Product Description: Deep in a romanian forest scientists stumble upon the ruins of a 13th century abbey built over the entrance to an underground cave system. They hire a group of american cave explorers to investigate the caves. But the groups escape route is cut off & they are hunted by the monstrous creatures that live down below. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 05/22/2007 Starring: Morris Chestnut Cole Hauser Run time: 97 minutes Rating: Pg13
Amazon.com: While it might give spelunkers a few helpful hints about using their equipment, The Cave is strictly routine as an Alien-styled monster show. The film's major achievement is its impressive setting -- not a real cave under the Carpathian mountains (where the ill-fated characters are exploring "the Amazon of underground rivers") but a lavishly convincing cave set built on a Romanian soundstage. This gives first-time director Brad Hunt (a second- and third-unit director on the Matrix trilogy) the movie's only claim to originality, as the cavernous interiors become a death trap for most of the nine-person team (led by Cole Hauser, and including Morris Chestnut, Daniel Dae Kim from TV's Lost, and Coyote Ugly's Piper Perabo) that's exploring the maze-like cave for reasons never fully explained (maybe they just wanted to test out their fancy gear). They're not alone down there, and creature-feature specialist Patrick Tatopoulos borrows from the H.R. Giger design-book with some gnarly critters that, in turn, borrow elements from The Thing to foment suspicion and anxiety among the dwindling crew of survivors. It's all familiar to genre buffs, but there's just enough in The Cave to satisfy the curiosity of its intended audience. Dumped into theaters for a marginal release in late summer 2005, it's precisely the kind of horror flick that finds a second life on DVD. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Mutant horror movie
Overall I enjoyed this film, though my reason for picking it up had to do with three of the actors, all of whom interest me variously. Lena Headey, Piper Perabo and Eddie Cibrian have all made interesting ... Read More
Rating: - Predictable and darn near unviewable
The idea for this contemporary horror film is pretty good. Unfortunately, the conveyance is a poor one.
The story is this: A team of high-tech exploratory divers go into a cave and subsequently ... Read More
Rating: - Huge Cole Hauser fan...
and I have to say, first off, there wasn't enough of him in this for my taste. The story was chopped up and vague. They cut way too much out of this and left it on the cutting room floor. They cut the story ... Read More
Rating: - All the horrors of spelunking and diving rolled into one!
This is a classic action-adventure horror flick. From the opening scene you're already placing your wagers on the 'guess who survives' game. You can just tell where it's going, and, yes, for the most part who's ... Read More
Rating: - Jaws in a cave enviroment.
Cave is about a group of divers who have been called in to investigate a recently discovered entrance to a cave that has been sealed up for many years. They expect they are just going to do the typical dive down, ... Read More
- Mutant horror movie
- Predictable and darn near unviewable