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The Cave

PG-13

Released Aug 26, 2005

1h 37m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

List

12%

112 Reviews

Tomatometer

28%

50,000+ Ratings

Audience Score

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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Audience Member

The Cave PG-13 (gore and killing) - Horror and beasts Sci-fi Monsters

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

05/02/24

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Audience Member

"Alien" knockoff in a wet cave that somehow leads to a hellscape.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Bruce Hunt

Director

Cole Hauser

Jack

Morris Chestnut

Buchanan

Eddie Cibrian

Tyler

Rick Ravanello

Phillip Briggs

Marcel Iures

Dr. Nicolai

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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

Forgettable.

Rated: 0.5/5

Sep 4, 2005

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Robert Denerstein

Denver Rocky Mountain News

Rated: D

Sep 3, 2005

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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

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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

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Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

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

Apr 29, 2009

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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: Gary Lucchesi
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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