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''The Cavern'' is a 2005 cave {{Horror}} film directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi and starring Creator/MustafaShakir focusing on a group exploring an uncharted cave.

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!!Provides examples of:

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Played with. Gannon's first girlfriend, Rachel, died a year prior before the events of the movie. Gannon and his new girlfriend, Miranda are also not among the first to be killed either. [[spoiler: Gannon is killed a bit before the climax and Miranda ends being the {{Final Girl}} who ends up getting raped by the villain Petr.]]
* ColorWash: The scenes outside blow out the color, giving an orange wash.
* CreepyCave: The setting of the film is a massive, terrifying cave.
* DisposableWoman: [[spoiler: Unfortunately a fate that befalls all three women in the film. Rachel was killed a year before the film starts and while Bailey and Miranda end up making it to the end, Bailey is brutally killed while Miranda is raped.]]
* EpilepticFlashingLights: Basically the only source of light is the characters' flashlights. And they flicker to the point of inducing seizures.
* FinalGirl: [[spoiler: The two women, Bailey and Miranda, both make it to the end up until Bailey is killed, leaving Miranda the sole survivor who gets raped.]]
* GratuitousRape: [[spoiler:The movie ''ends'' on a rape scene just to shock the viewer]].
* IAteWhat: The two {{Final Girl}}s eat some meat... and find out it's [[ImAHumanitarian man one]]. [[VomitIndiscretionShot Puking ensues]].
* MenAreTheExpendableGender: [[spoiler:The killer murders all men from the group first before deciding to target women.]]
* NoEnding: One of the most egregious and notorious cases in recent memory. At the end of the film, [[spoiler:the caveman (Petr) brutally kills one of the remaining survivors and [[GratuitousRape rapes the other]], and the film just ends right there. It may also count as a DownerEnding]].
* StrangerBehindTheMask: In the final moments it's revealed the monster was a caveman whose origins are shown at roughly the same time.
* TooDumbToLive: All of the protagonists, since they have insufficient equipment.
* TwoGirlsToATeam: There are only two women on the exhibition team. There was a third woman, but she died in a previous cave accident prior to when the film starts.

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