The Cellar is a 1989 American monster film directed by Kevin Tenney, based on a short story by David Henry Keller.

[2] Comanche Indians have trapped the evil of their land in a monster made up of a mixture of other animals.

The Comanche have placed a protective spear in the ground to contain the evil, along with a rabbit foot talisman for good luck.

Skip to current time, a divorced father, Mance Cashen, moves to the area with his new wife and baby.

He eventually befriends the local drunk, T. C. van Houten, the same man who rented the house to Mance and his wife.

Sam John informs Mance the evil was originally intended to stop the white man, but it is indiscriminate in whom it kills instead.

Willy takes Mance's ex-boss's son, Tommy Boatwright, with him to the water hole in order to set up bait for the monster.

Willy grabs some dynamite and rigs it up to a toy car to kill the monster, but the explosives aren't working.

[3] The Cellar was released in the United States on VHS by Southgate Video in 1989, and in Canada that same year by Cineplex Odeon.