Cellar Dwellar

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Ltd./Not Rated </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director.........John Carl Buechler (Friday the 13th, Part VII, Troll)</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.......Ric DuBois</B></div> <div> <B>Music............Carl Dante</B></div> <div> <B>Producer.........Bob Wynn</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer.....</B></div> <div> <B>Special Creature Effects by John Bueckler & MMI Inc.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Dramatis Personae*</B></div> <div> <B>Mrs. Briggs......Yvonne DeCarlo (The Addams Family-TV, American Gothic)</B></div> <div> <B>Phillip..........Brian Robbins (C.H.U.D. II (Bud the C.H.U.D.))</B></div> <div> <B>Lisa.............Cheryl-Ann Wilson </B></div> <div> <B>Colon Childress..Jeffrey Combs (From Beyond, Re-Animator)</B></div> <div> <B>Amanda...........Pamela Bellwood (The Incredible Shrinking Woman)</B></div> <div> <B>Michelowski......Vince Edwards (Return to Horror High, The Seduction)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Critique: Good production values. perhaps too good. There is something about an Eerie tails movie that calls for grainy film and less plastic looking actresses. This artist house is all a bit flat, but then again, if you've ever had the pleasure of meeting an artist, you might want to see portrayals of some really boring ones eaten by a slathering monster. Encore! say we. This film style has the look of a TV movie. All the gore does distinguish it although there really is some fun had with how stupid art can be and how empty-headed the artist. The dancer's "death doll dance" is a case in point. Dreadful. Indeed the film first begins to grow on you as character after dreadful character is consumed.  Possibly inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's short story, "Pickman's Model"? Wherever Combs has his fake-bloody fingers in the cookie jar, Lovecraft seems to be in there somewhere.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Plot Summary: Thirty Years ago. An illustrator works on a young woman in shredded clothes running through a dark landscape. Something approaches with an axe as the illustrator draws an axe. The beast pictured has a pentagram inscribed on its chest. He opens an ancient leatherbound volume and recites "Woe unto you who gives the beast form! To contemplate evil is to ask evil home." Suddenly, the illustrator is not alone as an actual woman is clutched in the hands of the actually animated beast. As in the illustration, the artist takes up an axe and reenters the room. He heads down to the cellar to confront the beast. The beast swats the axe out of his hand but he then grabs up the drawings and burns them, burning the creature as a result. However, he too is caught in the fire. Thirty years later. A woman is deposited at the Hrock Morton Institute of the Arts out in the country by a taxi driver (a character) who rambles on as the meter runs. He says some people had been murdered there. Whitney is met by a rather thorny Mrs. Briggs. When Whitney was a child she collected every issue of "Cellar Dweller". Colon Childress, the creator of "Cellar Dweller" was her idol, and now she wants to be inspired by the same surroundings. Briggs is against it. Another resident does work with video. The studio where Childress had created his last work and murdered a promising young musician is absolutely off limits. The first thing Whitney does is to go down and investigate. She imagines with delight a corpse-like Childress attacking his young victim. The abstract artist Phillip is taken with Whitney. During display of Phillip's work a fake holdup takes place. Amanda the video woman and Whitney have a history. There is tension  between Briggs and Amanda. That night, Whitney dreams of something coming at the house and then of someone screaming in the basement. She finds it's only one of the artists engaging in primal scream therapy. Whitney tells the screamer that Amanda was a pain in art school and had a habit of taking things that didn't belong to her. There does seem to be some sound coming from the basement and the screamer says matter of factly that it is the ghost of Colon Childress haunting the scene of his gruesome crime. She goes down to investigate. Downstairs she finds Phillip who was just trying to scare her. Whitney thinks that Colon and the girl were murdered. She then finds the chest which contains Colon Childress' effects, including Curses of the Ancient Dead, and pages stuck together with blood. "He who has wisdom wonders not of the beast for nothing in hell lives without man's consent" Phillip is apprehensive but Whitney is fascinated. Whitney asks Mrs. Briggs if she can work in the cellar. She lets Whitney move down. Briggs announces to Amanda that she wants to commission a video project. After a thorough cleanup, Whitney reads about the beast mentioned in the book--half werewolf, half vampire. She decides that the roughs Colon was working on were destroyed in the fire. She begins working as she lovingly fingers the ancient leather book, carefully copying the runes found on the cover, making the creature say the word. Amanda videotapes the proceedings, but apparently doesn't get the slathering creature who emerges in the room after Whitney leaves. Amanda goes down to see what Whitney has been working on. The creature watches as Amanda skulks around the apartment. Whitney catches Amanda and confronts her about the fellowship that she had stolen and throws her out with threats. Amanda has set up a video so that she can copy Whitney's work. She begins a video describing Whitney's supposed plagiarism. Whitney meanwhile has begun a drawing of Amanda with the creature rising up behind her. Whitney draws her slipping on a banana and trying to reach for the door knob that isn't there. The slavering beast shuffles toward her and then it's all slathering jaws and dismemberment. Mrs. Briggs looks for Amanda the next morning but she's not to be found. Whitney is a bit flip about Amanda's being missing which makes the old mystery writer suspicious. He is even more concerned when he hears that Whitney drew a picture of Amanda being attackedbut immediately incorporates it into his novel. During a performance by Lisa the dancer, the novelist heads down to the cellar to get clues. He gets a hold of the drawings of Amanda's demise and heads up to Amanda's room where he finds the evidence that Whitney was a plagiarist. He watches amazed as the videotape of Whitney's death is played out. He is more amazed when the creature shows up to him as well. The drawings of his decapitation show up as well. The creature says, "Stop me if you can". She goes up to Amanda's room and finds her drawings there. Michelowski has come up missing as well. Whitney starts threatening Briggs. Whitney finds the drawings and suddenly remembers the lines from the book. Suddenly she feels she has killed them. Next thing she sees pictures forming of Lisa being attacked by the creature. They run up to Lisa's room and find they are too late as he gobbles down an eyeball. Whitney turns to Colon's inference that the way to get the beast is to destroy its drawn form. However, she is knocked to the floor by a hand that reaches out of the drawings. When she awakens she finds Phillip is gone as well. She turns around and Briggs becomes the beast and comes after her. She begins throwing things at it but some paint falls on the beast and this makes it disappear. Suddenly she has a thought and draws the creature chained up, then begins drawing Phillip coming back to life again. The others show up soon as well. Next she throws the drawings in a trash bin and the creature burns. But should she have thrown them all in?</B></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>