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''Cellar Dweller'' (1988), AKA ''Underground Werewolf'', ''Ork'',

==Summary==


"The shape of nightmares to come!" A comic book artist is doomed to repeat history in a most grotesque way when she unleashes a demon after drawing it.

==Details==
[[File:Cellardweller 1988film.jpg|thumb|200px|right|''Cellar Dweller (1988 film)'']]

* Release Date: 1988
* Country/Language: USA, English
* Genres/Technical: Horror, Fantasy
* Setting: [[1980s]] [[California]]
* Runtime: 1 hr 17 min
* Starring: Yvonne De Carlo, Debrah Farentino, Brian Robbins, [[Jeffrey Combs]]
* Director: John Carl Buechler
* Writer: Don Mancini (as Kit Dubois)
* Producer/Production Co: Empire Pictures,Dove Corporation Ltd., [[Charles Band]], [[Bob Wynn]]
* View Trailer: ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwfNMV5ouCU link])
* Wikipedia: ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellar_Dweller link])
* IMDB Page: ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094850/ link])


==Ratings==
===[http://www.mpaa.org/film-ratings/ MPAA Ratings]===

* Rated: R (mild Violence, Profanity, and Nudity)

===Tentacle Ratings===

A rough [[Tentacle Ratings|measure]] of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:
* S____ (One Tentacle: Debateably Lovecraftian; has almost no direct connection to Lovecraft's work)

Not very much Lovecraftian going on in this movie, other than the cellar-dwelling Ghoul-thing, and shout-outs to the infamous feature ''[[Re-Animator (1985 film)|Re-Animator]]'' film adaptation.

''Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of
how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.''

===Reviews===

Review Links:
* Review by Keith Bailey at The Unknown Movies ([http://www.the-unknown-movies.com/unknownmovies/reviews/rev385.html link])
* Review by Burl Cummings at Ha Ha It's Burl! ([http://hiitsburl.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/burl-reviews-cellar-dweller-1987.html link])
* Review by Andrew Pragsam at The Spinning Image (4/10 Stars) ([http://www.thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=3896 link])
* Review by J. P. Roscoe at Basement Rejects (3/10) ([http://basementrejects.com/review/cellar-dweller-1988/ link])

==Synopsis (SPOILERS)==

{{spoiler|
A highly successful comic book artist gains inspiration from a mystical book of horrific drawings, and inadvertently summons an evil spirit into his basement studio. Decades later, his house has become a small art institute where a student goes rooting around the sealed boxes in the cellar and releases the supernatural forces trapped there.
}}

==Notes==

===Comments, Trivia, Dedication===

* In a scene where the character Whitney Taylor is in a room you can see a Reanimator movie poster behind her. [[Jeffrey Combs]], who plays Colin Childress in this movie, stared in ''[[Re-Animator (1985 film)]]''.
* All comic art done in this film was drawn by Jack Kirby (uncredited).

===Associated Mythos Elements===

* tome: killer comic book art
* race: [[Ghoul]]

===Keeper Notes===



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+"The shape of nightmares to come!" A comic book artist is doomed to repeat history in a most grotesque way when she unleashes a demon after drawing it.  (Effectively an uncredited re-interpretation of "[[Pickman's Model (fiction)]]" by [[H.P. Lovecraft]].)
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-[[File:Cellardweller 1988film.jpg|thumb|200px|right|''Cellar Dweller (1988 film)'']]
+[[File:Cellardweller 1988film.jpg|thumb|200px|right|the ''Cellar Dweller'' ghoul]]
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 A rough [[Tentacle Ratings|measure]] of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:
-* S____ (One Tentacle:  Debateably Lovecraftian; has almost no direct connection to Lovecraft's work)
+* SS___ (Two Tentacles: Barely Lovecraftian; vaguely similar in tone, could be a very loose adaptation)
-Not very much Lovecraftian going on in this movie, other than the cellar-dwelling Ghoul-thing, and shout-outs to the infamous feature ''[[Re-Animator (1985 film)|Re-Animator]]'' film adaptation.
+The cellar-dwelling Ghoul-thing and ''Curses of the Ancient Dead'' tome are Lovecraftian, after a fashion, and the movie also deliberately references the infamous ''[[Re-Animator (1985 film)|Re-Animator]]'' feature film adaptation of a Lovecraft story.  One might suggest that ''Cellar Dweller'' is a very loose and uncredited re-interpretation of "[[Pickman's Model (fiction)]]", updated from a realist painter of the gaslight era, to horror comic artists of the 1950s and their imitators in the 1980s (the horror comics of the 1950s could be thought of as a revival of the old horror pulps like ''Weird Tales'').
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 * Country/Language:  USA, English
 * Genres/Technical:  Horror, Fantasy
-* Setting:  [[1980s]] [[California]]
+* Setting:  [[1980s]] [[Lovecraft Country]] (possibly [[Rhode Island]] or a neighboring state?)
 * Runtime:  1 hr 17 min
 * Starring:  Yvonne De Carlo, Debrah Farentino, Brian Robbins, [[Jeffrey Combs]]

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 and the mysterious outer/astral dimension we might call the [[Other Side]]....)
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-* tome:  Curses Of The Ancient Dead
+* tome:  ''[[Necronomicon Ex-Mortis|Curses Of The Ancient Dead]]''
 * tome:  killer comic book art
 * race:  [[Ghoul]]

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 Review Links:
-* Review by Keith Bailey at The Unknown Movies ([http://www.the-unknown-movies.com/unknownmovies/reviews/rev385.html link])
+* Review by Keith Bailey at The Unknown Movies ([http://www.the-unknown-movies.com/unknownmovies/reviews/rev385.html link]) - "Though the running time of ''Cellar Dweller'' is a brief 78 minutes (including closing credits), imagine one of those EC stories stretched out to fill an entire comic, and you'll have a good idea on how watching this movie feels like."
-* Review by Burl Cummings at Ha Ha It's Burl! ([http://hiitsburl.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/burl-reviews-cellar-dweller-1987.html link])
+* Review by Burl Cummings at Ha Ha It's Burl! ([http://hiitsburl.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/burl-reviews-cellar-dweller-1987.html link])  - "...''Cellar Dweller'' appears to be spending most of its energies on not being scary! The monster is shown in all his glory right off the bat, and shot very unimaginatively! But the director, John Buechler, who is also the trick effects man – that’s his day job – has made the monster look a little bit like himself, which he often seems to do with his creatures, and so maybe he didn’t want it to ever be too horrific lest he be thought horrific himself! Anyway, it’s got its moments..."
-* Review by Andrew Pragsam at The Spinning Image (4/10 Stars) ([http://www.thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=3896 link])
+* Review by Andrew Pragsam at The Spinning Image (4/10 Stars) ([http://www.thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=3896 link]) - "...the film gets off to a lively start and has a likeable heroine in Deborah Farentino ... but clearly has no idea what to do with its premise."
-* Review by J. P. Roscoe at Basement Rejects (3/10) ([http://basementrejects.com/review/cellar-dweller-1988/ link])
+* Review by J. P. Roscoe at Basement Rejects (3/10) ([http://basementrejects.com/review/cellar-dweller-1988/ link]) - "''Cellar Dweller'' is pretty bad.  The movie is a B-Movie and it shows it.  The movie has a certain level of cheapness to it that it doesn’t get past.  The story, the look, and the acting all combine in a bad way to make a true B-Movie quality film."
 ==Synopsis (SPOILERS)==