Underground werewolf

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Movie
German title Underground werewolf
Original title Cellar Dweller
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1988
length 74 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director John Carl Buechler
script Don Mancini
production Charles Band
Bob Wynn
music Carl Dante
camera Sergio Salvati
occupation

Underground Werewolf (Original title: Cellar Dweller ) is an American horror film from 1988. A young art student brings to life an evil werewolf cartoon character who decimates her fellow students one by one.

action

Colin Childress, a famous cartoonist and inventor of the “Cellar Dweller” comic series (in German: basement residents ) is followed in his house by one of his drawn horror cartoon characters who have come to life. After the werewolf monster has devastated the studio and killed Colin's girlfriend, Colin tries to drive the monster away by burning the drawings, but finds himself dead in the flames.

Thirty years later: In the former home of Colin Childress, a small private art school (the Trockmorto Institute for the Arts ) has been set up under the direction of Mrs. Briggs . As a new student, the young comic artist Whitney Taylor finds acceptance in the illustrious flat-sharing community of art students with different backgrounds. The video artist Amanda took note of the recording of Whitney with little joy, since the two of them have had a tense enmity since their early student days. Whitney Taylor does not show the dislike of her roommate as well as the headmistress Mrs. Briggs. Rather, she is anxious to finally be close to the former place of activity of her idol Childress. Although she was forbidden to do so, she went to the basement, where, it is said, the mentally confused Childress murdered his girlfriend 30 years ago and then burned himself. At her insistence, Whitney is allowed to set up her own studio down in the basement.

Whitney Taylor emulates the work of her idol and draws her own comic story based on the models of "Cellar Dweller" in which she lets her enemy Amanda be killed by a werewolf. She is not yet aware that the sudden disappearance of Amanda is due to the fact that her drawn comic book story becomes real and that Amanda is devoured by the incarnate werewolf in her room.

The disaster takes its course. Lisa and Norman, two other residents, fall victim to the werewolf from Whitney's comic. Only after Whitney and her fellow student Philip Lemley discover comic drawings on which the deaths of Lisa and Norman are sketched, which Whitney claims to have never drawn herself, does Whitney come to the terrible realization that the monster of her imagination has become real. The myth that allegedly led to the death of Colin Childress thirty years ago seems to be true and is happening again. Whitney has to watch helplessly as her fellow student Philip is transported by the monster into the realm of the dead.

Whitney desperately seeks help from Mrs. Briggs, the director of the institute, but immediately discovers that she too has mutated into a werewolf monster. The monster is now cornering Whitney too, by chance she pours white opaque paint over the comics sketches, with which she succeeds in temporarily taming the monster. Whitney takes the opportunity to bring the deceased back to life by sketching Philip, and later the other boarders.

Just as Colin Childress tried thirty years ago, Whitney sees the last chance to defeat the monster by burning all the comic drawings on which she sketched the monster in a bucket. In fact, the monster dies a fire death. But the sketches of the boarding school residents also end up in the bucket, and they are now burned in agony.

In the final scene, Whitney is killed by the (resurrected) werewolf.

Trivia

  • Compared to the English version (74.25 - including credits), the German video version has been shortened by a few short scenes (74.12). The German TV version has been shortened even more (73.08).
  • The film was indexed in Germany from 1988 to 2013.

criticism

  • The film was accepted on the Internet platform schlechtergeschmack.de and received correspondingly bad criticism: When the awkwardly pounding monster finally appears, at least the trash factor comes into play ..., also because the growling monster, a mixture of werewolf and eater, ...... looks more cute than scary. Their actions have been edited accordingly in the German version, so that the film was robbed of the few attractions. In view of what you still know from the monster corner, "Cellar Dweller", ... seems pretty staid and dusty.

Web links

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  1. ↑ Cutting report on www.schnittberichte.com
  2. ↑ Film description and film review at www.schlechtergeschmack.de