Actor EoinMacken spoke with Digital Trends about his new film, TheCellar, and why he loves genre films.
The Cellar is another addition to the creepy basement trope as seen in films like The Silence of the Lambs, Evil Dead, and House on Haunted Hill. However, the inclusion of complicated mathematical and scientific equations, as well as a stairway to a different dimension, allows The Cellar to stick out in a crowded genre. Written and directed by Brendan Muldowney, The Cellar is based on the same director’s award-winning short, 2004’s The Steps.
Eoin Macken: It was all Brendan Muldowney, to be honest with you. I wanted to work with Brendan, for probably a long time. I did just a couple of scenes for the film we did called Savage years ago, and I thought Brandon was a wonderful director. So when I read this script, I was like, “I really wanted to do this.” I thought the way he designed it and the way he wrote that lore of what this was fascinated me. I wanted to know what was going on.
I actually spoke with Brendan about this so I want to get your perspective. Your character works at this advertising agency and in a way, your job is essentially to manipulate clients as well as the public perception of what you’re selling. But inside the house, your entire family is the one being manipulated.
Yeah, it really did. We had two weeks in cottages, side by side in the middle of the forest, and the house was right there. So the house we were about to film in was kind of sort of overlooking us from this hill. We would go for walks around it, and it did get really creepy at nighttime. There were these [strange] noises from these cows on the land.
You seem to gravitate towards horror and mysteries like The Cellar, La Brea, or I am Fear. What is it about this genre that attracts you to these mysterious roles? Honestly, I couldn’t have done what they did at their age. I couldn’t have acted in my teens, and the two of them were fantastic. They were great.
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