I'm no intelligent film student but I need to say that this is the worst film i've ever seen. Really bad acting, no real plot or character back story, a set reused over and over, cheap badly done costume design and special effects. Dyer on the cover should have been a clue as to how bad it was, a film student who failed their final year would be livid to see something so terrible released, especially on blue ray.Sorry for no more detail but I really can't think of anything worth writing on this, so to summarise- avoid this film, even if found in the bargain DVD section for 10p second hand- There IS better things you can do with your time than this total waste.

I've never written a review on here before, never felt the need to...but this film is so mind- numbingly awful that I felt I must.Let me just say that I like the odd bad B-movie horror film, I can suspend my rational brain for occasional bad scripts, poor acting, terrible CGI, stupid characters & unrealistic plots, but this...well this is just an abomination of a film.The thing about Basement is, well, every single thing is badly done. I'll go through it bit by bit;Story: Virtually non-existent & at times it was just plain head-scratchingly stupid. The odd cliché is fine in horror films but this was like a lesson in how not to do things. The big 'reveal' just makes you say 'eh?', which I'm sure is not what they were aiming to achieve.Characters: Zero depth & no time was spent on development of any character, not a single one was likable & in horror films you really need to have at least one person you want to live (not just because one is pregnant either, that was a cheap & lazy move in this film). The men were loutish & hateful & the girls were just pathetic. Script: Sounded like it children wrote it with crayons on fancy coloured paper. People shouting, babbling & talking in riddles most of the time. Jimi Mistry's mockney stereotype was the worst, I felt, when he confronted a stranger with something along the lines of "what, you & your friends having a p**sy, p**sy row with us now?", not a sentence I'd ever confront anyone with after they'd just attacked me (& that censored word is about urine. Not, a lady's parts...for anyone wondering).Acting: To be fair, Marlon Brando would have struggled with this script/story but, it was dreadful anyway. As I have mentioned, Jimi Mistry's terrible 'fake hard-nut cockney' complete with Colin Farrell accent is the worst. That said, all the girls give him a decent run for his money with their confusing mimsy withering & shrieking. Danny Dyer, well he is just Danny Dyer. Every character he ever plays should be called Danny, it'd just be easier.Production: This whole film has a kind of quarter finished feel...as if this was the product of a trial run of the cameras/sound equipment/lighting etc. It wouldn't surprise me to find out that this was filmed in an afternoon. All in all, there is literally nothing to this film at all. You would gain nothing from watching it. Being bored is more fun.Earlier, I used the word 'horror' I might as well mention that it's not in any way scary & I assume they were hoping that it would have a claustrophobic feel to it, but it really doesn't. The ending is probably the worst part of all. After this ending, all you can do is shrug. Which is probably a fitting tribute to this film. A massive shrug. If I could give it zero I would, it is most certainly the biggest waste of time I've ever spent staring at a rectangular flashing box.

Last time I saw Danny Dyer was in The Business, which was an entertaining movie, so when I saw he was in a new film called Basement, I thought "Why not?" Had I know what was in front of me, I would say "Why bother?!" Anyway, a complete waste of time is putting it mildly. Scooping my eyeballs out with sharpened ice cream scoops and then filling the gaping sockets with rock salt would have been preferable to watching this utter bilge. Dire script - really, REALLY dire, lamentable acting - I'd love to have been there at the auditions - how did the actors keep their faces straight? It was utterly terrible from the word go. Well, not strictly true as it's pretty difficult to screw up a set of film titles. Bizarrely I submitted myself to the ultimate torture and stayed to watch 'til the end, in the faint and getting fainter (like my will to live) by the minute hope that it would get better, or maybe had a killer payoff - which is doesn't.I started watching this film sitting upright on the couch, and as the penance wore on, I slumped down to a position that left me looking and feeling like I'd spent 5 hours being sat on by overweight feminists after turning up at a women's lib demonstration with a sigh that read "Iron My Shirts!".Seriously though, what was Danny Dyer thinking? Was he behind on the rent when he signed up for this trash? Jimmy Mistry should have known better too. I mean, do they actually read the scripts before signing on the dotted line? Actually, scratch that because if you're unfortunate enough to sit through this garbage, then you very quickly come to the conclusion that they were reading the script for the first time on the toilet, on day one of filming! A friend of mine's wife says that I always manage to find something positive to say about most movies, even the bad ones, but this is a definite first for me in that I can find nothing positive whatsoever to say about it. It's really, truly awful. Bad (terrible!) acting, laughable script, and very poor direction. No redeeming qualities whatsoever.What makes it even worse, is that they've had the cheek to release it on the vastly over-priced Blu-Ray as well!!!! Arrrgh!

Horrific. I usually enjoy films that are so bad they are funny - or entertaining on some level, but this was truly awful to the point that I felt angry with myself for watching it to the end. I won't even go into an overview of the plot, there isn't one.It makes no sense from start to finish with the worst script ever to be delivered. Harry Enfield and his mockney characters have a lot to answer for - although I'm certain he would have performed 100 times better than these 'actors'. If you are turned on by spending just over an hour watching boring people in a boring location saying pointless and idiotic things to each other for no reason whatsoever then I suggest that you save yourself a fiver and watch Big Brother. This is, without a doubt the worst film I have ever seen. And what the hell is DCI Burnside out of the bill Talking about at the start? Do yourself a favour and spend the fiver on a slightly better takeaway than you had planned.