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Basement

  • 2010
  • 1h 17m
IMDb RATING
2.3/10
723
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Basement (2010)
HorrorThriller

Six friends are lured to an underground basement for a sinister experiment, will they escape, but most importantly will they live or die?Six friends are lured to an underground basement for a sinister experiment, will they escape, but most importantly will they live or die?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
    • Asham Kamboj
  • Stars
    • Danny Dyer
    • Jimi Mistry
    • Kierston Wareing
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  • IMDb RATING
    2.3/10
    723
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Asham Kamboj
    • Writers
      • Ewen Glass
      • Asham Kamboj
    • Stars
      • Danny Dyer
      • Jimi Mistry
      • Kierston Wareing
    • 23User reviews
    • 10Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Danny Dyer
    Danny Dyer
    • Gary
    Jimi Mistry
    Jimi Mistry
    • Derek
    Kierston Wareing
    Kierston Wareing
    • Sarah
    Emily Beecham
    Emily Beecham
    • Pru
    Lois Winstone
    • Saffron
    Christopher Ellison
    Christopher Ellison
    • Lecturer
    Soraya Radford
    Soraya Radford
    • Girl
    Carolyn Jordan
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      • Asham Kamboj
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      Pru: What do you think... me and Derek?

      Sarah: Yeah, I think you make a nice couple.

      Pru: "Nice"? What's "nice"?

      Sarah: It was meant to be a compliment.

      Pru: We both just sort of gravitated towards one another.

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    User reviews23

    Featured review
    1/10

    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.
    • claudecarpentieri
    • Mar 27, 2011
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    • Release date
      • August 17, 2010 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Podrum
    • Filming locations
      • Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
    • Production company
      • Paperknife Productions
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    • Budget
      • £600,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 17 minutes
    • Color
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    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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