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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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amirah T @RT76325151 1d READ THIS !!!! Helloooo, so! This movie was a waste of time. Absolutely terrible. The plot stirred WAY to slow and mind you..the ending wasn’t even good. It was a waste of time, I could’ve done better things during that hour or 2 of the movie. I’ve never seen something so terrible in my life omg. Then..how is he gonna stay with his wife after that?, just a terrible ending and movie. SPOILERRR, I don’t think there was nothing in the cellar door to begin with because remember when this guy said it wasn’t about Emmett, it’s about what you hide, WHICH IS when the wife hid Alyssa. See?…long ahh plot for what. Terrible movie bro 💀 See more martin S @RT48415211 Jun 1 Painful to watch , it feels like it is trying to give "The Room" a run for it's money. I guess it's for a very specific audience , the kind that reads through 15 romance and or thriller slop novels (on an ereader) a month See more A J @AJhalli Apr 12 If you enjoy wasting your time, then by all means, this is the movie for you. If, however, you expect even the slightest hint of entertainment, steer clear at all costs. The entire storyline is a complete joke and that’s putting it kindly. Perhaps the director and producers would be better off reconsidering their career paths, because filmmaking clearly isn’t working out here. It’s not even worth half a star; if anything, there should be an option for negative ratings. See more Angela S @Tiffanysw1 Mar 5 Creepy house, insincere characters, cellar door , smart couple with everything to loose, the usual suspects all show up in this thriller. It's not the best but definitely not the worst a 6/10 See more Daizy H @Daizy485 Feb 27 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 Feb 27 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 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