Cellar Door

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Cellar Door

R

Released Nov 1, 2024

1h 37m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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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

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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

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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

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James Kendrick

Q Network Film Desk

has an absolute howler of a premise that just … almost … works.

Rated: 2.5/4

Nov 27, 2024

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Rudy Valdez

Willamette Week

Cellar Door might not have passed final inspection without its ending.

Nov 20, 2024

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Inane psychological thriller.

Rated: C

Nov 14, 2024

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Farah R

The reviews paint it in a much worse light than it actually is. Cellar Door is intriguing from the get-go, and thanks to good acting and a shocking plot twist, it's entertaining to say the least.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/22/25

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Chris B

This was like an episode of Diagnosis Murder or Murder She Wrote, but not in a good way.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/19/25

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Iamwhoi M

ZZZZZZZZ..... The premise is, unfortunately, not the movie. This stinker is just another lame Lifetime type movie. Complete waste of time. Not a single likable person in the whole thing. Complete & utter BORE.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/26/25

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Horror fan 4

Jordana Brewster gives a fine performance in this thriller. Solid cast and good story leaves us on the edge of our seat til the end. Tim Treakle

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/23/25

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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

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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

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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.

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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