Cellar Door

Play trailer

2:31

Cellar Door

R

Released Nov 1, 2024

1h 37m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

Play Trailer

Watchlist

Watchlist

Tomatometer

Popcornmeter

22%

Tomatometer

18 Reviews

32%

Popcornmeter

50+ Ratings

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.

Watch on Fandango at Home

Buy Now

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

Pradeep V

Watch without expectations. Reminds of a cellar door in everyone's lifes that dare not be opened, 'cause people are never ready to see what's in there.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/21/25

Full Review

Jeffrey P

Badly executed, not sure what they were going for. Started interestingly enough, but it is a familiar idea, and then it starts becoming Lifetime-ish with home painting being more of a focus than the cellar door. There was, however, some very sharp prep-work taping being done before painting... Welcome to Lowes: The Movie.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

03/20/25

Full Review

Anthony U

Sorry but this is absolutely terrible. Not a thrilling thriller, boring, mundane and a waste of 90 minutes. Could be more or less than 90 minutes, it's hard to know, my brain switched to power saving mode.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/15/25

Full Review

kieran 0

What a waste of time honestly don't watch this movie its a bland waste of time that leads nowhere

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/28/25

Full Review

azeem h

A big fan of Jordana Brewster and this is her show, Scott Speedman is as bland as always and Laurence Fishbourne gives a solid performance in what is little more than a glorified cameo. The film is just kind of meh, pitched as a horror but ends being an average thriller. Unfortunately the title is misleading as the Cellar Door has possibly only two scenes where it actually matters, the rest is just talk. That's the main disappointment that film just fails to deliver, it just flat. Even the twist wasn't completely surprising and you didn't really care. Watch for the actor otherwise very little going for it.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/26/25

Full Review

Kathryn M

Love how unusual this is, its premise should be a typical and good horror but it is ultimately much more horrific in a more plausible way. Great acting, just watch ready to be surprised. Not a regular horror but I was gripped from the start onwards.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/24/25

Full Review

Read all reviews

Read More

Read Less

POST RATING

WRITE A REVIEW

EDIT REVIEW

Vaughn Stein

Director

Jordana Brewster

Sera

Scott Speedman

John

Laurence Fishburne

Emmett

Addison Timlin

Actor

Chris Conner

Paul MacManus

Apartment 7A

43%

67%

Apartment 7A

Watchlist

TRAILER

for Apartment 7A

Blink Twice

75%

71%

Blink Twice

Watchlist

TRAILER

for Blink Twice

Speak No Evil

83%

83%

Speak No Evil

Watchlist

TRAILER

for Speak No Evil

The Strangers: Chapter 1

21%

43%

The Strangers: Chapter 1

Watchlist

TRAILER

for The Strangers: Chapter 1

Barbarian

92%

70%

Barbarian

Watchlist

TRAILER

for Barbarian

Discover more movies and TV shows.

View More

Cellar Door: Trailer 1

2:31

View more videos

View more photos

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

Most Popular at Home Now