Basement (2010)

Six friends are lured to an underground basement for a sinister experiment, will they escape, but most importantly will they live or die?

Director:

Asham Kamboj

Writers:

Ewen Glass (screenplay), Ewen Glass (story),

Stars:

Danny Dyer, Jimi Mistry, Kierston Wareing

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Danny Dyer	...	Gary
Jimi Mistry	...	Derek
Kierston Wareing	...	Sarah
Emily Beecham	...	Pru
Lois Winstone	...	Saffron
Christopher Ellison	...	Lecturer
Soraya Radford	...	Girl
Carolyn Jordan	...	Mother

Storyline

Six friends are lured to an underground basement for a sinister experiment, will they escape, but most importantly will they live or die?

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Plot Keywords:

unwanted kiss | archive footage | dungeon | betrayal | interracial couple | 

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Taglines:

In this fight of GOOD versus EVIL only the MOST EVIL will survive

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Genres:

Drama | Horror | Thriller

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

17 August 2010 (UK)

Filming Locations:

Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Box Office

Budget:

£600,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paperknife Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

77 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Quotes

Gary: How's the leg?
Pru: It's my stomach actually.
Gary: What's wrong?
Pru: It's nothing.
Gary: Tell me.
Pru: No.
Gary: Tell me!
Pru: I need to go to the toilet.
Gary: Oh. Er, well go then.
Pru: There isn't one.
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User Reviews

Appalling

If ZERO had been an option on the voting scale I'd have most certainly selected it. As it happens, ONE was the lowest available.

"Basement" has one merit and that's that it made me sign up for IMDb so that I could share with the world what an abysmal waste of time and money this film is.

What is unbelievable is the idea that someone, somewhere, thought that this thing could be viable for production and that nobody along the way was honest enough to tell the director, the producers or whoever that perhaps jacking it in would have been more dignified.

There's no danger of a spoiler because this film is about nothing. In theory the premises are interesting, not miles away from The Hole. A group of people are lost in the woods and end up in a dark and creepy basement. "Wow" you'd think, "Great!". No it isn't. This is where it all ends. The rest is some sort of tedious, repetitive, shallow, unengaging and inconsequential bilge. It goes nowhere. It says nothing. It's not even dumb. I guess it's the closest a film ever got to representing the concept of nothingness which, in a way, is actually an achievement.

Oh, and by the way, the acting is the worst ever. By far. Times ten.

"Basement" is like a Year-9 project carried out by a group of kids messing about with some recording equipment. Except worse.