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I was immediately struck by The Basements low IMDB rating and after watching it I can entirely understand now.

It tells the story of a man kidnapped by an infamous serial killer, but this psycho doesn't just kill his victims he instead role plays with them under the guises of a multitude of characters.

This makes for oddly awkward viewing, this is very uncomfortable stuff and certainly not for the faint of heart. Arguably this is less of a thriller/horror and more of a torture porn type film.

Starring Mischa Barton the movie has a cast who deliver decent performances but the movie feels less like a story and more of a snuff film. This is not pleasant and I'm sad to say doesn't ultimately go anywhere or deliver at the end.

These films are niche, I'm not the target audience but when done right they can be clever, intelligent well constructed movies! This, is not.

The Good:

Strong performances

The Bad:

Awkward viewing

Some high grade stupidity

No real plot

Found this little gem on netflix and didn't think much of it. Yes, the beginning is slow and the acting feels wooden but IT GETS BETTER. The ending was brilliant. And the way the killer offs his victims? Creative af. I love it. Definitely worth a watch.

This is one of the most boring films I have seen in a long time.

Any sense of wonder or suspense disappears after a few minutes because the story is predictable and just plain stupid.

The only reason I gave this two stars is for the acting, which was reasonable considering everything else.

Watch five minutes at the start, and five minutes at the end, and that is the whole story worth giving time to.

There seems to be a recent trend of low budget movies where the "action" takes place in one room/location and is focussed on 2 main actors for virtually the entire 90 minutes. This is one of those movies.

It's fair to say there isn't really much of a plot. In fact, the entire movie is a bit like watching two students in a method acting class being held in a dimly lit room. While there is an element of torture horror, it is very predictable and adds nothing to the "plot". If you're a gore fan, you will be disappointed.

Sadly, Mischa Barton's total screen time amounts to around 5 minutes of cutaway scenes - I'm guessing she turned up on set for no more than a couple of hours at most as a favor to the director.

In summary, if you enjoy serial killer movies, you will have an infinitely more enjoyable experience watching old episodes of Criminal Minds.

There was some promise here in 'The Basement'. It had a cool poster/cover, a somewhat intriguing if very derivative premise and as someone with a general appreciation for the genre it fits under. That it was low-budget, which from frequent personal experience is rarely a good sign due to that there are so many poor ones out there (though there are decent to good ones as well), made me though apprehensive.

It is sad though that any potential it had is completely squandered, with every flaw in the book made and everything that annoys me watching a film present. 'The Basement' is really bad, with so many huge flaws, any potential that it had completely disappears in translation. There is little good here in 'The Basement', it is not irredeemable but goodness doesn't it come dangerously close to being.

The only redeeming merits being the spooky setting and the creepy acting for the killer.

Going further on to the negatives, the story does feel over-stretched and the more it progresses the film became duller, more predictable, more senseless and less unsettled and never gaining momentum. All the characters are too sketchy, even the killer and with cardboard thin and colourless personalities and with nowhere near enough to make one want to endear to them, all of them coming over as incredibly irritating to the extent you don't want them alive. Their annoying and illogical decision making and behaviours frustrates. The chemistry is bland and unfocused.

The sound quality is obvious and utilised cheaply (being too loud in the build ups and people's reactions), and the rest of the acting is lacking severely on the whole, that's actually an understatement as the worst of it is horrendous. Despite being top-billed Mischa Barton is not in it much, barely in it, and one doesn't miss her much. There is no sense of horror or engagement with the awful predicament they're in, and no connecting with the character, it just reeks of indifference which makes the viewer not care less too.

Dialogue can be stilted and rambling while the pace and film drags on forever, apparent from the very start, which is so bad that one seriously considers not continuing. Only did it myself for fairness sake, being a person who never judges a film without watching the whole thing and never bails on a film regardless of any temptation. Found too many of the supposedly shocking moments not surprising or scary and the atmosphere dreary, due to the excessive obviousness, too many confused moments and explanations and the complete lack of tension and suspense. Thrills are none, thanks to stodginess and excessive over-familiarity, and found myself never invested in what was going on, due to it being so dull and static.

A lot of 'The Basement' has really dull and going nowhere plot elements and often nonsensical and confusing character motivations, while too many of the things to make you shocked are far from creative or unsettling. Any attempts at twists fail to surprise.

Nothing frightens, there is no development and it's very predictable, while everything is unimaginative and are more odd than scary, completely failing to show any sense of dread. There is nothing interesting or illuminating. The direction is leaden, got the sense their heart was not in it, and the music is ill-fitting. 'The Basement' is very amateurish visually, too drearily lit and shows no care in the way it's shot, severely compromising any coherence. The editing is all over the place.

Altogether, very, very bad. 2/10 Bethany Cox

This film is so boring.

I forced myself to keep watching just to see if anything interesting happened in the end. It did not.

Poor acting. Poor story. It was comical at times just how bad it was. I assume we are supposed to get some fantastic insight in to the killers mind, but the whole thing was pointless.

To be honest, I don't get the hate on this movie. It isn't *that* boring; it isn't *that* poorly acted. I could've easily skipped this movie, as it didn't really impact the way I rate movies, but I did find myself laughing at times. The directing was poor, and the main character's acting was sub-par, but I'd still give the movie 5.6.

Seing movies like this one makes you feel that something was stolen from you. I feel the time I spent watching this sick junk was stolen from me and I want that time back. Misha Barton is one of those actors who makes you think of those silent era actors who didnt fit in when the sound came because of their voice. Her voice just doesn´t fit with her looks. Jackson Davis actually did a good performance here though.

Surely there was enough budget to ask literally ANY English person to confirm that the accent sounded English! Don't they have voice coaches and the like over there?!

It seems so many on here are like infants wanting a movie they can't use their brain with a bunch of flashy scenes and butchered stories that makes no sense like a Disney movie well sorry this isn't that. I gave this movie a 6 plus two stars to help make up for the fake reviews.

Well after starting this movie I scrolled through the reviews and was a little hesitant about continuing to the end! It wasn't as bad as many of them made it out to be, some good acting in parts but for those saying they couldn't see the ending coming...that was as predictable as me saying I'm not going to drink today and then cracking open a beer!

The movie's first scene sets the tone of the movie - bad acting. It goes into "action" early on without dillydallying but unfortunately instead of being creepy and unsettling it feels just boring and straight-out stupid. The build up falls flat and not even the supposed torturing (which there isn't much of) doesn't save this movie to be worth watching. The gory parts are clearly fake, which is fine with some movies however for this one it just added to "can't do anything right".

When I first read the plot of this I didn't notice the tag-line pointing to 12 personalities but it became clear quite fast. The entire premise of 12 personalities feels extremely inorganic with all the "personalities" being clear roles played up. Any feel of true insanity is nowhere to be seen and leaves much to be desired.

I honestly didn't predict the last moments - but even that was completely ruined by having to literally spell out the situation in case anyone was stupid enough to not catch what was implied.

Don't waste your time, one of the few movies making me wish I could get back the time I spent. While it's not one of the ones I actually dropped watching (which are less than 10 from the abundance of movies I've seen over the years) I was seriously considering turning it off almost halfway through.

Terrible movie. Way to much talking. I fast forwarded most of it because it was just boring. It was like a knock off version of "Split" Sad I waisted $1.50 to rent it.

I can't believe no one has thought of this idea before! It's absolutely stunning in concept and perfectly executed! They've achieved the perfect torture movie by turning it on its head and making the film ITSELF pure torture for the poor soul stupid enough to watch it!

To achieve this brilliant goal they pulled no punches and really went for it with the worst dialogue, most cringe worthy acting, characters so unbelievable and moronic you just can't take it, and to top it all off, the cherry on top.... it's so boring I wanted to strap myself to a chair and have someone torture me just for something to do.

This film dosent deserve 3.7 stars. Its better than that. A not half bad thriller. I thought the cast all did a pretty good job Jackson Davis being the crown to this and how he played out with his characters . And with a twist you won't see coming but makes it just that bit better 6.00 stars

The writing can be a lot better. It's not worth the time. Typical low budget movie.

If you look at the member reviews many of you wouldn't even bother giving this movie the slightest chance, however if your read the critic reviews you'll find most critics not only liked it but had many compliments about it. Although you need to make it through the first 15 minutes before starting to see the entertainment value of the flick, just stay with it.

I hope it changes but I am starting to see member reviews become far and far less reliable, as if through organization it's being an outlet to attempt to shame movies to detour views in response from angry people for example someone who may have been dropped or replaced for a part in the movie, ect.

It's low budget and not much gore. However I think it does the torture well and keeps it entertaining. If you're watching in order to see an extended torture scene with a bit of quirkiness and not to over the top in gore then this is perfect. I had a lot of fun. If you're watching purely for over the top gore, I guess this could still be ok but maybe a little boring. If you're watching it as a thriller - plot/twists/ect. then you will be bored. in terms of plot they have no plot.

Yes i did give this movie a 4/10...to be far the acting of the two main characters in the basement was quite good...and the gory scenes were pretty good too.

However!

That's it! it was a drawn out waste of time and pretty stupid story line.

Don't waste your time on this movie, there are better ways to spend your time and better movies.

Plainly put, this film (as mentioned in the title) was pretty boring. I don't usually go into a film "blind" as in without watching a trailer for it 1st but I kinda wish did for this as it might have saved me 1hr 25mins of sheer boredom. Five minutes in and I already had reservations about it, but I stuck with it to give it a chance in the hope it would improve.

It did not.

It didn't get worse, but it definitely didn't get any better.

The acting is mediocre at best, but I will say that the best of a bad bunch was Jackson Davis as Billy who did a fairly decent job with all his "personalities". Although it probably wasn't that hard to be a stand out amongst the rest of the actors, and I don't know why Mischa Barton got such a prominent mentioning, as she was bland, uninteresting and soulless throughout the film.

The film is littered with the usual cliché's that you'd expect to see in a kidnap/torture film as well, which I guess is to be expected but you always live in hope. As for the twist at the end. Meh. It didn't make my jaw drop, but was a mediocre part of the movie that made it just a smidge better.

Take my advice and give this a miss. I know films, like any other art form, is subjective, but how anyone could rate this so highly is merely baffling. Just proves that there's always something for everyone, I guess.

Also, who the Hell takes a Lamborghini to go to the store as well?!