After neighbor Mr. Kranicz (Richard Rifkin, ERAGON) calls the police to break up their raucous graduation party, building owner's son Tommy (Gergo Szekér), his British girlfriend Suzie (Caroline Boulton, HERCULES), drug dealer Kolos (Takács Zalán), and pals Woo-jin (Tom Nguyen), and Ayame (Sherin Bors) decide to conduct a seance. Strange noises and Suzie's cat lead the quintet to the building's basement which has been rented by a mysterious third party and is supposed to be locked off. Venturing down below, they discover a labyrinth of catacombs that extend beneath the city where they find the eviscerated body of one of their guests (Shawn Michael Clankie) and a knife-wielding madwoman with a mannequin's features sewn over her own disfigured ones. As they flee the killer through the corridors, Tommy is convinced that she is a maniac while Suzie insists that she is a demon that they have inadvertently conjured. An attempt at exorcism fails and the survivors are cut down one-by-one by the killer who has managed to survive being torched alive without any apparent injury. An opportunity to exploit the budget-friendly scenario of college students in a claustrophobic haunted setting turns out exceedingly awful in execution with the American/British/Hungarian THE BASEMENT through a combination of thickly-accented English-language performances that frequently place emphasize on the wrong words or syllables on top of generally poor performances. A terrible script does not help with its unoriginal and uninteresting story, and the special effects never fare well when the camera lingers on them. It is hard to even label the film a time-waster as it manages to drag at just over eighty minutes and the shrill performances will have the viewer either hitting the down volume button or fast-forwarding.