Hey what's up guys. Today I'll show you a supernatural horror film: "The Cellar"!
Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care! The movie begins with the Woods family
moving into an old-fashioned estate. Kiera and her husband, Brian, couldn't pass up on
a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and bought the house in an auction. They thought it was
a good investment and good for the family. On the day of the move, the couple arrives in two
separate cars. Brian arrives first together with their son, followed by Kiera with their eldest
daughter, Ellie. The daughter hated the fact that she was now living far from her friends.
Almost immediately, Ellie shows her discontent, and finds the place creepy with all the paintings,
despite its large space and subtle antique tone. On the other hand,
their youngest son, Steven, loves their new home. The young boy is optimistic about the move,
and finds their large new house appealing. Later, the father, Brian, continues to
show them around the house, hoping to get a favorable response from his daughter. Instead,
Ellie is curious about the door that leads to the cellar. She proceeds to check it out together with
her family, but there's nothing in it. It's just an empty and dusty cellar, or so they thought.
On the way out, the cellar door suddenly closes, leaving Ellie locked in. Brian tries the door
knob; but for some reason, it won't open. The teenage girl starts freaking out when she looks
back, and feels a presence. On the other side of the door, Kiera sees an old key by the door frame,
and instructs her husband to use it. Fortunately, it was the right key;
and as soon as the door opens, Ellie marches out and goes immediately to her room.
Later, Kiera goes to Ellie's room, and asks her to watch over her younger brother for the night,
since both parents will be at the office to prepare
an important presentation for the next day. That evening, Ellie's on the phone with some boy,
when out of nowhere, Steven scares her using a goat skull. Ellie goes after her younger brother
and tries to get him to sleep. But she wasn't the boss of the two, and Steven refuses to listen.
So Ellie calls their mom to convince Steven to sleep. After the brief phone call,
Steven explains to Ellie that he found the skull in a hidden room, together with a metal plate,
a dusty old abacus, and a phonograph. Curious, Ellie manages to play the old record,
and hears a voice of a man spouting some sort of mathematical equation. Soon after, it starts
counting; Ellie then turns off the antique record player, and orders her younger brother to bed.
Later that night, the power goes out. Ellie then calls her mother, informing her of the situation.
Kiera instructs Ellie to check the breaker by the cellar, and see if there's anything wrong
with it. At first, Ellie hesitates to proceed, but after Kiera helps her distract herself by counting
each step on the way down, she makes it to ten. Kiera smiles proudly at her daughter's small act
of bravery, and is about to give her further instructions. but Ellie continues counting.
By the time the couple arrive home from work, Ellie can no longer be found.
They try looking everywhere and even contact the local police. Brian shares to
the authorities that Ellie had run away from home before, and it might be the same case.
The following morning, a group of volunteers helps the Woods family search for Ellie in the nearby
forest, hoping to find any clue to the missing teenager's whereabouts. After hours of searching,
they find nothing. Kiera doesn't believe her daughter ran away from home, but it was the only
logical explanation, because Ellie was upset with the move and didn't like the changes.
Kiera spends the day putting up missing posters of Ellie around the town, and completely forgets to
get Steven from school. After fetching her son, they immediately head to the police station to
meet up with the investigator. The man in charge of the missing case, discloses that they've
searched everywhere but couldn't find any lead. They even checked Ellie's social media account,
and found out that she was harassed and bullied severely. This comes as a great shock for Kiera,
since her daughter didn't mention anything to her before. Nonetheless,
Kiera still doesn't believe that her daughter ran away. She believes something happened in
that cellar; she just doesn't know what. After arriving home, Kiera notices the words
"Solve et Coagula", embedded above the entrance, and she searches for what it meant through the
internet. Kiera later finds out that the phrase "Solve et Coagula" means to Dissolve
and Coagulate. Basically, it's a process used in ancient alchemy. Afterward, she calls on Steven,
and asks if there was anything wrong the night Ellie went missing. Steven drops the ball he was
toying with, points at the phonograph, and tells his mom that they tried playing it.
Thinking it was irrelevant, Kiera dismisses her son, and continues to check on her daughter's
social media. She discovers that Ellie had a tattoo, but purposely kept it from her.
Later, on the way to investigate the cellar, Kiera notices a pentagon above the cellar door.
She then heads down the stairs, and uses the Ultraviolet rays to find any traces and clues
that might come to light. First, she discovers some roman numerals embedded in each step,
and then the mysterious mathematical equation on the cellar floor! But when Kiera uses the
UV lights to illuminate the cellar wall, she's shocked to see several screaming-like faces!
Subsequently, Kiera reports her discovery to the police, and the police immediately go to their
house to check the bizarre painting. It turns out, it is an old plant-based painting from the 50s.
When the investigator asks about the house's history, the couple doesn't have any idea,
except for the fact that an elderly lady sold the house to pay for a nursing home.
In the middle of the night, Kiera wakes up, when her son comes into their room,
saying that he wets the bed. After changing the sheets and tucking the young boy to bed,
Kiera begins hearing Ellie's voice counting, echoing throughout the dimly-lit house.
Once again, Kiera ends up in the cellar. As she unknowingly sends the ball down the stairs,
the counting stops, but the ball falls, as if the stairs were longer than it looks.
She then turns on the lights, but can't find any traces of the ball.
When the sun rises, Brian finds his wife staring at the symbols above the doors.
Kiera then begins to hypothesize that the symbols are clues, and has something to do
with Ellie's disappearance. But Brian thinks that it was completely irrelevant, believing
that it's just the desperation and stress that caused Kiera to do all the crazy talk.
Later that day, Kiera calls the agent who sold them the house,
trying to find out anything about the previous owner. The agent discloses that he only knows the
previous owner is a daughter of a famous scholar. Aside from that, no names, no addresses of her.
Afterward, Kiera takes pictures of the symbols, and sends them to her secretary to see if she can
get any information out of them. Kiera leaves the meeting with Brian, and bolts out of the office,
but her secretary catches up, and informs her that the symbols are Hebrew glyphs,
and if arranged in a certain order, they spell out the word "Leviathan,"
whose origins come from Jewish mythology. After picking up Steven from school,
Kiera does a quick search about Leviathan, and then begins playing the phonograph. Meanwhile, in
the game room, Steven has no clue that the abacus starts moving by itself in the background, and the
not-so-secret door opens. As the phonograph starts counting, Steven unconsciously starts
counting with it, and begins to slowly approach the door. Kiera hears her son counting along,
and runs over to him to ask why he was doing it. Steven simply replies that he has no idea.
After the short confrontation, Kiera notices a name on the large portrait painting,
and searches for it on the internet. It turns out, it's the actual owner, A renowned
physicist who disappeared a few decades ago. While she reads the article, the cellar door
opens, as if an entity emerges from the abyss of the basement to continue the haunting.
A few seconds later, the power goes out, and Kiera instantly looks for her son.
She hears Steven's voice from behind the cellar door, and tries to get it open. But like a few
incidents before that, it is locked. but this time, the key is nowhere to be found.
She tries to comfort Steven, and peeps through the keyhole. She takes a step back immediately,
when she sees a goat-like eye! But Steven then emerges from the back, clearly puzzled.
In a sudden change of wind, the door opens, and the lights go back on. She then goes inside
to check on the cellar. Without warning, the door closes! Kiera urges Steven to hurry up,
as she feels something ominous. Luckily, Brian arrives just in time, and gets the door open.
Later that night, Kiera informs Brian that her Phone had disappeared after the incident earlier.
Not only that, she finds out that the previous Family who owned the house,
all disappeared except for their daughter, the very elderly lady who sold the house to them.
The next day, Kiera visits the national college of Mathematics, and asks for help from a savant
professor, who recently acquired his genius after an accident. Kiera hands the professor
the strange equation; and at first glance, the professor figures that the equation is
a representation of dimension. but He needs more time to work on it, and offers to Kiera
that he'll give her a call once he has answers. Later, Kiera arrives home and receives a call from
the professor. The professor finds it strange, because he called earlier and someone answered.
What's more, the person on the other line just kept on counting. the professor further tells
her that he has found out from a foreign colleague that the equation was part of mathematics created
by alchemists in the 12th century. It's something like an unfinished incantation. The professor adds
that his colleague came across a similar equation engraved in a house in Belgium,
where coincidentally, a family went missing. The new information urges Kiera to show Brian
her findings. But her husband is not up to it. For him, it's delusional and wishful thinking.
Meanwhile, the record starts playing, and Steven sees a silhouette of Ellie
appear on the playroom door. The young boy shouts for his parents, and immediately they
rush to the playroom and find Ellie's phone. On a different occasion, the agent calls Kiera
after finding out some information about the previous owner, who is currently in a nursing
home. Kiera then drives to the nursing home address to meet up, hoping to figure out the
whereabouts of Ellie and the secrets of the house. The previous house owner hesitates to speak at
first, but after Kiera explains her situation, the elderly lady vaguely shares that her father
resorted to some evil power, intended to cure his brother's disease when science couldn't help,
but he happened to unleash the evil. From what the old lady said, they know that it's
not just the cellar that's possessed by the evil spirit. It's the whole house.
Back at the estate, Brian somehow gets to know the symbols on the door form a pentagram. It's
A reverse star, a symbol always associated with an evil goat-like creature, called Baphomet. He
then shows it to his wife as soon as she arrives, and explains that Baphomet is some sort of demon,
a gatekeeper of hell. The couple manages to connect the dots with all the symbols associated.
With the hand gesture, and the words "Solve et Coagula", it all makes sense that the whole
house was designed to summon evil to the mundane plane, and the words "Solve et Coagula" might be
the key to the hell dimension. Brian starts to believe his wife's theory, and the symbols
are related to their daughter's disappearance. At the same time, Steven's drone stops working.
He is about to pick it up, when suddenly it revs back to life and goes into the cellar.
Steven starts counting down as he heads down the stairs, when Kiera starts playing the phonograph
in the other room. He makes it down to ten at the bottom of the cellar, and picks up the drone.
Unbeknownst to him, the ancient being, Baphomet, emerges from the shadows instantly.
All of a sudden, the power goes out, and simultaneously Steven screams.
The couple rushes to help their son; but as soon as they arrive at the cellar, they only find the
drone. Brian checks upstairs, while Kiera covers the ground floor. With no sign of their son,
the couple almost loses hope; when suddenly, a ball rolls down from the stairs, and they
hear someone counting. They immediately check it out, only to find Steven there who's very pale.
With the young boy's temperature rising, Brian rushes out of the room to fetch some water.
Kiera on the other hand, tries to remove her son's shirt, but finds Baphomet's insignia tattooed on
his chest. Abruptly, Steven happily tells his mom that he remembers riding a beast with seven heads
and ten horns; then he starts counting again. Kiera freaks out and looks for Brian for help,
but she's shocked to see her husband counting along with their son. As the countdown reaches
one, the cellar door opens, and a strong gust of wind blows on Kiera's face.
Soon after, she hears something going up the cellar stairs. Straightaway, Kiera hides in the
nearest room. But as she stands up, the devil Baphomet tries to grab the screaming Kiera.
Luckily, she makes it out of the room and into the cellar. She heads down the stairs; but as she
lights up the way, it is more than ten steps deep. And at the end of the stairs, there's a door.
With Baphomet closing in, she had no choice but to run down the steps, and hide behind the doors. The
ungodly creature walks past her; and Kiera takes the opportunity to walk in the opposite direction.
She hears some whispers and decides to follow the origin, only to discover hundreds of thousands
of ash-covered people, mindlessly in line and counting to infinity. Apparently, these people are
trapped in the hell dimension, and forced to count until the day of reckoning. She tries desperately
to look for her daughter. She is about to give up when she sees her daughter's ankle tattoo.
Immediately, she pulls her daughter back to the house, losing the flashlight in the process.
By the time they reach their place, the lights are on, and Kiera goes on to lock the cellar door.
But Baphomet is banging on the door, trying to get out. The brave mother then tries to
defy all odds by shouting at the devil. And just like that, the banging stops.
For the first time in days, the family reunites, and everything is seemingly normal again.
Kiera hugs her daughter tight. After Brian comes back with Steven,
Kiera urges the whole family to hurry up and leave the house; but on the way out,
she sees the very same flashlight she lost earlier. When Kiera opens the door,
she discovers the seemingly endless stairs in front of the house, indicating that they are
still in the hell dimension. The three of them start counting again; and soon after,
Kiera joins them and continues the count, hoping that they can open the hell gate someday.
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