Basement is a 2010 British horror film, starring Danny Dyer

Danny Dyer

Danny Dyer is an English actor, media personality, and chairman of Greenwich Borough, a non-League football team.-Biography:Daniel John Dyer was born in Custom House, an area of East London, to Antony and Christine Dyer...

 and written by Ewen Glass

Ewen Glass

Ewen Glass is an award winning Irish playwright and screenwriter. Ewen first came to notice in the British film industry as the writer of Basement, a feature horror film starring Danny Dyer .-Filmography:*Basement...

 about six friends who are lured into a basement for a sinister experiment.

Plot

After returning from an anti-war demonstration, Gary (Danny Dyer), Sarah (Kierston Wareing), Saffron (Lois Winstone), Pru (Emily Beecham) and Derek (Jimi Mistry) stop in the country. Derek and Saffron discover a metal hatch in the middle of the forest and they decide to explore inside. Gary, Pru and Sarah search for their missing friends and find follow into the hitch and find themselves locked in when it closes behind them.

Production

Basement is the first feature film from Paperknife Productions; a company based at Pinewood studios. Terry Stone's Gateway Films is also involved in Basements production.

Release

Basement premiered at the Mayfair Hotel on August 17, 2010 in London. The film was then released, straight to DVD and blu-ray, on August 23, 2010.