The Cavern (film)

The Cavern
Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi
Produced by Terry Lee Robbins
Ioana A. Miller
Gerald A. Vitatoe
Written by Olatunde Osunsanmi
Terry Lee Robbins
Story by Olatunde Osunsanmi
Starring Sybil Temtchine
Mustafa Shakir
Music by Bryan Galvez
Chakra
Edited by Olatunde Osunsanmi
Distributed by Spotlight Pictures
Release dates
 October 30, 2005
Running time
 65 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $150,000 (estimated)

The Cavern (originally released as WIthIN) is a 2005 horror film directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi. The film's original title was changed by the studio to cash in on the success of 2005 films The Cave and The Descent.

Plot

The film is set in the Kyzyl Kum Desert, Kazakhstan. The opening scenes of the movie sets up the various alliances and tensions between a group of cavers. Five of them - Bailey (Sybil Temtchine), Gannon (Mustafa Shakir), Domingo (Andres Saenz-Hudson), Miranda (Ogy Durham), and Ori (Andrew Caple-Shaw) - are part of a team who have caved 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), who the band have hired as guides, and Ambrose (Danny A. 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 prior, and whose story is told in flashback as the movie goes on. The men are killed one by one by a mysterious creature, and just as the two women find the escape route, they are captured. They awaken in the beast's lair naked and wrapped in animal skin blankets where they find photos, belongings and an airplane wing in the surrounding area. After searching further, 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 Peter. He proceeds to brutally kill one and rape the other.

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 caving 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.

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