Basement

2010
2.3| 1h17m| en
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Six friends are lured to an underground basement for a sinister experiment, will they escape, but most importantly will they live or die?

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Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!
Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
Wyatt There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.
znbroxton Right from the beginning this film was confusing and disjointed. The characters had no back story or even mild explanation as to who they are, anywhere in the story. There weren't likable, to the point where you were wishing something awful would happen to them. After repeatedly running and getting lost, when we finally find out what the deal is, you still really don't come to any realisations. When eventually someone makes it's to the white room, you're told "Genetically Modified Twins"!!!! Give me a break!!! By putting contact lenses in a persons eyes, do not a monster make! You'd get more entertainment watching re-runs of "I Dream of Genie".
DanielKing I don't know why I do it to myself, I really don't. This is unquestionably the worst film I've seen this, or possibly any, year.The acting is appalling, the dialogue is worse (see 'memorable quotes' for some examples I have added), the direction is amateurish (the opening scene between Danny Dyer and his Mum is so badly framed that half her face is missing) and the sets are worse than Dr Who c. 1989. It really has to be seen to be believed - but don't. Take my word for it. It kind of sums the film up that they spell the leading lady's name incorrectly in the trailer.
panikjimma I am a big fan of horror films, and an even bigger one of English horror but this movie puts the British film industry to shame. How any money at all could be invested in such a load of nonsensical rubbish is beyond me. The plot, such as it is, makes absolutely no sense, the acting is atrocious and even though the film only lasts 74 minutes, it seems like four times that due to the boredom. All that really happens is a bunch of totally uninteresting characters walk up and down the same dingy corridors over and over again talking crap and then it ends, leaving you wondering why you wasted your time watching this bilge rather than doing almost anything else you could possibly think of. I have just taken great pleasure in cutting up the DVD and disposing of it just in case someone makes the mistake of ever putting in their DVD player. I would rather gnaw my own legs off than watch this again. Do not watch if you know what's good for you!
Lubin Odana Five anti-war protesters are on the way home from a demonstration. They stop in the woods for a toilet break, discover a strange hatch and get trapped inside. Gradually, they are picked off one by one, by masked figures, until it is revealed to the sole survivor, and us, what has happened.This could have been a good film, and early on there are some moments which have the potential to be scary. The idea of being trapped underground, with no-one knowing you're there, and no way of contacting the outside world, reminded me of the more successfully done film The Hole, the sense of being lost evoked the Blair Witch Project while the idea of being attacked by unknown assailants in darkness harks back to The Descent. The attempt to work a political issue (protesting against the war) into the plot gives the film an almost topical feel which has the potential to lift it above the usual teens in terror B movie.Lois Winstone is from good British actor stock - her father being Ray Winstone, and her sister Lois was one of the standout actors in Kidulthood. So I was looking forward to seeing whether the star quality would rub off here. She has a very small role, however, along with a poor script so it's difficult to comment. Danny Dyer is a reasonably established British actor, although he seems to be sleep-walking through this role. Neither he, nor the other male character is likable, and the minimal development of their characters does little to endear them to us. Dyer's character has a father who died in the war, and through flashbacks it is revealed that he knows more than the others about their predicament. The other male character is a dreary city boy. Both are awful boorish stereotypes - lots of "Don't worry, I won't let anything happen to you" to the females, along with boring male posturing. Are people still doing that? The three women, on the other hand are even less developed. Their role seems to be to look scared and react.Once inside the basement, there is a lot of walking around, some running around, some getting lost, some getting attacked by shadowy figures, some arguing, some more walking around, more arguing... It gets repetitive pretty fast. The characters are so dislikable and stupid: "Let's split up!" that you are willing something bad to happen to them. By the end, when the "awful truth" is revealed, it's difficult to care. If you are a Danny Dyer fan, and simply must see this, wait until this has been discounted and get it for £3. Otherwise, watch The Hole.

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