The Cellar (film)

The Cellar is a 1989 horror film directed by Kevin Tenney and starring Patrick Kilpatrick.

Skip to current time, a divorced father, Mance Cashen played by Patrick Kilpatrick, moves to the area with his new wife and baby. His son from his first marriage, Willy played by Chris Miller, is visiting. Willy notices something peculiar in the house and tries to warn his father and stepmother. They do not believe him. Willy is attacked while on a tire swing over a small water hole. The creature grabs his foot and Willy struggles, eventually getting away. He eventually befriends the local drunk, T. C. van Houten played by Ford Rainey. A nice old man with some bad memories who knows something about the evil near the oil well and was in a situation similar to Willys.In the meantime a Comanche Indian, Chief Sam John played by Michael Wren, comes to warn Mance of the evil and the need to keep it contained. Sam John informs Mance the evil was originally intended to stop the white man, but it is indiscriminate in whom it kills instead. Mance will have none of it. Willy eventually takes a spear he finds on his property to Sam John and tries to find out what is going on. Sam John convinces Willy to promise to stay out of the cellar and come get him if anything happens. ........

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