Review of The Basement

The Basement (II) (2018)
2/10
It's Dumb. Don't Watch. (SPOILERS)
11 June 2019
Warning: Spoilers
This movie is dumb. After watching the first few scenes, I thought it had a ton of potential. It was an interesting concept, pretty entertaining and I was excited to see how the movie progressed. HOWEVER, it never progressed.

I get that the guy is crazy, but his characters acted completely illogical and a lot of the scenes felt pointless. Some characters helped reveal interesting details about the killers, but none of it really mattered in the end and the whole gimmick grew dull after a while. Also, this had to be one of the most pointless uses of a clown in a horror movie. Can we please end this dumb horror trope?

Every scene with the wife is forgettable. She seemed completely disinterested and all her scenes felt like commercial breaks that took me out of the story. I'm aware of the ending, but I've never seen a more pathetic attempt to track your lost husband. She literally went to the liquor store found his car with a broken wine bottle next to it and came to the conclusion "oh, he must have met a woman and left me." WHAT?! Even with the twist ending, this scene (and her behaviors as a whole) makes no sense. If she knew what happened, then why go down to the liquor store?! Who is she fooling other than the audience? This scene's only purpose is to fill an obvious plot hole and throw the audience off her trail.

The ending is terrible. The twist focused on a character that was impossible to care about or become invested in. She literally had five minutes of screen time and every second of it was forgettable. We didn't get to know her. We didn't get to learn anything about her. Instead, she was just there and she done did it, because she has a twin brother and GEMINI.

The movie was briefly interesting and compelling, so I'll give it credit for that. The musician was really good at times and some of the characters were interesting, but not worth watching. Wasn't even comically bad. Just a bad movie.
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