The Cellar [Movie Review]

The Cellar [Movie Review] | Whenever I feel like watching a movie, I will always refer to an FB group and I realised I have not watched The Cellar.

So I dove in with no expectation at all. 

SYNOPSIS

The Cellar (2022) Trivia

• Starring: Elisha Cuthbert, Eoin Macken & Dylan Fitzmaurice Brady

• Director: Brendan Muldowney
• Producer: Conor Barry & Richard Bolger
• Production Company: RLJE Films

• Distributed by: Shudder

• Release date: April 15, 2022

• Running time: 94 minutes

• Rating: Mature Adult

• Country: Ireland & Belgium

• Language: English

• IMDb: 5.3 / 10

• Tomatometer: 30%
• Metascore: 49%
• The movie is based on the director's 2004 short - The Ten Steps.
• Most of the scenes were captured in just two weeks during the COVID lock down. 

Brian and Kiera Woods move into an old house with their two kids, Ellie, a teenager, and Steven, still in elementary school. The parents are happy with the move as they acquired the house on an auction. On the other hand, their daughter, Ellie is very unhappy with the move, longs to be back with her friends. 

On their first night, Kiera and Brian are called into work, leaving Ellie in charge of Steven. While playing, Steven discovers a hidden room and convinces Ellie to play a strange sonograph they find inside the room. It begins with a man reciting numbers, but Ellie shuts it off before he reaches seven. 

That night, as Ellie watches TV, the power goes out. She calls her mom, who talks her through fixing the breaker. However, Kiera notices Ellie continues counting in a trance-like state. Anxious, both Kiera and Brian rush home only to find Ellie is missing. 

The police dismiss her disappearance as another runaway case, but Kiera feels something is wrong. She investigates the cellar, finding cryptic equations etched into the floor and strange faces painted on the walls. That night, Steven wakes Kiera, having wet the bed. After helping him, she hears whispering from the bathroom sink—a girl counting up. She follows the sound to the cellar but finds nothing.

Kiera notices strange symbols above the doors and learns from a colleague that they spell “Leviathan,” a mythical sea creature. As she plays the sonograph again, Steven begins counting along, entranced and starts walking towards the hidden room. Kiera manages to stop him from entering the room. 

Researching the house’s previous owner, John Fetherston, Kiera discovers his experiments with dimensional theories. Later, she experiences terrifying visions and whispers in the cellar, and Brian finds animal hair but no explanations.

Kiera seeks out experts who reveal the equations might link to alchemists and mysterious disappearances in other haunted houses. Brian grows frustrated with her theories, but Steven begins seeing visions of Ellie with strange symbols on her face. 

Kiera visits Rose Fetherston, the daughter of the previous owner, who now lives at a home for the elderly. Rose reveals that her father summoned Leviathan, one of the seven princes of hell, to save her sick brother. The entity is ancient evil, not confined to the cellar but permeating the entire house. And that evil is now tied to the house. 

As Kiera and Brian try to understand the forces at play, their children become trapped by the demonic presence, leading to a final horrifying discovery that they may never escape the house’s grasp.

Will the family able to escape the same doom that has befallen other families before theirs?

MY REVIEW

What I Like:  

• I love the simple story line and its delivery.  

What I Don't Like:

• Imagine some A-listers in here, it would be better, no?

Will I Watch It Again: Not that it is not a great movie, but once is enough for this one. 

Overall: 4.0/ 5.0

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