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  • 2018
  • TV-MA
  • Uncork'd Entertainment
  • 1 h 28 m
  • 2018
  • TV-MA
  • Uncork'd Entertainment
  • 1 h 28 m

Summary A serial killer known as Gemini (Jackson Davis) tortures and ultimately murders his victims in the dungeon-like basement of his San Fernando Valley home. Gemini has already claimed seven victims, all of whom he has horrifyingly maimed and decapitated, but Craig Owen (Cayleb Long), the famed musician who Gemini has chosen for his eighth v...

Directed By: Brian M. Conley, Nathan Ives

Written By: Sean Decker, Nathan Ives, Brian M. Conley

  • 2018
  • TV-MA
  • Uncork'd Entertainment
  • 1 h 28 m
  • 2018
  • TV-MA
  • Uncork'd Entertainment
  • 1 h 28 m

The Basement

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 4 Critic Reviews
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Summary A serial killer known as Gemini (Jackson Davis) tortures and ultimately murders his victims in the dungeon-like basement of his San Fernando Valley home. Gemini has already claimed seven victims, all of whom he has horrifyingly maimed and decapitated, but Craig Owen (Cayleb Long), the famed musician who Gemini has chosen for his eighth v...

Directed By: Brian M. Conley, Nathan Ives

Written By: Sean Decker, Nathan Ives, Brian M. Conley

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 4 Critic Reviews
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60
Sep 13, 2018
The film actually succeeds on several levels. Long and Davis both turn out strong performances, bolstered by above-average writing by the directors. The strongest element, however, comes in Julia Hapney’s gruesome gore effects.
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Sep 13, 2018
There’s a big twist at the end, but like everything else here, it aims for a shock effect that the film is simply too clumsy and psychologically far-fetched to pull off.
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30
Sep 11, 2018
For all its vividly and realistically rendered graphic violence and gore, The Basement is an example of torture porn at its most ironic. It threatens to bore its audience to death.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
25
Sep 9, 2018
Every time you think “torture porn” is dead and gone, here comes another blood-and-bludgeoning tale to try and revive it.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Conley Entertainment Group,, The Conley Company
Release Date Sep 14, 2018
Duration 1 h 28 m
Rating TV-MA
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Tagline Two Men. Twelve Personalities. One Living Hell.
Website http://www.facebook.com/BasementHorrorMovie
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Awards

Horrorhound Film Festival (H2F2)
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Shriekfest
• 1 Nomination

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