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Cellar Door

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A wealthy homeowner offers to give his beautiful estate to a couple who's looking for a fresh start. However, their dream home comes with one unusual caveat -- they can never open the cellar door.
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Peyton Robinson RogerEbert.com 11/01/2024
1.5/4
With less textbook dedication to its metaphors and more sleight of hand in its structure, “Cellar Door” would accomplish the tension it intends, but its bland approach fails to inspire investment. Go to Full Review
Dennis Harvey Variety 10/31/2024
Vaughn Stein’s thriller is too simplistic and implausible to provide any chills. But despite some lurid eventual plot elements, it’s also too blandly slick in a TV-movie mode to offer much trashy fun. Go to Full Review
Eddie Harrison film-authority.com Feb 22
1/5
…somehow Cellar Door just ends up just ruining the evening of anyone who watches this anticlimactic film….audience disapproval ratings suggest that everyone who sees this movie feels as comprehensively rooked as I did… Go to Full Review
Jeffrey M. Anderson Common Sense Media 12/25/2024
2/5
What starts out as a provocative idea for a movie soon turns into a soggy soap opera, focusing on ill-behaved characters and loosening its suspenseful grip to the point of nothingness. Go to Full Review
James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk 11/27/2024
2.5/4
has an absolute howler of a premise that just … almost … works. Go to Full Review
Rudy Valdez Willamette Week 11/20/2024
Cellar Door might not have passed final inspection without its ending. Go to Full Review
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Daizy H @Daizy485 1d Absolutely awful... How this has even made it on netflix ha s astonished me. Awful acting, cheap movie, bad story line.... And pure 1.30 hours of crap. Do not waste your time on this movie.... Save yourselves See more George S @GeorgeRates 1d A very long journey to a disappointing end. You’d think a movie called cellar door would at least see the thing opened at some point. See more Becca H @Bechoward 5d Absolutely shocking. I’ve had more fun sat watching paint dry for an hour and a half. Film about a cellar door and no one even opens it. Big royal waste of my time. It’s taken years off my life. Worst film I’ve ever seen and I’ve watched some rubbish in my life. Furious. See more Hayley M @Hayley91 5d Wow! Do not waste you're time. I've made an account just to warn others not to waste an hour and a half of their time watching this film!!!! Number 2 on Netflix at the time of watching and absolutely shocking ending. See more Christine D @Chrisdan 6d Not worth watching boring no story. See more Samantha K @Sammi86 6d Ive learnt a very valuable lesson from this film....check reviews before every single film! I took a shot...i missed! Seriously I thought id just jump in the deep end and watch a film without doing the reviews in fear of ruining it with spoilers...only thing spoiling this film was the film itself. An hour and a half of treading water only to wana drown myself at the end. Cellar door...what was in it? Why was noone allowed to open it? What was its relevance? ....noone knows...the cellar door was the entire base of this film...the films named cellar door...yet it couldn't of been anymore irrelevant to the film. Every now and then they got tempted to open it,and thats literally as far as the main character(the door) was involved. Had a pretty make over at the end with a few flowers... I will recommend this to people as a joke, or to waste their time if I dont particularly like them. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A wealthy homeowner offers to give his beautiful estate to a couple who's looking for a fresh start. However, their dream home comes with one unusual caveat -- they can never open the cellar door.
Director
Vaughn Stein
Producer
Tom Butterfield, John Papsidera, Craig Perry, Sheila Hanahan
Screenwriter
Sam Scott, Lori Evans Taylor
Distributor
Lionsgate
Production Co
Practical Pictures, Cosmic Arena Productions, Culmination Productions
Rating
R (Some Violence|Sexual Content|Language)
Genre
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 1, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 1, 2024
Runtime
1h 37m
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