the cellar be an intolerably dull and overly child friendly 80 cheese parade and direct by kevin tenney ( creator of the much good film witchboard and night of the demon ) and star the incredibly untalented patrick kilpatrick and supposedly depict a guy with feeling . the pacing be really slow and the plot feel far too familiar and the monster effect be all but petrify and the film open and end with tedious narrative ranting that somehow feel unrelated to the actual subject matter of the film . the voice over keep on nag about wind and creature rid on wind and but what the hell and there no wind in the plot . like so many 80 horror movie and the cellar handle about cursed indian landscape and all too real mythical monster hide in basement and quagmire . mance cashen and his family move into a house build on what once be the home of native american and but then white people come and turn the land into oil field . half of the script be waste on explain the origin of the monster and but i can easily summarize it for you represent an ancient indian witchdoctor summon the creature ( which look like an over sized paper mâché rat ) to annihilate the white people overflow his land but he bury it again because and and i quote and the sob kill indians as well . mance hugely irritate son accidentally awaken the beast and naturally can not convince his parent about the big hungry rat in the cellar . the allegedly emotional family situation ( daddy constantly want his son to love him ) be very pathetic and redundant and the film badly need more bloodshed while kid movie or not . the youthful hero ( chris miller ) be quite annoy and but we have definitely see bad kid actor in the 80 . the cellar be very much not recommend and unless of course youre a fan of cheesy and typically 80 monster design . the big dodgy rat thing be a real hoot to see .