The Cavern



The Cavern (originally released as WithIN) is a 2005 American horror film directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi. The film's title was changed so it can compete with and cash on the success of other 2005 cave films like The Cave and The Descent.

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 Bailey and rapes Miranda (yes, that's seriously how the film ends).

Why It Sucks

 * 1) Every single character is completely unlikable; even Peter, for being the villain of this film, ruins any chance of likeability at the end for brutally killing Bailey and raping Miranda for the film's cheap excuse of an ending.
 * 2) Incompetent direction. Sometimes, the shots will turn upside down without warning for no other reason than trying to recreate what it's like to be in a cave, but then there are times where the actors shine their headlights straight at the camera constantly throughout the film, unintentionally causing seizures.
 * 3) The film is so dark (granted, it was shot in an actual cave, but still) that it's hard to see what's going on.
 * 4) The plot makes absolutely no sense.
 * 5) The group's campfire is obviously poor CGI.
 * 6) The fact that the film ends in the middle of a rape scene, completely changing it from being "just bad" to "virtually irredeemable and unwatchable".