The Cellar

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The Cellar

2022,

1h 24m,

Horror/

Mystery & Thriller

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31%

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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

Apr 18, 2022

C-

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.

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Noel Murray

Los Angeles Times

Apr 17, 2022

“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.

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Simon Abrams

RogerEbert.com

Apr 15, 2022

2/4

The most immediate problem with The Cellar is that everybody but Cuthbert seems to have made this movie on autopilot.

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Pramit Chatterjee

Digital Mafia Talkies

Jul 20, 2023

1/5

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.

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Paula Vázquez Prieto

La Nación (Argentina)

Oct 13, 2022

3/5

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]

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Caitlyn Downs

ScaredSheepless.com

Sep 10, 2022

2.5/5

A strong, spooky idea that can’t quite make the leap to feature-length.

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Elisha Cuthbert

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Eoin Macken

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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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