The Cavern (film)

Infobox_Film
name = The Cavern


caption =
director = Olatunde Osunsanmi
writer = 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 = Bryan Galvez
Chakra
editing = Olatunde Osunsanm
producer = Terry Lee Robbins
Ioana A. Miller
Gerald A. Vitatoe
distributor = Dead Crow Productions LLC
released = LA Premiere: October 30, 2005
runtime = 80 min.
language = English
budget = $150,000 (estimated) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0451262/business]
website = http://www.withinthecave.com/
amg_id = 1:349211
imdb_id = 0451262|

"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".

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 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 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.

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

Main cast

*Sybil Temtchine as Bailey
*Mustafa Shakir as Gannon
*Ogy Durham as Miranda
*Andrew Caple-Shaw as Ori
*Danny A. Jacobs as Ambrose
*Andres Saenz-Hudson as Domingo
*Johnnie Colter as Human
*Neno Pervan as Slava
*Kamen Gabriel as Vlad
*Cassandra Duarden as Rachel
*True Tamplin as Young Petr