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The Beast in the Cellar

UK 1971
produced by
Graham Harris, Tony Tenser (executive), Christopher Neame (associate) for Tigon, Leander Films
directed by James Kelley
starring Beryl Reid, Flora Robson, John Hamill, Tessa Wyatt, T.P. McKenna, John Kelland, David Dodimead, Vernon Dobtcheff, Dafydd Havard, Gail Litstone, Elizabeth Choice, Merlyn Ward, Anthony Heaton, Roberta Tovey
written by James Kelley

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Near an army base in rural England, several soldiers are killed by a beast or a beast-like ma, which understandably upsets sisters Joyce (Flora Robson) & Ellie (Beryl Reid), two lovely old ladies who live nearby ... but not quite in the way you would expect, as they all refer it to some things that happened ages ago, & something (or someone) that might have to do with it seems to be walled up in the cellar (but of course the ladies only talk about this themselves, being the perfect kindness to everyone else).

& really, the 2 ladies discover that whoever it is had a nice little escape hatch from the cellar, so the 2 ladies try to close it up again, which is when Joyce breaks a leg ... & their doctor (David Dodimead) - with the best of intentions - sends them nurse Sutherland to take care of Joyce ... who almost catches Ellie when she buries another soldier who whoever-it-is has killed.

Eventually though, when Joyce, the more resolute of the sisters, is given some sedtive meant for whoever-it-is, & can no longer keep her sister in line, Eliie comes clean & tells everything aboutt he killings & whoever-it-is to the police:

Ellie's & joyce's father was a proud soldier, but then World War 1 came, he fell victim to a gas-attack, & he came back, horribly distorted & suffering from shell shock. The behaviour of the once nice man became violent towards everyone in his family. Still, he & his wife had another child, Stephen, in 1921 ... & Stephen was a lvoely boy, but his father detested him more than everyone else, & could hardly stand being in the same room with him, already making plans to wall the boy up. That never came true though, & eventually the boy was sent to boarding school. Eventually, his father & mother died, & now Joyce & Ellie took bringing up the boy into their hands ... & then came World War 2, & Stephen plans to join the army to become an officer, just like his father was ... which is when Joyce & Ellie decided to wall him up, for his own good, that he is spared the fate of his father ...

Of course, once the war was over, Stephen had been walled up for 6 years, & he wasn't normal anymore, so for his own good, the asisters decided to keep him walled up ... until now, antoher 27 years later, when Stephen managed to escape & take his anger out on soldiers his twisted mind now makes responsible for what happened to him ...

In the end, stephen of course tries to get back into the sisters' house, but is shot by army corporal Alan (John Hamill), a friend of the ladies. Only then it turns out he only came to the house to get a portrait of his father.

 

On the outside this might look like a horror thriller with a rather stupid storyline, but in fact this is a wonderfully written, directed & acted black comedy, with a rather hilarious punchline when Beryl Reid lets everyone (including the audience) in on the true, twisted story of Stephen, & somehow everyone seems to understand these lovely old ladies (of course, if you think this movie might have a slight resemblance to Arsenic and Old Lace, you are right).

A truly forgotten gem in the filmography of Tigon, that wasn't extremely rich on gems (besides thiso ne, I can only think of Witchfinder General).

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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