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{{Infobox film
|name        = The Cavern
|image       = Thecavern box art-1.jpg
|caption     =
|director    = Olatunde Osunsanmi
|writer      = Olatunde Osunsanmi<br />Terry Lee Robbins
|story       = Olatunde Osunsanmi
|starring    = Sybil Temtchine<br />Mustafa Shakir
|music       = Bryan Galvez<br />Chakra
|editing     = Olatunde Osunsanmi
|producer    = Terry Lee Robbins<br />Ioana A. Miller<br />Gerald A. Vitatoe
|distributor = Spotlight Pictures
|released    = {{Film date|2005|10|30}}
|runtime     = 95 minutes
|country     = United States
|language    = English
|budget      = $150,000 (estimated)
}}
'''''The Cavern''''' (originally released as '''''WIthIN''''') is a 2005 [[horror film]] directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi. The film's original title was changed by the studio to cash in on the success of 2005 films ''[[The Cave (film)|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 one and rape the other.

==Cast==
* Sybil Temtchine as Bailey
* Mustafa Shakir as Gannon
* Ogy Durham as Miranda
* Andrew Caple-Shaw as Ori
* Danny A. Jacobs as Ambrose
* [[Andres Saenz-Hudson]] as Domingo
* Johnnie Colter as Human
* Neno Pervan as Slava
* Kamen Gabriel as Vlad
* Cassandra Duarden as Rachel
* True Tamplin as Young Petr

==Home media==
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==Reception==
[[Allmovie]] gave the film a mostly negative review, calling it, "a dime-store copycat cave-horror flick that would be entirely forgettable if not for its shocking finale."<ref name="allmovierev">{{cite web|title=The Cavern (2005) - Olatunde Osunsanmi|url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-cavern-v349211/review|website=AllMovie.com|publisher=AllMovie|accessdate=27 July 2016}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|id=0451262|title=The Cavern}} 
* {{Amg movie|349211|The Cavern}}
* {{rotten-tomatoes|id=the_cavern_2006|title=The Cavern}}

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[[Category:Films shot in California]]
[[Category:Films shot in Los Angeles]]
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