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26 August 2005 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

The Cave is one of those thrillers thrown onto the screen at the end of summer that studios have little hope for -- except the hope that they might, for no reason at all, catch on. It is also the kind of film that is generally not even screened for critics, whose reactions are likely to be predictable -- predictably negative, that is. Teresa Wiltz in the Washington Post begins her review by writing: "The Cave isn't just a bad movie, it's a very, very, very bad movie, so bad that it can't even redeem itself by turning into high camp." Geoff Pevere in the Toronto Star begins his review this way: "Somewhere deep beneath the Carpathian mountains, something unholy stirs: It's an unspeakable stinker of a movie called The Cave." Claudia Puig's opening line in USA Today: "'Something's not right here,' proclaims one of the characters exploring the creepy depths of The Cave. We couldn't have said it better ourselves." John Anderson in Newsday observes: "First-time director Bruce Hunt plays too fast and loose with his special effects and editing for the viewer to know what's going on about half the time. A sense of chaos and mayhem is what he's after, and confusion is what he gets."

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