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The Cavern

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(33)

 

 

DON'T see this movie. It is, by far the worst piece of junk I have ever viewed. It starts off fair and goes down hill from there. The photography is awful and it is very hard to to even see what goes on, especially with their new "hypershake" technique which ruins many of the shots. They use fog in many shots which obsures what is happening. Then there is the ever-present dust being raised in every shot which further obscures what is happening and also the headlights which shine into the camera ALL THE TIME. I got a headache from trying to watch through it.

Who ever did the photography knew nothing of shadow detail. The shadows had NO DETAIL, but rather turned purple so you either saw things with light on them or purple.

While the story is a little plausible, many things that happen are not. Take the movement of a massive boulder by the guy that appears at the end. Then there is the scene in the water where the attacker is shot and is lying in the water, only to raise up and stab one of the folks, then proceeds merrily on his way.

And then there is the ending which makes no sense whatsoever and we as viewers are given 15 seconds to put it all together based on about three scenes.

This one was evidently a movie with a less-than-zero budget and should be avoided at all costs. I am tempted to ask for my money back.

This has got to be the worst movie I have ever seen in my whole life and I have seen thousands of movies. If you flipped the DVD over in your player and watched the Non DVD side you will get more entertainment out of it. Whoever directed this movie and produced it should never be allowed in a movie studio again. The movie starts out as a group of people who enter a cave to explore it. It is filmed with the now famous "Blair Witch" shaking camera effect throughout the movie. The cave explorers are taken out one by one from what appears to be a creature that is stalking them. THey end up baiting a trap where the creature must have been shot about 50 times but doesn't die. At the end of the movie the creature turns out to be a human being in a loin cloth with a animal skull head used as a helmet. Explain to me how someone could have been shot that many times at close range and not die when the only protection they have is a loin cloth. I would rate it as a -5 stars if we were allowed to rate in to the negative.

If you like a terrible script, bad acting, cliches galore and the worst cinematography ever, then this is the movie for you.

This movie is dimly lit and the camera goes upside down and sideways for no reason throughout. The ending is perhaps one of the worst I have ever seen unless of course you enjoy a gratuitous and completely unnecessary rape scene to wrap up your crappy film.

If you're dumb enough to view this film, make sure you watch the special "making of" footage. It's better than the film. You get to see an actual car on fire and everything.

They explain to you how they ruined the movie by using fog in every shot and inventing a new and irritating camera technique called "hypershake" - it will make you not want to watch any further, especially in the scene where one idiot is drilling into a wall with a normal size power drill and they use "hypershake" to make the whole room quiver for two minutes.

The making of section also covers the director's daughter building a foam cave and repeatedly tells you what sort of HD cameras were used to produce this masterpiece. They managed to use an irritating effect in the making of mini-film too - they use a technique called hyperfastforward to cut from scene to scene.

Avoid this flick. Watch your plants grow instead. I already suffered through it on your behalf.

Should be 0 stars. Written in Crayola. This cheap attempt to ride the publicity of The Cave and The Descent offers nothing but dimly lite jump cuts shot on a sound stage cave set, lots of red herrings that go nowhere, and no payoff.This one will make even the lovers of the average "Sci-Fi Channel" fare cringe.

Beware this movie will insult your intelligence and your eyes
will never be the same after watching this horror wannabe that
should be rated a big fat 0.
Avoid like the plague.

I have never ever watched such an aweful movie in my life.
This movie gave me headache and motion sickness ONLY. I wish I could take back my precious two hours...

This is my first time writing a review just to warn folks to STAY AWAY FROM THIS MOVIE! Not even worth renting! No namers with bad acting, annoying cinematography and to top it off...HORRIBLE ending! This definitely deserves a negative star.

Actually, seeing this film is the spoiler. It is about a group of young men and women who explore a cave in an uncharted region of Kazakhstan.

The group becomes trapped and each member is, predictably, eliminated one by one. In the last 5 minutes or so, after everyone but the 2 women are killed, we learn that the 'beast' that has been stalking the crew is actually a man who, orphaned as a young boy in a small plane crash nearby, has been living in the caves as some sort of modern day neanderthal. It would seem his interest in the women is not culinary.

The story has potential, however the cinematography is abysmal. Visually, it's hard to follow thanks to overzealous use of hypershake, dust, fog, upside down and sideways shots, flashlight closeups and complete blackouts.

Overall, I have to concur with the others here. This film was jarring on the nerves and pointless until the last few seconds. By then it was too little too late. Out of a possible score of 1-5, I give this film a -10.

I'm not sure who to blame. The Director, the Actors, the Script, the Sound, the Lighting , the fools who put up the money for this nonsense, or maybe it was my fault for viewing it?

I spent the entire movie thinking, hmm, a lot of people got paid for this, there must be some redeeming feature.

Alas, No. It starts dreadfully and plunges headlong into an abyss of talentless groping about in the dark and never sees the light of day.

Tomorrow, I'll get up, find myself an Agent and announce to the World that I suffer from something lower than mediocrity and maybe they'll pay me a fat load of money to do Cavern II.

Dont rent it, dont buy, dont even send it to your worst enemy.

This movie was so bad I am not even going to waste my time writing a review. I will sum it up with two words BAD MOVIE!