Girl in the Basement

2021

Action / Crime / Drama / Horror / Thriller

54
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 59%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 59% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 18349 18.3K

intrigue crime imprisonment based on true story basement controlling parent

Plot summary

Sara is a teen girl who is looking forward to her 18th birthday to move away from her controlling father Don. But before she could even blow out the candles, Don imprisons her in the basement of their home.

Director

Elisabeth Röhm Photo
Elisabeth Röhm

Top cast

Emma Myers Photo
Emma Myers as Marie / Sara's daughter
Vince Pisani Photo
Vince Pisani as Dogwalker
Yossie Mulyadi Photo
Yossie Mulyadi as Attending Physician
Joely Fisher Photo
Joely Fisher as Irene
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806.92 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 27 min
Seeds 20
1.46 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 27 min
Seeds 62

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by sarah-baldwin 6 / 10

Extremely light version of truth

Well done and definitely toned down for TV. I personally think people need to start making movies that actually depict the true horror of the reality we live in. Her true events were 1,000 times more horrific. It doesn't do the victims justice by making the father out to be better than he was. He is pure evil. Men like her father should be tortured every second for the rest of their life.
Reviewed by jackgdemoss 4 / 10

My first time rating a Lifetime movie

I knew something was off the moment our main antagonist delivered his first line of dialogue. He was such an atrociously bad actor throughout the entire film that it genuinely felt like a school project at times. It wasn't until the first cut to black during a tense moment that I realized this is a Lifetime made for TV type movie. With that taken into consideration, it held my attention well enough. What trumps even the poor acting and cinematography was the method of story telling. They attempt the classic move where they show a scene from near he end of the movie and then jump back 20 years earlier, slowly building back up to that moment to continue from it. The problem is that this particular scene shows us that any attempt at escape we see throughout the first hour will be unsuccessful, killing any tension and momentum. This was based off the harrowing real story of Elisabeth Fritzl, and more justice could have been done with it in the film realm.
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