The Cave (film)

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The Cave

Directed by	Bruce Hunt
Produced by	Gary Lucchesi Andrew Mason Michael Ohoven Tom Rosenberg Richard S. Wright
Written by	Michael Steinberg Tegan West
Starring	Cole Hauser Morris Chestnut Eddie Cibrian Rick Ravanello Marcel Iures
Music by	Reinhold Heil Johnny Klimek Didier Rachou
Cinematography	Ross Emery
Editing by	Brian Berdan
Distributed by	Screen Gems
Release date(s)	August 26, 2005
Running time	97 min.
Language	English
Budget	~ US$30,000,000
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The Cave is a 2005 sci-fi/horror film directed by Bruce Hunt.

Tagline: Beneath Heaven lies Hell. Beneath Hell lies...
Tagline: There are places man was never meant to go.

1 Plot
2 Similarities to other caving films
3 Main cast
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Deep in the Romanian forest, a team of scientists stumble upon the ruins of a 13th century abbey. On further inspection, they make a startling discovery - the abbey is built over the entrance to a giant underground cave system. These scientists are Dr. Nicolai (Iures) and his associate Bacovia Radescu. Local biologists believe the cave could contain an undiscovered ecosystem, so they hire a group of American spelunkers to help them investigate its depths. Also tagging along is cameraman Alex Kim (Daniel Kim).

Jack (Cole Hauser) and his brother Tyler (Eddie Cibrian) are the thrill-seeking professional cave explorers hired by the scientists. The two run a team of the top divers in the world. They arrive in Romania with the latest equipment, including a new type of scuba tank allowing a diver to remain submerged for up to 24 hours. The diving team, which includes Charlie (Piper Perabo), Briggs (Ravanello), sonar expert Strode (Darcy-Smith), and Buchanan (Morris Chestnut), begins its exploration. In the cave, they discover bizarre creatures, and also a group of explorers from three decades ago, who are no longer quite human.

The creatures within the movie are the result of a parasite from within the cave system. The parasite infects its host (the human) and begins to transform it into a new humanoid built for surviving in cave systems. Several of the crew are infected with this parasite, including a female that is able to escape in the end, supposedly with the intent to "Infect the rest of the world".

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[edit] Similarities to other caving films

The Cave, The Descent, both released theatrically in 2005, and The Cavern on DVD in 2006. All three films involve spelunking and terrifying subterranean life that hunts down the principal characters. The Descent was held as the best of the three according to ticket sales and critical reviews; however, The Cave was the only one of the three that was actually filmed inside a cave.