Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Paynbob It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

cobbler88 First, there is nothiabout this movie that is a take-off on Blair Witch Project. Some have cited the shaky camera. Those who did are obviously 30 or younger because the rest of us are aware that cameras were being shaken LONG before BWP. If they were taping themselves, it might be different , but they were not.Second - and this is responsible for most of the ludicrous things in this film - it's just not plausible that this could happen this way. Pretty much everything - from failed escapes to deaths - rely on the concept that someone scrounging for sustinance in a cave could grow very large, possess superhuman strength and pretty much dodge or be impervious to bullets.There just isn't enough food available for this to unfold this way. A person would use almost every waking moment looking for food. I'll grant that a person in a cave could grow strong, but not to the point where he could move things that multiple people could not move back. He'd more likely weigh about 140-160 and have corresponding strength. This could have been a decent flick but it was just too ready to insult the audience.

Robert Klaric I'm not that much of an avid fan of horrors to have watched so many of them, but this one falls so easy into category of one of the worst three horrors I've seen in my whole life.Last few years with blooming of different horror types and genres, especially in department of "japanese horror remakes", a new small sub genre also appeared, so called "cave shriekers" so to speak. Caves are naturally a dark, claustrophobic and eerie places and if you take that and put it into premise of something unknown, dangerous, malicious lurking in the darkness - this usually means a basis for a good horror.Recent movies that exploited this idea were "The Descent" and "The Cave" and now (quite originally named) "The Cavern" follows same footprint. While "The Descent" was one hell of a edge-of-the-seat scary masterpiece, and also "The Cave" wasn't so bad after all - the latter of the three is not even a shadow of what a good horror should be.The Cavern is so predictable and utterly poorly directed you really can't get any chills or goosebumps even in bloodiest of scenes. Director and the crew tried (and failed) to cover it's low-budget origin with some hand-held shots a la Blair Witch Project and general poorly lit scenes often devoured by darkness. In the end it amounts to bunch of people running and screaming most of the film through corridors of cave you can't see, while occasional light from the lamp flickers in a way to cause you epilepsy and hand held camera tries it's best to strengthen the feeling of nausea.It's one thing to try to be minimalistic and experimental developing the scariness factor but here we have no substance nor surprises waiting around the corner, you just know every time when someone is about to die. The end would be disappointing (where cannibalism part isn't horrific in any way, just plain repulsive) if the whole movie wasn't already abundantly disappointing.To keep it short, try to watch chilling and memorable "The Descent" instead of "The Cavern", this is just the type of badly written and executed movie that causes flatline and annoyance at best, instead of adrenaline type of fear all true horrors should evoke.One to avoid.

rixrex Good thing I only paid $1 for this at the Big Lots! What a rotten example of a cave movie, or perhaps it could be said, a good example of how to NOT do a cave movie.The comment from the spelunker notwithstanding, the fact is that a MOVIE about a CAVE has to have more than the glare of lamps in our face to be appreciated. There has to be a minimal amount of back-lighting in order for us to see the activity. Not only did this trash have no back-lighting at all, it barely had any lighting upon the subjects and too often they were shot in close-up even during action scenes, leaving me to speculate as to what actually happened.While this technique is useful in keeping the hideous beast hidden from view, to use it for nearly all scenes is just ridiculous. Those who wish to see a cave as it would actually appear to an explorer, you only need to go into one yourselves. That's reality, but this was supposed to be a movie that could be watched and understood. It wasn't.Do yourself a favor and stick to The Cave and Descent for some good underground thrills.

Der_Schnibbler I am very disappointed with this movie and I'll tell ya why.Right until the last ten minutes or so, we are treated to a painfully obvious setup of "team go into dangerous situation and face monster," replete with the lame little "personal past dealing" among some of the generic characters.To the writer's credit, while Hollywood dishes out tons of crap like this and makes every character an idiot wisecrack, this film actually attempted to be serious.Secondly, the acting wasn't particularly good, Mustafa Shakir being the weakest of all, though the women did do a good job of acting terrified -- that is, until it became annoying.But that is not why I am disappointed! Oh, no.You see... I was perfectly content to accept the film for what it was and enjoy it just the same. After all, it's not like it was not entertaining. Not to mention bloody. Oh, boy, do you see lots of blood. It's gratuitous but unsensationalized, which just makes it so... morbid. Great move. The only exception is one over the top close up on a dismembered body (I think the director had a Fulci moment, there), other than that the gore was used perfectly.And then we come to the disappointment.WHY did the director decide to throw a twist in this film's last ten minutes which took it from the status of run-of-the-mill "group of people getting picked off" fare to something truly and deeply disturbing -- then END it? Folks, I don't want to give away spoilers, but the plight of the surviving characters is just horrific. The more you think about it, the more you get that piercing feeling in your stomach. It's just... boy, what can I even tell ya.If only the writer (and director) could have created that SAME sense of darkness, that spiritual bleakness, that bloody unrelenting sense of helplessness... through the ENTIRE film, this could have been a great one. A truly great one.Instead, it's a generic b-movie with a typical situational plot which shows a brief spark of brilliance at the very end, then reverts to its bland state.What a crime.For the record, it's worth watching still.