THE BASEMENT
dir. Timothy O’Rawe, 1989
79 mins. United States.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12 – MIDNITE
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18 – MIDNITE

“Four strangers are summoned to the basement of an abandoned house by a mysterious entity known only as The Sentinel. One after another, they are forced to witness heinous deeds they have yet to commit – and which will damn them for all eternity.”

A shot-on-video camp-fest anthology structured as a series of ‘flash-forwards’, each segment follows one of our confused basement dwellers as they do something ‘unforgivable’ and are then swiftly punished for it.

Scenarios include: a woman using a monster in her pool to kill her husband and other “enemies”, a disrespectful actor encountering some real zombies on set, and most importantly, a disgruntled teacher who hates Halloween getting a lesson in terror from the spirits of Halloween. Terrible acting and dubbing only add to the experience, as well as some of the deepest New Jersey accents ever to appear on film, plus, of course, the incredible low budget splatter FX goodness you come here for.