Earlier this month, Shudder released Brendan Muldowney’s feature film the basementOne of his biggest disappointments was how he was able to shoot a short film based on the same idea, which was somewhat easier to make than a movie that had a budget and some great cast. In the original, Muldowney told us, technology wasn’t a huge factor. It was 2020 by then the basement It was filmed, which means – as many fans and critics have derided over the years – that horror films have to deal with the power and ubiquitous presence of cell phones.
In the movie, a couple deals with the disappearance of their daughter who has gone missing after the family moves into a spooky house. While she was on the phone with her mother, she went down the stairs downstairs, counted the steps down into the dark… She continued to count, her voice becoming monotonous with no emotion, long after the number of the actual stairs was exceeded. This sequence was the whole premise of the short film, and Muldowney admits he would have loved to have gotten to the action quickly and realistically in this feature.
“It’s actually based on a short film that I made. I prefer making the short film,” Moldawney told ComicBook. He explained, “Well, it’s not that I was better off making it, but it was a lot easier to make at the time, because cell phones weren’t the same. If it’s dark, you can’t use your phone and you have to use candles. So it was a lot easier to make This original is short, because they didn’t have these issues. There was a panic in the short movie where the lights go out and it goes black. And it’s black to me I don’t know how long, but it’s at least 30 seconds, 40 seconds. It’s just noise, and there Also panic jumping in the dark – a big squeaking sound of a chair being pulled as it fell. I couldn’t do that in this, because the logic wasn’t there. It’s like when the lights go out, you’re going to turn on the phone.”
When we spoke with one of the movie’s stars, actor Eoin Macken, he said he was pleased with his character — a career-focused advertising director — that wasn’t the kind of one-note undertones that such characters often have in fiction. However, the idea of getting rid of advertising executives actually attracted Muldowney on some level.
“I told someone earlier, ‘I’ve tried many versions of this, and I’m having a hard time sending innocent characters to hell,’” Moldady said, laughing. Much easier.”
This is mostly a joke. While it is wife Kira (Elisha Cuthbert) who immediately realizes that something is very wrong, husband Brian is not heartless or dismissive without good reason. He only thinks that the daughter ran away – something she did before – not that she plunged into a dimension of hell.
“When you talk about the father, it’s kind of problematic in a way, because sometimes it really seems like he’s not taking it seriously, but he is,” Muldy explained. “We’ve added a lot of stuff, where he thinks she’s ran away, and she’s done that before, and he doesn’t take it seriously, but [Kiera] She was the only one who heard her voice change when she was counting. So that change of character, and what I heard in the voice, is what really drives her.”
you can see the basement On Shudder now.
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