian, note to writers, if a description of your film sounds like the beginning of a joke just start over. Everyone is dull and has such stilted dialogue that it doesn't matter which character says what, they're all the same. The monsters are more is MORE. It's a monster, it's a parasite, it can fly with a stupid stupid twist (Descent left it's monsters origins to speculation). By the end I didn't care, my mind was wondering and thinking about The Descent (you should watch that, it's amazing). Then came the final scene which crapped over all the shit that came before it, and that shit had dried up so the smell wasn't so bad, but after the stupidity of the last scene it just wreaked again. Though the cinematography was pretty good.
  • October 6, 2008
    It's not surprising that this film was a dud, it really didn't have anywhere to go. A group of expeditioners go into a cave I mile underground, become trapped and then try to escape whilst getting picked off one by one by some undiscovered species that has evolved in there. It is...( read more) not scary at all and barely thrilling, and it is always dark and all you see is flashlights and faces of the main characters. I could barely understand what the characters were saying and I had pretty much no idea what they were trying to achieve. There was no storyline at all and the acting wasn't anything special.

    On the plus side, there are a few cool special effects and stunts, but nothing much else.

    1.5/5
  • December 23, 2007
    This movie was mighty creepy. I really liked it it kept me on my toes.
  • November 17, 2009
    Way better than the Descent.
  • November 16, 2009
    A strange cg adventure that has suspense but no depth is added to the charactors.. mediocre
  • October 25, 2009
    The story was good and they taken with lots of interest to make this film but donno why they situated their focus into the cave in the second half... Some scenes are threatening and very interesting where as the other made us still bored because to know that the ending will be in...( read more)side the cave... There are good stunts which was graphics but tough to find out its a graphic thing and they made this story half entertained and half bored... but it will be a good entertain if u watch for the evening time... The cave was really little frightening...
  • October 20, 2009
    I agree wid da comment as under ... it was a crappy version of the descent =?
  • September 29, 2009
    Could've of been alot better, but it wasn't as bad you'd expect. It was exceptionally well acted, but horrificly directed

Critic Reviews


August 26, 2005
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle

Most everyone in the audience, except those rendered unconscious by boredom, will see the 'big twist' plot turn coming well in advance, although the qualifiers 'big' and 'twist' seem overblown and ine... full review

August 26, 2005
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

The Cave has a brisk B-movie efficiency, and not much space for bad acting, but it is blatantly derivative -- Alien or Predator in a cave. full review

August 25, 2005
Claudia Puig, USA Today

'Something's not right here,' proclaims one of the characters exploring the creepy depths of The Cave. We couldn't have said it better ourselves. full review

August 25, 2005
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune

Ten things I learned watching The Cave. 1. 'Beneath heaven lies hell. Beneath hell lies the cave.' 2. Beneath that lies the theater showing The Cave. full review

August 24, 2005
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine

Remember: CPR doesn't properly work on women unless their cleavage is visible. full review

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Comments


  • caitlink2
    August 20, 2007
    i tried to watch this movie but it was just too bad!! the shooting was too dark to even see the monsters so it wasint suspencful or scary just a waste of time! waste of 3 dollars
  • maemai26
    June 6, 2007
    do yuo guys have a cave two because you need one where eddie goes after lena and saves the world!!
  • comicfoo91
    January 6, 2007
    I haven't seen it, but it sounds like an American remake of The Descent. Is it? And yes, I realize this came out first here, but in the UK The Descent probably came out first.
  • TonytheTig3r
    September 9, 2006
    um, .....it was pretty shithouse.....plus, box car racer is shithouse. and nyone else affiliated with them. those damn blink 182inites, and angels an airwaves. i spit in ur face!
  • boxcarracer07
    August 4, 2006
    awsome movie

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