The Cellar Door

You’ll take an extra look around to make sure some creepy guy hasn’t followed you home after watching Matt Zettell’s The Cellar Door. In the psychological horror flick, super-creepy Herman finds Rudy, the perfect girl he’s been searching for. But instead of asking for her phone number, Herman kidnaps Rudy and locks her in his cellar, where he subjects her to all kinds of heinous torture. Turns out Herman’s a serial killer, keeping mementos such as the hair and blood of past “girlfriends.” Rudy has to suffer through his sick fantasies — we see her tied up and gagged, bloody, and trapped in a wooden cage — while searching for a chance to escape. The movie, which won the Audience Award at 2007’s Shriekfest Horror Festival in L.A., is part of the Drafthouse’s Shriekfest series going on this week. See if Rudy can get out of this killer’s fantasy today at 10 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse West Oaks, 1000 West Oaks Mall. For tickets and information, call 281-920-9211 or visit www.drafthouse.com/westoaks. $6.
Wed., Jan. 23, 10 p.m., 2008