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Cellar Dweller
Underground Werewolf / Ork

USA 1988
produced by
Bob Wynn, Charles Band (executive) for Dove Corporation/Empire
directed by John Carl Buechler
starring Yvonne De Carlo, Debrah Farentino (as Debrah Mullowney), Brian Robbins, Pamela Bellwood, Cheryl Ann Wilson (as Miranda Wilson), Vince Edwards, Jeffrey Combs, Floyd Levine, and as the creature Michael Deak
written by Don Mancini, music by Carl Dante, special effects by John Carl Buechler/Mechanical & Makeup Imageries, cinematography by Sergio Salvati

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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30 years ago, a comicbook artist (Jeffrey Combs) died under mysterious circumstances while drawing his latest horror comic, and rumour has it he went crazy, slaughtered a woman then set himself on fire ... the rumours are wrong, though.

Now, young up-and-coming comicbook artist Whitney (Debrah Farentino) moves into his house to finish what he has started - but the house has since become an artist colony, and the house's landlady (Yvonne De Carlo), Whitney's former art teacher of all things, doesn't really approve of her. On top of that, Whitney's arch enemy Amanda (Pamela Bellwood) has also taken up residence in the house. But Whitney remains undeterred and soon picks up where her predecessor left off - and since she's quite angry at Amanda at the moment, she lets her die a horrible death at the hands of a monster in her comic panels. What she doesn't know is that there is some kind of curse on the house, so her comicbook pages turn real, and even while she draws it, a monster actually kills Amanda the very same way in the flesh. What's worse though is that the comicbook soon starts to draw itself, and thus all other inhabitants of the house get killed as well ... before Amanda learns how to restrain the monster using white-out, then she brings everybody the monster killed back via her drawings - but when she tries to destroy the monster for good by setting her comicbook on fire, she also burns all of the others she just brought back for real ...

 

Certainly not a film that can be credited with the reinvention of the monster movie, this is nevertheless a fine example of low budget 1980's genre cinema: There's an outrageous plot, a gruesome monster, plenty of gore, and the occasional bare breast to lighten things up a bit. And even if the film does not look like a million bucks, at least the special effects and the camerawork are rather top notch, the sets are decent and it makes sense they are limited, and there's some nice comicbook art thrown in occasionally.

You might have to be into horror from roughly its period to be into Cellar Dweller, but if you are, chances are you'll find this one rather enjoyable.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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