Review of The Basement

The Basement (I) (2011)
6/10
OK, but not horror, MAJOR SPOILER ALERT
9 December 2015
Warning: Spoilers
I just watched this on Amazon Prime, Horror section.

This isn't horror; it's a psychological thriller-drama with no more gore or scares than any cable movie of someone going mad and tumbling over the edge and right into The Murder Zone.

For what it is it's a fairly OK movie. But melodramatic teen junk is not for me and I resent having watched all that drama and teen angst crap waiting for something special to happen, like guts and/or ghosts and/or flying heads created by very special artists. All I got were a few cuts and about a bucket-full of blood.

Nothing special here except I didn't see the ending twist coming, which gives the movie a positive stroke. So if you like movies with a bunch of young folk stuck in a room with one person going murderously insane then this flick, and its cool-and-twisted ending, then give this a shot.

In fact, that ending makes this movie better than my first assessment, so I'm upping my vote to a 6/10. Happy watching!
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