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Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Did you people see the same film I saw?

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Not only is this the worst horror film I've seen, its one of the worst films, period. The majority of the film is an abysmal assault on the senses, but the ugly, repugnant ending is what really seals the deal.This is a "special" kind of movie in its badness. Its not so bad its good. Its not so bad it can be riffed on (seriously, try it and you'll be hard pressed to find anything to make fun of). Like other reviewers have stated, its just plain unwatchable. I seriously question the mental well-being of anyone who found The Cavern legitimately entertaining.Let's start with the filmmaking and script, which are astonishingly poor. The film is set in Kazakhstan, even though its referred to as Russia in the movie itself and on the IMDb plot summary. I didn't know the Kazakhstani wilderness looked so much like the California desert. The characters are all bland and uninteresting, so we have no reason to care about them. Why would one of the characters go caving on the anniversary of the death of a loved one's death as a result of a caving accident? The lighting is just terrible; all the scenes in the cave are lit only with headlamps. This wouldn't be so bad if we could tell what's going on, but none of the light reflects off the cave walls since its always shining directly into the camera. The epileptic flash photography sequences don't help, either. This makes for a very disorienting experience. My best guess is they were attempting to recreate The Descent, a cave film that also used no studio lighting. Here's the difference: The Descent was made by competent filmmakers who knew how to utilize the low light levels to create suspense while still showing the audience what was going on. The blinding headlamps coupled with the frantic editing in The Cavern make the narrative almost incomprehensible. There were a couple dumb moments I was able to pick out, though. One of the characters suggests they douse their headlamps so the creature won't see them. That would do literally nothing since cave-dwelling animals are typically blind and rely entirely on their other senses. Another character suggests they split up. It may be a horror cliche, but splitting up is one of the worst things you can do in a situation like that!So far the movie has been really bad. But the ending? You ain't seen nothing yet!In the final scene, the two surviving girls wake up naked by an obviously fake CGI fire in the cave, wrapped in animal fur blankets. They find a picture from 1980 of what looks like a 10-year-old boy. Rather hilariously, they eat some cooked meat only to find its the charred remains of one of their friends. A caveman with a burnt face is revealed to be the attacker. In a confusing flashback, its revealed that the boy in the picture survived a plane crash and decided to become a caveman. How has this boy (who I assume had no survival experience at the time) survive more than a week? This raises so many more questions like how does a normal human move giant rocks by himself, see in the dark, and survive gunshots? The creatures in The Descent had abilities and weaknesses within reason, and the fact they evolved in caves was a believable excuse as to why they were so good at moving in the dark. The fact the monster is a normal human is absolutely stupid.But wait, it gets worse...Up to this point the film has been insultingly stupid and incompetent, but the last 20 seconds is where it goes from abysmal to morally reprehensible. The last 20 seconds is a blast of badly edited shaky cam and screaming. I had no idea what was happening, and I assumed he killed them. Then I looked up the plot summary on Wikipedia and it turns out that he killed one and raped the other. I went back through that final scene frame by frame and could (vaguely) make out that that was indeed what was happening.Here's the problem: you can't end your movie mid-rape! Not only does it make for a deplorable, dissatisfying experience that leaves a sour taste in the viewer's mouth, but it simply doesn't work artistically. What do most movies have the The Cavern doesn't? The answer is elevation. I have no problem with unhappy or unsatisfying endings. Films like Se7en, John Carpenter's The Thing, Funny Games, and even The Descent may not have happy endings, but they all serve an artistic purpose and give the audience something to think about. The ending of The Cavern makes me think if a rape victim saw this, the last thing they'd see before the credits is a reminder of what is most likely the most traumatizing experience of their lives with no light at the end of the (both physical and metaphorical) tunnel. I have no problem with the inclusion of a rape scene as long as there's a point. Honestly, the fact that the rape scene is the ending is what bothers me so much. I wouldn't be so mad if there was more after the rape. If, for example, the scene suddenly cut to black and was followed by a sequence of killing the beast and finding a way out, it wouldn't be the greatest thing ever but it would have at least given this dumpster fire some kind of elevating resolution. Some connection between the main characters entering the cave (which looks vaguely like a vagina) and two of the characters having consensual sex early on in the film with a dweller of the cave having non-consensual sex may be intended, but you can't just end a movie there!I rarely ever give a movie a 0 because to do so implies I can't understand how anyone could get anything positive out of the experience. However, The Cavern really is THAT BAD to me.

If you want to waste precious time of your life, then watch this movie. Stupid story, bad photography, bad acting and so on. I really wonder how it is possible, that people put money in making such a bad movie. Even that actors want to participate in it. Unbelievable... They must be the ones in desperate need for some money. I have seen many movies. Good , bad, stupid, uncreative, fascinating, compelling, intriguing, moving, and whatsoever you Can feel through them. But this one tops all of them in being boring, dull, and leaving you completely unsatisfied. Leaving you with a feeling: Did I really waste time of my life watching this??? Am I so stupid??? If it would have been possible to rate in under 0, I would have giving it a -10!! It will be difficult to find something to waste your lifetime in a more unsatisfying way. Go look for something else!!!

Heading out to a remote mountain range, a team of spelunkers venturing into a dark, unexplored Russian cave are forced to defend themselves from a terrifying evil haunting the area intent on killing anyone who comes there.This here was a really disappointing and highly underwhelming effort without a whole lot to really like about it. Among the biggest drawbacks here is the fact that there's just nothing interesting at all here in the first half here with this one filled with some of the most utterly bland efforts ever to get a movie more involved in itself. Despite it telling the story of the group coming together and how they're in this particular situation, none of this is in the slightest bit interesting as it goes more for their lame back-story that gets brought up every time out and none of it really offers any kind of enjoyment not only for it being brought up all the time but really just dragging out the first half here to excruciating extremes waiting for something to happen, then it keeps getting brought up once they're in the tunnel anyway which is just an utter bore and makes this so infuriating rather than letting it get more of a hold on who they are. Once they're in the cave itself, this one isn't any better with the absolutely infuriating technique of shooting everything with such extreme close-ups in the already- darkened environment that there's just no way to tell what's going on since we can't see anything going on at all. On top of the darkness, with the entire film covered in fluorescent lighting that gives off the look of dizzying claustrophobia by simply making for an overall disjointed affair not getting anything remotely into this one to tell what's happening as the flashing strobe lights alongside the close-quarter camera-shots further hold this one to a nigh- impossible-to-view series of action scenes that can't tell what's going on. The fact that they don't have even show off the creature at all until the finale is a huge mistake as well since we can't tell what we're supposed to be afraid of while what's supposedly chasing and killing them as the film keeps it as well as the actual gory kills all off-screen to the point of not being able to really get the kind of effectiveness out of them it really should've. This all here holds this one back as the few bright spots here are completely drowned out in this overwhelming sea of negatives as the fact that the cave itself is claustrophobic and chilling makes for a superb setting here to tell this kind of story as the fact that there's constant confrontations with the still-unseen creature makes for a fun time overall here in this kind of setting. As well, the film does get some fun out of the graphic kills when we get to see them, but even with these few positives the flaws are just so much more impactful that they end up overwhelming this one.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Violence, a clothed sex scene and a shadowy Rape Scene.

I've seen some crap-poor movies in my time on this earth, but sweet lord did this movie sucks! Apparently, the antagonist is Two-faces Russian son, who found a cave, got trapped in it, yet seems to be able to teleport throughout the cave (e.x. he goes back up to the top of the cave, seals them in, then somehow makes it back down into the cave. Why the eff did he not just leave years ago?) He is also either bullet- proof, or has mutant-like healing powers. I would guess the latter, since he can also phase through walls. Did I mention that all this "brutal" killing is just to get a piece a dat? Oh, and somehow (also not explained) a freaking airplane manages to get inside of this cave. If you want to waste an hour and 20 some odd minutes of your life, go watch a Godzilla film. Yes they're cheesy as heck, but at least they're endearing and re- watchable. Problems: Camera - Shaky cams have been done well before (Blair Witch, Cloverfield) and they've been done poorly (Monster) but throw in almost complete darkness and the almost dizzying camera becomes a confusing pain in the bum. Throw in the sequences of "shiz mah batteriez r dead" and everyone's batteries are out at the same time and you get squelchy invisible deaths (that ironically enough, one of them looks exactly the same as another shaky-cam movie, REC.) Story - None. The "backstory" is just confusing, and comes up at awkward times. The movie plot itself is this formula; Run -> Stop -> Freak -> Someone yells "calm down!" -> Batteries die -> person dies -> repeat. for the whole. movie.Positives: scenes? Belay that. Neither one made any dang sense.I'm going to go off somewhere and try to pretend I didn't just watch this p.o.s