20 Scariest Underground Horror Movies: Cave Monsters From Nightmares
We are always afraid of the unknown, and what can be more scary and disturbing than what is deep below us, in unexplored caves or underground tunnels of our planet? Well, horror filmmakers also know that, so they have decided to make a lot of underground horror movies and in this article, we are bringing you the best cave movies that will get you nightmares.
Not all of the movies from our list are including caves or unexplored tunnels, but all of them are under ground. So, choose your next watch carefully, as it will surely bring you chills like not many other horror movies.
The Descent (2005)
After surviving a terrible car accident, Sarah (Shauna Macdonald) and her friend Beth (Alex Reid) are persuaded by their friend Juno (Natalie Mendoza), who left Britain in a hurry after Sarah’s accident, to come and join her in the US on a speleological expedition.
Three friends together with Juna’s new acquaintance go on a speleological expedition, which turns into a nightmare after stones fall at the entrance to the cave, for which they do not have a map, and they only have food for a few days. As the tension between the girls grows, they face another danger: a being that loves darkness and blood equally.
End of the Line (2007)
Karen, a traumatized woman, has a horrific nightmare involving a subway train. The flashback narrative plot follows her trapped in a subway. A Christian doomsday cult has been consuming and distributing hallucinogen-laced muffins that make people see visions of flashlight-eyed demons. On a texted signal, they take over services and begin massacring non-believers throughout the city, believing it is their mission to “save” the souls of humanity for God, which can only be accomplished by killing people with swords and daggers.
It is not possible to get help by calling 911, because all the phones are controlled by cultists, who also control the TV, the internet and the radio. A group of surviving train passengers and subway workers try to fight off and escape the cultists, but die one by one, leaving only Karen, Mike, and Viviane alive when the cultists are signaled to commit mass suicide.
The Cave (2005)
Deep in the Romanian forest, a team of scientists stumbles upon the ruins of a 13th-century abbey built over the entrance to a giant cave system. Local biologists believe that the cave is home to an undiscovered ecosystem, so they hire a group of American speleologists to help them explore the caves. Jack (Hauser) and his brother Tyler (Cibrian) are professional cavers who lead a team of the best divers in the world, including Buchanan (Chestnut) and the beautiful Charlie (Perabo).
They arrive in Romania with state-of-the-art equipment, including a new scuba tank that allows a diver to stay underwater for up to 24 hours, and begin exploring. But what they will find deep in the caves is not only a new ecosystem, but also some completely new species…
The Midnight Meat Train (2008)
Believing himself on the road to success, Leon’s obsessive pursuit of money leads him to hunt down serial killer Mahogany. Mahogany, the subway killer stalks passers-by at night, waiting for an opportunity to mutilate them in the worst ways possible.
While his girlfriend Maya fears for his life, Leon’s fascination with Mahogany leads him deeper and deeper into the secrets of the Underground Railroad, and eventually into the heart of evil itself.
Caved In (2006)
A group of cunning criminals takes wealthy tourists on an expedition to an abandoned salt mine inhabited by dangerous creatures from ancient times.
Buried (2010)
American Paul Conroy works in Iraq. After being attacked by a group of Iraqis, Paul wakes up in a coffin, buried alive. He only has a lighter and a cell phone with him. The time for rescue is short, exactly as much as there is oxygen.
The Phobos (2010)
On a rainy summer day, a group of young people goes to a club called “Phobos”, which is under construction and in the past used to be a bomb shelter. Suddenly all the club doors are automatically closed and the lights are switched off.
Initially, the characters perceive everything as a joke but later realize that they are trapped: their cell phones do not work and they did not tell anyone about their intention to go to this club. The goth girl Vika says that there is a creature that feeds on their fears and that they need to overcome their own feelings of fright.
The Cavern (2005)
The film is set in the Kyzylkum Desert, Kazakhstan. The opening scenes of the movie sets up the various alliances and tensions between a group of cavers. Five of them – Bailey, Gannon, Domingo, Miranda, and Ori – 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 and Slava, who the band has hired as guides, and Ambrose, who is researching a book on caving.
It can also be said that there is a ghost with the group – that of Rachel, 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.
The Bunker (2001)
Seven German soldiers are enclosed in one bunker during the Second World War. They soon feel surrounded by enemies. When they hear about the tunnel system beneath the bunker and some mystic events that had occurred in this place, they soon begin to go mad…
The Strangeness (1985)
A group of explorers surveying an abandoned goldmine are trapped in a cave in, and find themselves at the mercy of a slimy, mysterious creature.
The 7 (2006)
A group of young students is being stalked by a bloodthirsty creature, which starts to kill them one by one. Their only hope for survival is to try to find a way out before the cave becomes their grave.
As Above, So Below (2014)
Thousands upon thousands of kilometers of catacombs stretch beneath the streets of Paris. When a group of archaeologists comes across unknown bones, they accidentally discover the secret of the City of the Dead.
The journey through the darkness of the catacombs will take them to the most hidden corners of the human mind.
The Pyramid (2014)
A team of American archaeologists gets more than they bargained for when they discover a lost pyramid unlike anything in Egypt. As they discover the gruesome secrets buried in it, they realize that they are not only stuck in a trap, but that someone is chasing them.
The Tunnel (2011)
An investigation into a government cover-up leads to a network of abandoned train tunnels deep beneath the heart of Sydney. As a journalist and her crew hunt for the story it quickly becomes clear the story is hunting them.
Dead Mine (2012)
The legend of Yamashita’s Gold lures a treasure hunter and his group deep into the Indonesian jungle. Once they are trapped in an abandoned World War II Japanese bunker, they face the terrifying reality that the only way out is to go further in.
Hidden (2015)
Ray (Alexander Skarsgård), Claire (Andrea Riseborough) and their seven-year-old daughter Zoe (Emily Alyn Lind) have been living in their shelter for 301 days after escaping a disaster that changed everything.
They turned their underground shelter into a home, but they still hope to get their old life back one day. For three hundred days, they managed to avoid the danger lurking on the surface, but that has come to an end – their safe haven is no longer so safe and an unknown danger is coming for them.
The Depraved (2011)
When a group of urban explorers ventures beneath Berlin, their guide hurts himself and the group must struggle to escape the subterranean maze beneath the city.
Stag Night (2008)
Four men on a bachelor party in New York ride the subway and, along with two strippers from the club, accidentally get off at a station that closed down in the 1970s. Trapped in the tunnels beneath New York, they witness the murder of a transit cop by three transients and find themselves on the run for their lives.
Creep (2004)
Kate (F. Potente) is a successful businesswoman in London who, after a party and a missed taxi, decides to catch a train on the subway. Falling asleep at the station, Kate leaves later and is surprised when she meets her colleague Guy (J. Sheffield) on an empty train. A drugged-up Guy tries to rape her, but Kate escapes by getting off the train.
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However, the subway exits are locked and Kate finds herself trapped in the middle of the underground tunnels, whose resident and homeless Jimmy (P. Rattray) is soon both targeted by the maniacal and disfigured killer Craig (S. Harris) surrounded by hundreds of rats…
Crawlspace (2012)
A special forces unit sent, to infiltrate Pine Gap Australia’s top secret underground military compound, comes under attack from unknown forces.
