Life and death are not quite at stake when Sanctum, a modestly budgeted ($30 million ), 3D, cave-diving adventure comes out. 'It was like sitting with God at the pearly gates watching your entire life.' 'Every time he'd twitch, I wondered, ‘Oh no, what did I do wrong?'' recalled Grierson, 41, who had previously directed only one other movie. The Australian filmmaker, who made his new movie, Sanctum, under the guiding hand of Avatar creator James Cameron, had to present a finished cut to the famously exacting director in Cameron's home theatre. Soon, they are confronted with the unavoidable question: Can they survive, or will they be trapped forever?Ĭomposer David Hirschfelder creates a mysterious and adventurous score.If you think your boss is intimidating, imagine how Alister Grierson feels. With dwindling supplies, the crew must navigate an underwater labyrinth to make it out. But when his exit is cut off in a flash flood, Frank’s team - including 17-year-old son Josh (Rhys Wakefield) and financier Carl Hurley (Ioan Gruffudd) - are forced to radically alter plans. Master diver Frank McGuire (Richard Roxburgh) has explored the South Pacific’s Esa-ala Caves for months. When a tropical storm forces them deep into the caverns, they must fight raging water, deadly terrain and creeping panic as they search for an unknown escape route to the sea. The 3-D action-thriller Sanctum, from executive producer James Cameron, follows a team of underwater cave divers on a treacherous expedition to the largest, most beautiful and least accessible cave system on Earth.

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