Abigail (Meghan Adara) finds herself locked into a cell in some non-descript basement, a cell that's guarded by masked men and women - but not guarded all that closely, so she can use all her skill and versatility to break out, then sneak through a maze of corridors, repeatedly forced to duck out of her captors' sight, to make it to the exit - but once she has made it that far, she invariably runs into a masked person who gives her an injection to immediately knock her out, and the whole thing starts again whem she comes to, and again .... and again. Why is she held here? She doesn't know but in her quieter moments tries to figure out. And every time she does some thinking, she comes back to the church-run drug addiction self-help group run by Father Gabriel (Neil James) ...

The Cellar is pretty much a masterclass in suspense filmmaking: It doesn't waste a lot of time explaining the situation away or give any character too much of a backstory but jumps right in, keeping the premise simple, the stakes easily understandable and the obstacles obvious - and all of this works thanks to Jamie Langland's tight yet atmospheric direction, and also thanks to a first rate performance by ;Meghan Adara, who really manages to bring her character to life as a woman who's tough as nails and vulnerable at the same time. And all of this adds up to a very cool genre ride.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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