The Cavern (film)

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The Cavern
Directed by	Olatunde Osunsanmi
Produced by	Terry Lee Robbins Ioana A. Miller Gerald A. Vitatoe
Written by	Olatunde Osunsanmi Terry Lee Robbins
Starring	Sybil Temtchine Mustafa Shakir Ogy Durham Andrew Caple-Shaw Danny A. Jacobs Andres Saenz-Hudson Johnnie Colter Neno Pervan Kamen Gabriel Cassandra Duarden
Music by	Bryan Galvez Chakra
Editing by	Olatunde Osunsanm
Distributed by	Dead Crow Productions LLC
Release date(s)	LA Premiere: October 30, 2005
Running time	80 min.
Language	English
Budget	$150,000 (estimated)[1]
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The Cavern is a 2005 horror film directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi. 8 explorers are trapped in a Russian cave system are hunted by an unknown presence. This was originally called WIthIN but was renamed by the studio to cash in on the success of The Cave and The Descent.

Tagline: Descend into terror

[edit] Plot

The Cavern is set in the Kyzyl Kum Desert, Kazakhstan. The cavers in The Cavern are a coed bunch, the opening scenes of the movie set up the various alliances and tensions between the group. Five of them-- Bailey (The Passion of Ayn Rand's Sybil Temchen), Gannon (Mustafa Shakir, Marci X), Domingo (Andres Saenz-Hudson), Miranda (Ogy Durham from House, Dirty Sexy Money, and Ugly Betty fame), and Ori (American Gun's Andrew Caple-Shaw)-- are part of a team who have spelunked together for a number of years, making their living from exploring and photographing new caves and reporting back to the world what they find there. Also involved in this trip are two Kazakh natives, Vlad (Kamen Gabirel) and Slava (Neno Pervan of The Hunted), whom the band have hired as guides, Ambrose (Danny Jacobs), who is researching for a book on caving. It can also be said that there is a ghost with the group -- that of Rachel (Cassandra Duarden), a member of the team who died on an expedition in Peru two years previous, and whose story is told in flashback as the movie goes on. The men are killed one by one and just as the two women find the escape route, they are captured. They awaken in a cave wrapped in animal skin where they find photos, belongings and an aeroplane wing in the surrounding area. The two find water then food and while eating, discover that the meat is one of their dead friends. The beast enters and we discover he was the only survivor of a plane crash, a Russian boy called Petr. He proceeds to brutally kill one and rape the other and the film ends.

[edit] Similarities to other caving films

The Cave and 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 superior of the three according to ticket sales and critical reviews.