The Cellar [Blu-ray]

Gives you nice Chills! I have told all of my friends that like scary movies, about this one!

They screwed up the movie with the ending.

Like the movie

No sex or nudity.Keeps your attention and interest.A few recognizable "scenes" or at least highly reminiscent of, several other ones like Cell or Insidious.Characters played their roles well.Good enough for rewatching.

The classic horror movie premise of a family buying a new, long-vacant home only to discover supernatural surprises waiting for them is here, and it takes a trip down a very unusual staircase in The Cellar. On arriving at the house, the parents (Keira and Brian - Elisha Cuthbert and Eoin Macken) and little boy (Steven - Dylan Fitzmaurice Brady) are enthusiastic, but the teenage daughter (Ellie - Abby Fitz) is unimpressed, and ends up taking an instant dislike to and fear of the cellar. Despite this, Ellie and Steven cautiously explore their new home's basement, and finds an old gramophone--the record players that had the really big conch-like piece for the music to come out--and turn it on, playing what turns out to be a recording of a long-previous owner of the house reciting mathematical equations. In the tradition of Evil Dead, this awakens something dark and ancient in the house. At first all that goes wrong is the power going out: nothing serious. But as Ellie makes her way down into the cellar to check the fuse box, with her mother on the phone coaching her, she vanishes mid-conversation. The stairs to the basement in this manor are different for some reason: usually there are ten steps, but Ellie got the misfortune of using them when there are many, many more.The police, upon being called, find nothing, no clue. The father, Brian, seems rather unconcerned, like he thinks she'll just pop up in a couple of days. The mother, Keira, starts digging into things on her own. She finds that the house has been empty for decades instead of years, and that its owner back in the 1950s had been an occult-obsessed kind of modern-day alchemist. There are symbols and equations on the like on some of the walls and doorframes and steps, and one group of symbols turns out to be a reference to the demon Leviathan. None of which answers the seemingly simple question, where exactly did Ellie go after descending those stairs?We get some freaky answers and freaky reveals in the last minutes of The Cellar. It's in here that you could nitpick if you wanted to. Some of the sights and special effects really could have used more money put into building them up, but if you have some good scenes but not a mega-budget to pour into them, what do you do? You do the best you can with what you do have, and that's what the filmmakers did here. And it works; the movie is stronger with those slightly flawed sequences than it would have been skipping them altogether. Overall, it's another reminder that, in addition to its big high-profile theatrical releases, horror has a very very deep field of relatively unknown movies to delve into. A good solid four out of five stars.

Brian (Eoin Macken) and Keira (Elisha Cuthbert) get a good deal on an old creepy house. At it turns out there is something in the basement that wants the moody teen daughter (Abby Fitz) more than her boyfriend. When she disappears, then they start to investigate the history of the house.I am not sure why one walks around with candles that easily blow out once flashlights have been invented. I loved the effect and the ending. They made counting to ten creepy again.Guide: No swearing, sex, or nudity. 3 1/2 stars

It was excellent horror movie

If you like creepy shows, you will like this one. Not a lot of blood and gore but a lot of twist and turns learning about this haunted house and the mysteries that go along with it.