Film Review – The Cellar

Writer/director Brendan Muldowney was last seen in action with 2017’s “Pilgrimage,” which brought viewers on a mission with medieval monks. It was an action movie set during the Crusades, giving Muldowney a shot to make as much of an epic as possible while remaining in his native Ireland with a limited budget. The feature was a creative success, but perhaps not a financial one, inspiring the helmer to limit his range for his next endeavor, where screen activity is largely contained to a single house. “The Cellar” is a horror picture, but one that tries to shake up the norm by adding an element of mathematics to go along with all the hellraising, giving it a more distinct approach than similar genre offerings. Bits and pieces of the effort are quite interesting, but Muldowney still wants to engage in a familiar manner, mounting a fairly routine chiller that offers shadowed threats and characters with frustratingly limited situational awareness. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com