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Cellar Door

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A wealthy homeowner offers to give his beautiful estate to a couple who's looking for a fresh start. However, their dream home comes with one unusual caveat -- they can never open the cellar door.
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Peyton Robinson RogerEbert.com With less textbook dedication to its metaphors and more sleight of hand in its structure, “Cellar Door” would accomplish the tension it intends, but its bland approach fails to inspire investment. Rated: 1.5/4 Nov 1, 2024 Full Review Dennis Harvey Variety Vaughn Stein’s thriller is too simplistic and implausible to provide any chills. But despite some lurid eventual plot elements, it’s also too blandly slick in a TV-movie mode to offer much trashy fun. Oct 31, 2024 Full Review Jeffrey M. Anderson Common Sense Media What starts out as a provocative idea for a movie soon turns into a soggy soap opera, focusing on ill-behaved characters and loosening its suspenseful grip to the point of nothingness. Rated: 2/5 Dec 25, 2024 Full Review James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk has an absolute howler of a premise that just … almost … works. Rated: 2.5/4 Nov 27, 2024 Full Review Rudy Valdez Willamette Week Cellar Door might not have passed final inspection without its ending. Nov 20, 2024 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Inane psychological thriller. Rated: C Nov 14, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Donald S Watchable, with no dull moments. Solid acting. But oddly paced. For a film called Cellar Door, there's really no point in it because it's not explored. There's also very little tension and only surface level character development. The film was starting to get interesting with still many loose ends to uncover and I looked and there was only 19 mins of screentime left! It settled for a reasonable gone girl twist. But I was left thinking this would be a good series due to the slow uncovering of the plot. In the end the viewer is Left wanting and left wondering whether the director lost half the script. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/04/25 Full Review Felicia M It was a decent movie. I did not appreciate that the door was never opened and had no story behind it. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/02/25 Full Review peter r The film features a solid cast and an engaging storyline that could have benefited from deeper exploration. While marketed as a horror film, it aligns more closely with a mystical thriller. Overall, it's a decent film that offers intrigue and suspense, even if it doesn't fully delve into its potential depths. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 12/31/24 Full Review Wendel L Direção: Ok Atuação: Bom Roteiro: Bom Caracterização: Ok Soundtrack: Ok Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 12/30/24 Full Review Sean H Some people probably will feel shortchanged by this film, but I enjoyed it for what it was Rated 3 out of 5 stars 12/29/24 Full Review Bonnie Johnson B Let’s start with the purchase or rental options. On Amazon Prime you can rent this high ranking film for $5.99, OR purchase it to have forever…for $6.60! If you can decide the best option for yourself and your brag worthy movie collections, I would strongly consider a purchase over a lease like this offer any day of the week! If you can get past the low bar that already sums up the expectations that this outlet has set, then you already know don’t do either! There’s one review that states that everyone else is the problem because it’s not a mysterious, haunting and nail biting film, but rather a metaphorical story about our seduction with comfort and stability that is the real monster in this film. As another review writer beautifully illustrates the most important detail of the film…the ending credits where the name of one of the characters with some significance name isn’t even the name of the character…what else do you need to know? When the ending credits get screwed up, it’s life imitating art. Extremely lackluster and rather would be doing anything else than the one job that you have to do in order to make a living and earn a means for comfort and stability. I knew better than to save the $0.61! Yet I wasted 98 minutes of my life that I will never get back… plus $6.61. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 12/26/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A wealthy homeowner offers to give his beautiful estate to a couple who's looking for a fresh start. However, their dream home comes with one unusual caveat -- they can never open the cellar door.
Director
Vaughn Stein
Producer
Tom Butterfield, John Papsidera, Craig Perry, Sheila Hanahan
Screenwriter
Sam Scott, Lori Evans Taylor
Distributor
Lionsgate
Production Co
Culmination Productions, Cosmic Arena Productions, Practical Pictures
Rating
R (Language|Some Violence|Sexual Content)
Genre
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 1, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 1, 2024
Runtime
1h 37m
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