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- 2022
- RLJE Films
- 1 h 34 m
- 2022
- RLJE Films
- 1 h 34 m
Summary Keira Woods' (Elisha Cuthbert) daughter mysteriously vanishes in the cellar of their new house. She soon discovers there is an ancient and powerful entity controlling their home that she will have to face or risk losing her family's souls forever.
Directed By: Brendan Muldowney
Written By: Brendan Muldowney
- 2022
- RLJE Films
- 1 h 34 m
- 2022
- RLJE Films
- 1 h 34 m
The Cellar
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4.6
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Summary Keira Woods' (Elisha Cuthbert) daughter mysteriously vanishes in the cellar of their new house. She soon discovers there is an ancient and powerful entity controlling their home that she will have to face or risk losing her family's souls forever.
Directed By: Brendan Muldowney
Written By: Brendan Muldowney
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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23% Positive
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
49
23% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
77% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
0% Negative
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If you stick with it, The Cellar performs a kind of alchemy on screen: turning from a staid haunted house movie into a haunted house movie with a real sense of ambition and fun. I just wish it had more interest in its female leads.
It's a solid Friday night spookshow with solid bones and a divisive finisher — harmless horror entertainment that at least strives to be better than ordinary.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 14 User Ratings
4.6
29% Positive
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 14 User Ratings
4.6
29% Positive
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43% Negative
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Another haunted house picture with all the usual symbols and equations to figure out that go along with it. Then there’s the miserable teenage girl who hates mother. Bad acting. Zero chemistry between the characters, and predictable as could be!
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Aside from the one chilling scene grafted straight from The Ten Steps and its gorgeous, historic filming location, The Cellar just isn’t that deep.
The Cellar doesn't even need to be a smarter or even more faithful homage. All it needs to be is a little more of something—energetic, gross, thoughtful ... something!—to make it compelling enough to withstand comparisons to its many generic precedents.
If horror flicks came in cans like fake spaghetti, this would be the kind of can-shaped wormy mess that would slowly ooze out when held upside down and shaken.
Like Cuthbert, The Cellar oozes with potential but isn’t given enough—or doesn’t do enough—with what’s there, creating a subdued experience for viewers.
Writer-director Brendan Muldowney is better at contriving striking images of horror, filmed with umbral gloom by cinematographer Tom Comerford, than at the character and story stuff.
The Cellar is another low-budget Shudder movie. Movies like this are boring now bit idiotic. There is a creature that existed even before life, but you can hide behind the door and escape from it. We love horror movies but not that much.
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[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Production Company
Fís Éireann / Screen Ireland,
Epic Pictures Group,
Savage Productions,
Hail Mary Pictures,
BNP Paribas Fortis Film Finance,
BCP Asset Management,
Wrong Men North,
Wallimage,
VOO,
BE TV,
WRAP Fund,
MEDIA Programme of the European Union,
NN Film P
Release Date Apr 15, 2022
Duration 1 h 34 m
Tagline An ancient evil has awoken.
