“She might have fooled me, but she didn't fool my mother.”

Norman Bates (actor Anthony Perkins) Psycho (1960)

 ”The Three Mothers rule the world with sorrow, tears and darkness. Mater Suspiriorum, the Mother of Sighs, and the oldest of the three, lives in Freiburg. Mater Lachrymarum, the Mother of Tears, and the most beautiful of the sisters, holds rule in Rome. Mater Tenebrarum, the Mother of Darkness, who is the youngest and cruelest of the three, controls New York.”

Narrator Inferno (1980)

 “He who has wisdom, wonders not of the beast, for nothing in hell lives without Man's consent. Woe unto you that gives the beast form. To contemplate evil, is to ask evil home.”

Colin Childress (actor Jeffrey Combs)  Cellar Dweller (1987)

 “The people in the cellar need help! Let them out!”

The Dead Pit (1989)

 “Woe be unto him who opens  one of the seven gateways to Hell, because through that gateway, evil will invade the world.”

Director Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond (1981)

 

+ Also includes Sewer horror movies.

 I created this list because I could not find any suggestions on “basement horror” movies.  It is a very interesting type of movie and deserves more attention.

Enjoy.

The Evil Under the House (Basement horror movies)

Kate Beckinsale, Ray Liotta, John Malkovich, Jason Bateman, Adrien Brody, Edie Falco, Charlie Day, Ken Jeong, Jason Sudeikis, and Common in Fool's Paradise (2023)

A comprehensive accounting of (mostly) English language film anthologies... excluding any & all compilations, films prior to the 1950s, and poorly produced amateur video junk.  ———  FILMS are grouped together in order by INTERCONNECTED films, then FRANCHISES, and then the rest organized by THEME (Halloween, Christmas, Comedy, Drama, and then color scheme).  -- actively updating

ANTHOLOGIES | collection of almost every Film

Kevin Bacon, Adrienne King, Ari Lehman, Robbi Morgan, Betsy Palmer, and Jeannine Taylor in Friday the 13th (1980)

Katharine Isabelle in American Mary (2012)

Lisa Ambalavanar, Sutter Nolan, Sydney Craven, Bianca Beckles-Rose, and Olivia Rouyre in Slotherhouse (2023)

Liv Tyler, Sean Astin, Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, and Andy Serkis in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

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