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The Cave

PG-13 Released Aug 26, 2005 1h 37m Horror Mystery & Thriller List
12% Tomatometer 112 Reviews 28% Audience Score 50,000+ Ratings
Deadly monsters hunt members (Cole Hauser, Morris Chestnut, Eddie Cibrian) of an exploration team within a vast network of caverns beneath the Carpathian Mountains. Read More Read Less
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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 If the creature in Alien had proliferated like the movie’s knockoffs, mankind would never have survived. Jun 29, 2022 Full Review Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle Forgettable. Rated: 0.5/5 Sep 4, 2005 Full Review Sara Michelle Fetters MovieFreak.com 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. Rated: 1/4 Sep 3, 2005 Full Review Joshua Starnes ComingSoon.net 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. Rated: 5/10 Mar 18, 2011 Full Review Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com 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. Rated: C- Jun 21, 2009 Full Review Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed Bland, boring, conventional, cliché, and dumb... Apr 29, 2009 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member The Cave PG-13 (gore and killing) - Horror and beasts Sciencefiction Monsters Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/28/24 Full Review Audience Member This movie definitely doesn’t deserve the 1 star reviews. It definitely has it moments of excitement, and the set/filming is extremely impressive. Haters gonna hate, tators gonna tate. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/22/24 Full Review Actually I This was a really good movie. I don't know why it got such low scores. I recommend it to anyone who likes creature features. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/09/24 Full Review Georgan G An action, horror, creature feature beneath ocean caves. Either the cave is collapsing, or creatures attack, or the heroes are dropping like flies. Entertaining. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/03/24 Full Review Jeremy W I don't care about the rotten score and bad reviews. This movie is loads of fun, and compared to the horror shlock of 2021 and 22, is way way ahead in the entertainment stakes. Classic. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 12/28/22 Full Review Audience Member "Alien" knockoff in a wet cave that somehow leads to a hellscape. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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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)
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