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If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

There is just something interesting about the deviant stalker in a horror movie, which is actually why I decided to sit down to watch "The Cellar Door". I had no knowledge about the movie or its existence prior to finding it by sheer luck in the horror section.The story told in "The Cellar Door" was adequate for what it turned out to be. It was actually, just another stalker who captures prey and keeps it in the basement type of movie. You know the type, once you've seen one you have essentially seen them all. And the storyline told in this movie was rather predictable as well.The cast ensemble in the movie was rather small, and sadly the cast wasn't putting on particularly memorable performances. And the fact that the characters portrayed in the movie were generic and non-distinct wasn't really helping either."The Cellar Door" is adequately paced which was a definite plus. However, the movie was struggling with the fact that it was just another generic torture flick.This is clearly not a multi million dollar and the production level clearly shows that. But despite that, then I will say that they actually managed to do well enough with their endeavor.This movie might be worth your time and effort for a single viewing if you have nothing better to watch at hand, but it is hardly a movie that you will go out of your way to get your hands on.

THE CELLAR DOOR is another rubbishy independent horror flick that's content to copy films that have come previously instead of offering anything new. Once again the main character is a poorly-acting psychopath (amusingly, this time around he's a chubby guy called Herman) who keeps a couple of women captive in his house. That's all there is to it.The film is saddled with awful camera-work, which shakes all over the place to little effect, and attempts to bring it into the 'torture porn' category, which I didn't care for. The acting of the female characters is all screechy and irritating, and the scripting is so goofy that I often laughed instead of being moved or frightened. The ending, when it eventually comes, is particularly disappointing.

In the genre of horror films there is a sub-genre that has been denigrated with the label "Torture Porn". I prefer to refer to these films as A.R.T. films, as an acronym for Abduct, rape, and torture.The Cellar Door clearly fits into the sub-genre of A.R.T. James Dumont plays Herman, a lonely psychopath looking for love but as with most kidnapping and torturing abductors hasn't quite figured out that you simply cannot force a woman to love you no matter how long you keep her in a cell in the basement. Michell Tomlinson, plays Rudy, the woman he has currently set his designs upon.The film is pretty typical A.R.T. stuff. Herman, however, is a collector of body fluids, parts, and waste material and keeps pretty much every output of his victims. Trimmed toenails, feces, urine, and even tampons are stored carefully by this psychopath.While, as other reviewers point out, it is true that the first victim does not follow through and ensure that Herman is dead when she manages to escape the cell before leaving the house only to be run down by him later, this really does little to detract from the film. It's also easy while watching the film in the safety on one's home, far detached from a brutal A.R.T. situation to wonder why the victim doesn't take more time to make sure the abductor is truly dead and just not out for a bit, there are two flaws in this as a script: 1> the film would've been only 10 minutes long and 2> most people, kept in a cell in a basement for long periods of time, are probably far more pre-occupied with escape than checking the pulse of their abductor to make sure he's really dead. I personally do not think the writer and director did this with any motive (as one reviewer suggested) to make women weak. It simply made the movie better and demonstrated Herman's strength.I can clearly see why Jame, Michel, and the film won awards at Shriefest when it came out. The ending was brutal and bloody which I find to be essential in any A.R.T. film. The story works, the acting works, and all in all this was a great horror movie.

This movie was an all around regular film with your typical scenes that anger you for victims stupidity. It was a non-moving story that definitely does not get you thinking anything other then where is all the psychological drama the other critics say about the victim turning the tables on the predator. The actor who plays the predator does a good job at portraying a disturbed person but overall the script lacks any deep disturbing content. I watched this movie last night and wished that we hadn't wasted our precious time (while baby is sleeping) on this film. The 1st 10 minutes of the movie is the best, it's nothing special after that....I plan not to recommend this to my family and friends, as well as obviously anyone looking to rent it. I was pretty much non-impressed with everything about this film.