Cellar Dweller

1988 "It'll Eat You Out Of House And Home..."
5.1| 1h17m| R| en| More Info
Released: 20 September 1988 Released
Producted By: Empire Pictures
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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In the 1950s, a horror-comic artist's creations come alive and kill him. Years later a new cartoonist revives the creatures in his house, now part of an artist's colony.

Genre

Fantasy, Horror

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Director

John Carl Buechler

Production Companies

Empire Pictures

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Cellar Dweller Audience Reviews

Stometer Save your money for something good and enjoyable
Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.
Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews
Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
ShubhhSoni The movie is well presented & holds a really good grip while one watches it.The performances are good and the monster effects are really worth watching.The lead actress performed really well and so did the other actors.I watched a full movie after a very long time and I am no one into writing reviews but this movie just made me to switch IMDb and type my views.
Leofwine_draca A mildly amusing title and a cameo appearance from Jeffrey Combs (dressed in his RE-ANIMATOR coat, apparently, and appearing for ten minutes at the beginning before going off to cash his pay cheque) are the best thing about this otherwise appalling movie from Empire - so at least with that company making it, you can't say you were surprised. Once again the director turns out to be John Carl Buechler, who is quickly becoming one of my most hated directors of all time - sure, the man makes good special effects, but must all effects men try directing too? It's obvious he has no talent yet still he churns these movies out.The plot is a non-existent excuse to throw a few bad actors together and have them get picked off one by one by a huge slimy demon that somehow lives in the cellar due to a comic book - childish isn't the word for it. As usual for the genre, there's plenty of poor humour, false scares and naked women being menaced by big monsters. The demon is actually quite an effective-looking monster so it's a shame that its not appearing in a better movie, and it just gets relegated to lurking around in the cellar, roaring. The violence is surprisingly kept to a minimum, and I think limited to a singular bloody decapitation scene and some severed body parts. Meanwhile, the cast is made up of boring unknowns, aside from the presence of Yvonne De Carlo who enjoys hamming it up as an unpleasant landlady - whatever happened to her career?The biggest enjoyment I had from watching this movie came when I realised that it only ran for seventy-something minutes and it was nearly over. It's one of those films which you get the feeling was only created in order to make money - neither the cast nor the crew seem to have any interest in it whatsoever, instead going through the motions and picking up their pay cheque at the end of it all. This makes it nigh on impossible for the viewer to be interested in it either. A cheap, pointless, shallow piece of drivel.
gridoon John Buechler proves again, two years after "Troll", that having good special effects in your film DOES NOT automatically mean you have a good film. He may be very good at his main craft (makeup effects for horror pictures), but his storytelling abilities are limited, to say the least. Actually, most of the blame here should go to the bad script, which has no consistency or logic; for example, at first the monster (which looks mostly like a werewolf) is brought to life by the drawings of a cartoonist and can do only what is depicted in her pictures, but later it can move and kill freely and the comic book pages are drawn by themselves! At another point, the old lady that runs the mansion inexplicably turns into the monster! The mansion itself is supposed to be a place for young aspiring artists, yet a would-be private detective also lives there! Ah, forget it. (*1/2)
brandonsites1981 Comic book artist at an art colony accidently unleashes a monster when she recreates a dead artist's creation. The monster goes about the colony ran by Yvonne De Carlo killing off all the students. New World production has a good premise, neat monster, and more gore then usual, but the premise is underdeveloped and the script under plotted. The clever ending is flatly written. Disappointing effort with some good horror stars. Rated R; Nudity, Graphic Violence, and Profanity.