The Beast in the Cellar (1971)
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Are You Dying, Young Man?
Beast in the Cellar
The Cellar
Young Man, I Think You're Dying
Der Keller [German]
Driven till Vanvett [Swedish]
Ihmispeto [Finnish]
La Bestia de la Celda [Spanish]
Las Perversas Solteronas [Spanish]
Le Monstre des Oubliettes [French]
O Aoratos Dolofonos [Greek]
Stigmes Frikis sto Kellari tou Tromou [Greek]
Udyret i Kjelleren [Norwegian]
Tagline(s): | A Chill-Filled Festival of Horror! |
| ...Come Face to Face with Naked Fear... |
| Meet the... |
| "And much of Madness, and more of Sin and Horror the soul of plot."
-Edgar Allen Poe |
Nomination Year: 1996
SYNOPSIS: Two old maids have kept their homicidal brother locked up in the basement -- until now....
If you put the plot elements and characters of
Arsenic and Old Lace into a blender, this might be what came out if you had committed a mortal sin and required serious penance.
Kevin Hogan
Smithee Award Nominations
Deus Ex Machina |
"Where's the Police When You--Oh." The Beast (i.e., crazy guy in cellar) is about to kill Joyce. The cops mysteriously appear JUST in time to shoot and kill him as he's strangling her.
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Worst Cover Copy |
This Beast Ain't a Seller The drawing makes it sort of look like a fuzzy Sasquatch rather than a crazy old guy. But then nobody would rent a movie called Uncle Steve's in the Basement, would they?
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"Whoops!" |
I Think There's a Movie in This Glitch There's a glitch at the start of the "you'll be dead soon" clip. It's a film glitch. It's the sort of thing you have to see.
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Directors
Director |
Claim to Fame |
James Kelley |
Also directed What the Peeper
Saw. And that's it. |
Cast
Actor |
Character |
Claim to Fame |
Beryl Reid |
Ellie Ballantyne |
British actress who was June Buckridge
in The Killing of Sister
George, Connie Sachs in the
whole Rich Man, Poor Man
franchise, and played Briggs on a few
episodes of "Doctor Who" in 1982 alongside the
5th Doctor. |
Flora Robson |
Joyce Ballantyne |
Distinguished Oscar-nominated British
stage actress who played a witch in
Clash of the Titans, Queen
Elizabeth in The Sea Hawk,
and Ellen Dean in Wuthering
Heights. |
John Hamill |
Alan Marlow |
Beefcake British bodybuilder (say THAT
three times fast!) who played Pierre in
Doing the Best I Can and
was on a couple episodes of "Doctor
Who" as Shrieve ("The Ribos
Operation"). |
Tessa Wyatt |
Nurse Sutherland |
Portrayed Georgiana Darcy in '67's Pride and
Prejudice, Vicky on "Robin's Nest,"
and Bett on "EastEnders." |
T.P. McKenna |
Det. Chief Sup. Paddick |
Irish actor who played Buck Mulligan in
Ulysses, Maj. John Scott
in Straw Dogs, and played
Henry VIII in Monarch. |
John Kelland |
Sgt. Young |
Known for small parts on "The
Avengers," "Department S," "The
Brothers Karamazov," and "The Three
Musketeers." All "group/organization-
related" roles. Hmmm... |
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