The Cave

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The Cave

PG-13

2005

1h 37m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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Deadly monsters hunt members (Cole Hauser, Morris Chestnut, Eddie Cibrian) of an exploration team within a vast network of caverns beneath the Carpathian Mountains.

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Critics Consensus

Despite its stylized and impressive sets, this horror-monster movie mish-mash suffers from endless cliches and wildly implausible plotlines.

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J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

06/29/2022

If the creature in Alien had proliferated like the movie’s knockoffs, mankind would never have survived.

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Marc Savlov

Austin Chronicle

09/04/2005

0.5/5

Forgettable.

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Sara Michelle Fetters

MovieFreak.com

09/03/2005

1/4

Not only is Patrick Tatopoulos' (I, Robot) creature design laughable, but the actors (other than Hauser who somehow manages to make it through unscathed) give some of most shockingly awful performances I've seen all year.

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Joshua Starnes

ComingSoon.net

03/18/2011

5/10

The Cave is a decently crafted but unoriginal and uninspiring creature feature with a few moments of true entertainment that the rest of the film never matches up to.

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Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

06/21/2009

C-

Replete with winged undersea cave monsters, unlikely mountain climbing heroics and a mutating microbe that turns its victims into creatures-in-waiting "The Cave" is a paint-by-numbers thriller lacking in pigment.

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Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

04/29/2009

Bland, boring, conventional, cliché, and dumb...

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Becky A

@RT59308745 Jul 6

This is definitely not a boy-band knock-off version of The Descent, despite what others are saying. If anything, it compliments that movie nicely. I found the threat of infection to give this one an edge that TD doesn't have. And the acting was excellent. Loved it!

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Farah R

@Farah May 19

While it’s not on par with The Descent, it’s another entertaining cave dweller creature feature. The acting was solid and the story was interesting. The shaky cam ruined most of the action scenes though, so I’m not sure how much fun it actually was.

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Erin M

@Mightymotes Mar 16

Very good action horror! I’ve watched this a few times over the years and it’s never a disappointment.

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Miranda A

@Mirrebou Jan 18

Couldn't even finish it, which is bad since I'm able to finish every movie I'm watching.

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Daniel N

@Hotchopeppa 07/14/2025

Good fun for an old school horror thriller.

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C B.

@Synchroduv 06/28/2025

One of the worst movies made.

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Synopsis

Deadly monsters hunt members (Cole Hauser, Morris Chestnut, Eddie Cibrian) of an exploration team within a vast network of caverns beneath the Carpathian Mountains.

Director: Bruce Hunt
Producer: Tom Rosenberg, Andrew Mason, Richard S. Wright
Screenwriter: Michael Steinberg, Tegan West
Distributor: Sony Pictures Entertainment
Production Co: Columbia TriStar
Rating: PG-13 (Intense Creature Violence)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 26, 2005, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 16, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA): $14.9M
Runtime: 1h 37m
Sound Mix: Surround, Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)