Decades ago a horror comic artist creates a supernatural fictional monster, the Cellar Dweller. After some unusual shenanigans involving an old book the monster jumps out of the comic world and into ours, full of rage. Not thinking too highly of this, the artist burns his creation and hopefully puts and end to it right there. Decades down the road a young girl who is an admirer of the artists, visits the colony where most of the Cellar Dweller comics where created looking to find out more about the mysterious artist of old. She doesn't know it at first but she'll have to contend not only some really unsavoury folks at the colony but the also the monster.

I honestly can't remember seeing Cellar Dweller before, it's one of those old gems that's kind of been slotted by the way side. Well we managed to get a VHS copy so we thought we'd have a wee look at what this 80's b-movie has to say for itself.

This is no stunner of a movie it has to be said but like a lot of the Empire movies that came out in the 80's it has it's own style that rubs off on me very easily. I did enjoy watching this, though it's nowhere as good as some of the other titles that came out of the Empire stable.

The general acting quality is decent. Yvonne De Carlo (the original Lily Munster) is in here and whilst she ain't as hot as she was in her younger years her acting ability hasn't degraded one iota. Debrah Mullowney (Farentino) plays the main character and comic artist/fan. Her performance is believable enough even though the script material is such that she never truly has a chance to shine. Most of the other actors fall into a similar same category: decent but nothing special.

There is some gore in Cellar Dweller, though not really that much but what's there is good. The scene where somebody gets decapitated stands out the best for me. Most of the other scenes are OK but again nothing special.

It'd be true to say that sums up Cellar Dweller the best: it's OK but nothing special. As of yet no DVD release on this one it's still old VHS tapes (though i think there's some bootleg DVD's flying around, most likely laserdisc or VHS transfers) i'm sad to say, though if you do get a chance to see it, go for it, there are worse movies out there for sure.

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