The Cellar (2022) is a full-feature adaptation of an older short film. The latter is available on YouTube, it's simple and moderately effective.
It feels like an ambitious undertaking to bring such a short and simple story to a full-feature length. I can't say they have succeeded.
There are two significant problems with this film:
1) The time in the beginning that should've been used for character introductions just wasn't there. They rush straight to a scary cellar.
2) Since there was no build-up, the middle part got too long and featured the same scenes repeatedly with no progression.
I did enjoy the ending, though. It just goes completely off the rails. I still have no idea what the point was with all those numbers and counting. It looks like it was just color, never really adding up (pun intended) to anything.
This is the first time I have seen Elisha Cuthbert act in a long time, and now she plays hide&seek with Baphomet, shuts doors on it, and hits it with a flashlight. This is surreal.
Overall: nice (although basic) atmosphere, empty, senseless mystery, only one real character.
Film's achievements: parents of the year, Baphomet hide and seek.
It feels like an ambitious undertaking to bring such a short and simple story to a full-feature length. I can't say they have succeeded.
There are two significant problems with this film:
1) The time in the beginning that should've been used for character introductions just wasn't there. They rush straight to a scary cellar.
2) Since there was no build-up, the middle part got too long and featured the same scenes repeatedly with no progression.
I did enjoy the ending, though. It just goes completely off the rails. I still have no idea what the point was with all those numbers and counting. It looks like it was just color, never really adding up (pun intended) to anything.
This is the first time I have seen Elisha Cuthbert act in a long time, and now she plays hide&seek with Baphomet, shuts doors on it, and hits it with a flashlight. This is surreal.
Overall: nice (although basic) atmosphere, empty, senseless mystery, only one real character.
Film's achievements: parents of the year, Baphomet hide and seek.