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The Cellar

Play trailer 1:52 Poster for The Cellar Released Apr 15, 2022 1h 24m Horror Mystery & Thriller Play Trailer Watchlist
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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.
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Although it doesn't tumble to The Cellar of the haunted house genre, this is a mostly musty exercise in second-rate supernatural horror.

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Richard Newby AV Club What made the short film so effective—the universality of a concept that reaches back to our primitive fears of the dark—Muldowney trades for a baggy foray into paranormal activity bookended by two strong short films. Rated: C- Apr 18, 2022 Full Review Noel Murray Los Angeles Times “The Cellar” really works best as a metaphor about parents who can only watch from a distance as their children get consumed by the adult world’s savage cynicism. Apr 17, 2022 Full Review Simon Abrams RogerEbert.com The most immediate problem with The Cellar is that everybody but Cuthbert seems to have made this movie on autopilot. Rated: 2/4 Apr 15, 2022 Full Review Pramit Chatterjee Digital Mafia Talkies If you are easily scared and want to dip your toes into the horror genre, The Cellar is probably a good place to start. If you are somewhat of an expert at watching horror-based IPs, maybe give this a pass and seek out better films. Rated: 1/5 Jul 20, 2023 Full Review Paula Vázquez Prieto La Nación (Argentina) Bares all the gothic offerings austerely: tension between science and the occult; darkness as a representation of Evil; space as an architectural likeness of those who inhabit it. Well-known iconography, but in the end, it works. [Full review in Spanish] Rated: 3/5 Oct 13, 2022 Full Review Adrián Monserrat EscribiendoCine Unoriginal but tense, this is a horror story that manages to be both traditional and immersive. However, when you lift the veil, it's empty and it lacks potency. [Full review in Spanish] Rated: 5/10 Oct 10, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews

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Anna K There is no horror without characters to horrify. What passes as characters in this movie are not just cardboard cutouts, but cutouts half-heartedly animated by the ghosts of actors who wish they had a better film to haunt. And who can scare a ghost? Well, not this movie. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 11/19/24 Full Review Bunny K I personally loved the movie. Great actors and actress! The mom did everything in power to find her daughter, the dad did his best to help, however it does show that sometimes parents don't know there kids and that can be bad. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/15/24 Full Review Jessica E This got outright laughable the last 20-30 minutes. There’s some good ideas in there somewhere but the execution is poor. Elisha Cuthbert elevates this “film” a bit and she does a good job with what she was given but that’s the best that can be said about this movie. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 07/13/24 Full Review Ricardo d Confesso que o começo parecia ser um ótimo filme, mas dai o roteiro patina muito e no fim temos uma situação que era de se esperar. Ou isso torna o filme chato, ou as atuações que deixam as personagens rasas e portanto não queremos torcer por elas. Uma pena. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 06/15/24 Full Review Dan R Shudder's investment back into the industry in recent years has meant the production of many new horror films. One of which is 2022's 'The Cellar'. SYNOPSIS: 'Keira Woods' 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.' This film does feel like 'horror for beginners' and has the basic jump scares you'd expect from a middling film of the genre. For myself though, it felt a bit like Groundhog Day. We've been here before and we've seen all the tricks time and time again. However, ignoring all of that, this isn't a bad film at all and it's nice to see Elisa Cuthbert back on our screens. She's no longer the disobedient teen from '24' so it feels a bit odd seeing her play a mother here. Especially to a teenager. She does a decent job with the film as a whole and maybe she's found a genre she's great at working within. More please. In regards to the story itself, well once we know it's some sort of alchemical math bringing a demon into play then all bets are off. Things pick up and get a bit crazy. Chuck a bit of true mythos in there and I'm all in. Although 'The Cellar' feels like we're treading old ground this is a compelling horror film which delivers an ending of despair and dread. 7/10 Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 04/24/24 Full Review Peter w It went nowhere.no explanation of how you get in or out Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/11/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis 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.
Director
Brendan Muldowney
Producer
Conor Barry, Richard Bolger, Benoit Roland
Screenwriter
Brendan Muldowney
Distributor
RLJE Films
Production Co
Hail Mary Pictures, Epic Pictures, Savage Productions, Wrong Men North
Genre
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Apr 15, 2022, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 15, 2022
Runtime
1h 24m
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