5.8 /10 1 Votes
87% Rotten Tomatoes Music by Bryan Galvez
Chakra Initial release 30 October 2005 Budget 150,000 USD Editor Olatunde Osunsanmi | 2.8/10 IMDb Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi Edited by Olatunde Osunsanmi Director Olatunde Osunsanmi Story by Olatunde Osunsanmi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Produced by Terry Lee Robbins
Ioana A. Miller
Gerald A. Vitatoe Written by Olatunde Osunsanmi
Terry Lee Robbins Starring Sybil Temtchine
Mustafa Shakir Cast Sybil Temtchine, Ogy Durham, Mustafa Shakir, Andrew Caple‑Shaw, Andres Saenz‑Hudson Similar Cave movies, Horror movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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.
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Movie trailer the cavern
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.
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Reception
Allmovie gave the film a mostly negative review, calling it, "a dime-store copycat cave-horror flick that would be entirely forgettable if not for its shocking finale."