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Indeed, The Cave is no more than an Alien-styled monster movie with a novelty setting (a network of underground caverns). The Cave makes good use of the Creatures Lurking in the Dark monster movie formula as patented by Alien (1979). The film also seems to go to great lengths to make the use of equipment used by the party seem authentic.
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Viewing the film on the big screen would have been an undeniably impressive experience – the camera makes full use of the caverns and there are some superbly photographed scenes of the divers exploring their depths by torchlight. I never had the opportunity to see The Cave in theatrical release and was forced to watch it on DVD. The Descent featured an all-woman cast but managed to eschew any opportunities for titillation by contrast, The Cave casts the film with mostly male actors that have been chosen for their handsome good looks. Where Neil Marshall built The Descent around a tight ensemble of women characters, The Cave by contrast seems built around pumped-up machismo – its focus is as much on the adventure sports side of the film (the potholing, the diving, the abseiling and rock-climbing scenes) as it is the monsters. Like The Descent, The Cave also has a plot element where the party is dependent on a leader who has gone off the rails and is starting to demonstrate flawed judgement. The two have almost identical stories about a potholing party being stalked by creatures that can see in the dark.
It is interesting to compare The Cave to the much more successful The Descent. Exploring the underground cave network – (l to r) Eddie Cibrian, Rick Ravanello, Lena headey and Piper Perabo The film was shot on location in an extensive real-world cavern complex in Romania. The script was a collaboration between actor Tegan West and Michael Steinberg who had previously been a director with the quite good The Waterdance (1992) and the thriller Wicked (1998), as well as producer of the Farrelly Brothers There’s Something About Mary (1998). The Cave was the feature film debut of the Australian Bruce Hunt who previously worked as a commercials director and directed second-unit on The Matrix (1999) and sequels. The surprise among these was The Descent, which was made with only a $3.5 million budget but ended up gaining enough word of mouth that it became a major international release. The very low-budget The Cavern/Within and Caved In (2006) went directly to dvd. The Cave was made with a $30 million budget and given a major theatrical release, although only earned a paltry $6.5 million in its opening weekend. These included The Cave, Neil Marshall’s grippingly good The Descent (2005) and The Cavern/Within (2005), as well as to some extent the fine Creep (2004), which was set in the London Underground. 2005 offered a mini fad of monster movies about potholers encountering creatures underground.
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