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Two archeologists—Doctors Nicolai (Marcel Iures) and Kathryn Jannings (Lena Headey)—assemble a team to investigate a huge cave system deep within the Carpathian Mountains of Romania that they think might contain an unexplored ecosystem. American cave-diving brothers Jack (Cole Hauser) and Tyler (Eddie Cibrian) McAllister, survivalist Top Buchanan (Morris Chestnut), cameraman Alex Kim (Daniel Dae Kim), rock-climber Charlie (Piper Perabo), sonar expert Strode (Kieran Darcy-Smith), and first scout Briggs (Rick Ravanello) eventually descend into the cave together. When Strode's water scooter explodes, the entrance to the caverns caves in, and the explorers must find another way out. Along the way, they stumble across scattered equipment and the remains of previous explorers and soon come to realize that they are being stalked by unknown, but highly vicious, creatures.

The Cave is based on a screenplay written by Michael Steinberg and Tegan West.

Actually, the cave has been known about for many years. The Knights Templar built an abbey over it in the 13th century to seal the entrance as a display of "God's protective power," and a group of explorers unearthed the cavern 30 years earlier when they tried to blast their way into the system, causing a landslide that buried the abbey and trapped them in the cave, never to be seen again. Nicolai and Kathryn, while excavating the ruins of the abbey, rediscover the cave entrance.

The V.S.S.F. tattoo stands for "Verband Schweizerischer Sprengfachleute" or "Swiss Society of Explosive Engineers".

or Very Secret Special Forces?

Strode is the first to be carried off by one of creatures, followed by Nicolai. Charlie is gutted when she attempts to climb to a hole in the cave ceiling and is attacked by a flying creature. Briggs is hauled up the side of a cliff by a creature, and Alex is eaten by one. Jack is killed when he leaps on a flying creature, and an explosion causes the cave walls to start collapsing. Tyler, Top, and Kathryn make it to the surface.

Tyler, Top, and Kathryn get out of the cave by following a stream of cold water to where it merges with a river on the surface. Some days later, Tyler joins Kathryn at a table at a sidewalk cafe. He asks Kathryn whether Jack might have survived outside. Kathryn admits that, at first she thought the parasite couldn't survive outside the cave environment, but now she's not so sure. She leans forward, kisses his cheek, and peers at him over the tops of her sunglasses. "I think it wants to get out," she says, showing that her eyes have begun to mutate the same way that Jack's eyes did. She then gets up and hurries off into the crowd. In the final scene, Tyler tries to follow her, but Kathryn has disappeared.

The Cave is most often compared to three other movies—The Cavern (2005) (2005) (aka The Cavern), The The Descent (2005) (2005), and the sequel The Descent: Part 2 (2009) (2009). All four movies have similar plots and are shot in a manner provoking the greatest amount of claustrophobia.