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Torture Cellar
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A chamber of horrors exists where unspeakable things are done to people, which typically leads to their doom. It might seem like an inescapable madhouse or some unearthly realm of torment, but the truth is... it's just someone's cellar. Used in suspense and horror works, especially works that revolve around serial killers who enjoy torturing their intended victims. Over-the-top decorations in blood and bones somehow do not result in insect infestation or a telltale stench alerting anyone to the evil doings of the house's owner. This may be due to visual media being bereft of a sense of smell, so it never occurs to them. Often includes an Iron Maiden, either for show or for use as an actual torture device. A Sub-Trope of Creepy Basement. Also related to Locked in the Dungeon for a more medieval setting, and is often a Sealed Room in the Middle of Nowhere. Often the first nasty room found when Exploring the Evil Lair. See also Cannibal Larder where the killer piles up their corpses. Closely related is the Maximum Fun Chamber, which is implied to make the rest of the torture cellar look like a day spa. |
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In Batman: The Telltale Series Episode 5, Batman ends up discovering one inside the Vales' home where Vicki and other foster children were shackled and beaten by the adult couple. When Vicki lashes out as Lady Arkham, the leader of the Children of Arkham, she pays them back in kind. | |
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Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): The existence of one is heavily referenced and felt in the abandoned Monarch outpost that Alan Jonah and his paramilitary have taken up residence in. Jonah's aptly-nicknamed Basement Club are experimenting with Ghidorah's DNA from San's old head down there, and some of the Disposable Vagrants are disappeared and get turned into Artificial Zombies by the experiments. | |
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In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Filch mentions that he misses the days when he got to hang students by their thumbs in the dungeons for detentions, and during Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the Carrows have ensured that detentions are torture sessions. | |
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The Far Side used this setting in several strips (and got several complaints from Amnesty International whenever one was published). In one of them, there is a placard on the wall next to the prisoners: "Congratulations Bob, Torturer of the Month." | |
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Mirrors: It turns out the Mayflower mall, having been built on top of an old mental hospital, still has the old hospital's mirror room — where Esseker's doctor attempted to cure her Demonic Possession (mistaken for schizophrenia) by tying her to a chair and leaving her with nothing to look at but her own reflection in every direction for days — intact in its underground levels. | |
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Hunter: The Vigil features a "Torture Suite" Merit your characters can buy to aid in interrogation attempts. This game likes to dwell upon certain themes. | |
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Tokyo Ghoul: One of the buildings in Aogiri's 11th Ward base is taken over by Yamori for his....personal enjoyment. He keeps a "playroom" in the tower, where he keeps his current victim and tortures them until they die. Kaneki spends a hellish 10 days there, prior to fighting his way to freedom. In the sequel, Shiki Kijima has a private warehouse that he uses for this purpose. He ends up using it to tape a Snuff Film and posts it online to taunt "Rose" into taking action. While never shown, Cochlea seems to have several of these on premise for the "interrogation" of Ghoul prisoners. |
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Sleepy Hollow (1999): Ichabod Crane's father, a very religious man who thought his free-spirited wife was a witch and locked her in an iron maiden, is implied to have one of these or at least access to one. Partly justified, since it was never implied that the torture chamber was secret. Torturing suspects was (at least in the world of the film) meant to be part of the historical setting. | |
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In Angel, a private hell where former Wolfram & Hart lawyer Lindsey was sent to featured a very special Torture Cellar. On the surface, it was a nice suburban neighborhood, where Lindsey was a white-collar office worker-type with a beautiful wife and young son. But when he had to go down into the basement, a demon would force him onto a table and then cut out his heart. Worse, his heart would regenerate after the ordeal was over and his memory would fade, but he would be left feeling the trauma of his torture. Inevitably the cycle would be repeated again and again until finally Charles Gunn took his place. Gunn is eventually rescued by Illyria and confesses that he actually found the cellar easier to deal with than living in an illusion while knowing something was wrong with it. |
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In the remake, he had a secret room in the basement of the preschool he worked at, where he took the kids to molest them and make them pose for obscene pictures. | |
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Shark's killer Wayne Callison just used his garage. The only inconvenience that it caused was having to park his car in the driveway. Disposing of the bodies was slightly more problematic, but only slightly. | |
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The Road to Hell...: Psymarr lives in one, and it's filled with prisoners and other victims that he mutilates on a daily basis for his own pleasure. | |
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Breath of Fire II: Ryu and Co. investigate the Bando Church (Rhodes Chapel in the retranslation) at the request of Tiga, leader of the rebel group against the St. Eva Church who believes there's a secret there that could help them to further the rebellion. The group eventually discover a secret entry hidden inside the altar. This leads to a corridor full of human bones and undead monsters. They also found people locked inside who claim that Father Mason, leader of this chapel and high-ranked member of the Church, is responsible. When facing Mason, the Sinister Minister reveals the chapel was used to convert dissidents of the church into its faithful followers by letting them be driven insane by the cursed miasma that permeates the place. | |
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The remake House of Wax (2005) had one of these that ran under a (admittedly small) town. | |
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Sniper Elite III: The "Save Churchill" Downloadable Content campaign's level "Belly of the Beast" reveals that the Schutzollstrecker have one such chamber in their Morocco base, where they have forcefully interrogated several Allied prisoners into revealing Winston Churchill's route to the Casablance conference. Following this, they pretty much left all of their prisoners to die, which Fairburne discovers the fates of via Apocalyptic Log written by the Schutzvollstrecker. | |
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In The Phantom, two villains boast elaborate medieval torture rooms —- General Tara of Tarakimo and General Kon of Ughland. Tara's facilities are particularly heinous in that they are equipped with closed-circuit camera systems, so the tyrant can "question" his prisoners remotely, from a plush private palace office. | |
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One of the earliest occurrences of this trope in modern media comes from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974); however, the murderous family's house is so far removed from civilization that it is only discovered by accident. In one of the later films, it is further mentioned that the bodies of their victims are buried in mass graves, which do break down and cause an extremely dangerous substance to form that can be fatal on contact. This detail is ignored in most other instances of this trope. | |
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Theresa & Allison: It turns out Paisley has a whole dungeon under her house with numerous human captives whom she tortures for fun before killing them. | |
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The serial killer in the first episode of Wire in the Blood had a soundproof cellar that was used for medieval torture. | |
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In Baldur's Gate II, the Skinner Murderer, at the Bridge District, keeps one of these, in what is probably an homage to The Silence of the Lambs. | |
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Ayano's basement serves as one in Yandere Simulator. She takes people she kidnaps there and tortures them in order to mindbreak them. Her torture is of the psychological variety, though nothing is shown of just what she actually DOES to her poor victim. The secret Basement tapes also reveal Ryoba Aishi, Yandere-chan's mother, also used this basement, at least to store her kidnapped Senpai (who would become Ayano's father) until he "loved" her. The same tapes also have Ryoba claim that her mother used the basement the same way. | |
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A key plot point in the French horror film Martyrs. | |
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The 100 has the Harvest Chamber inside Mount Weather. It seems to be one of the bunker's lower levels, and it's where prisoners are used as human dialysis machines until their bodies give out. | |
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Martin Vanger's house has a very well used one in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011). It's on an island in the northern Swedish countryside, so soundproofing is not an issue. The cellar itself has a bed, kitchen, TV corner, and a metal table for vivisecting people. | |
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Ironically, the parts of The Evil Dead (1981) that were set in the house's cellar were shot in Sam Raimi's garage. | |
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion features a secret room that is used to torture Argonians. Unfortunately it's run by the Countess of Leyawiin, who everybody loves and respects and more unfortunately you can never expose her for her crimes; the best you can get away with is killing her in vengeance and even then you have to complete several missions before this becomes a possibility and it comes with a lot of consequences, i.e. a bounty on your head, pursuit by armed guards and possible suspension/expulsion from various guilds. And if murder's not your thing, it's not even satisfying. | |
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Discworld: The Unmentionables have a Torture Cellar. It's best not to think about it. The only information we are given is the stench, the... ''interesting'' equipment, and the single tooth on the floor. The last king of Ankh-Morpork, Lorenzo the Kind, had one of these. With child-size equipment. In Snuff, Vetinari learns of a man who beat his dog to death in public and tells Vimes to search his house, where they find a Torture Cellar. |
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In The Ribald Tales of Robin Hood, Lady Sallyforth maintains a torture chamber full of some very kinky torture equipment that she uses on Marian. | |
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In World of Warcraft, the Scarlet Crusade have an Iron Maiden in the Stormwind Cathedral. | |
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In the Torchwood episode "Countrycide," Ianto and Tosh end up in one of these. As it turns out, the entire town is one big Torture Cellar, and the villagers are cannibals. | |
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In Thief II: The Metal Age, Sheriff Truart had a Torture Cellar under his mansion. It wasn't accessible from the ordinary cellars, but rather by way of either of two sets of secret passages (one of which had been boarded up). | |
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Lampshaded in the Emberverse novels when Norman Arminger tried to have a proper old fashioned "Dungeon" and realized that the terrible hygiene brought about by old straw and rats had this nasty habit of spreading disease outside the dungeon, and so now uses bare concrete rooms with large drains for easy cleanup after. | |
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In Ben 10: Alien Force, Gwen finds Ben in one of these, in the episode "Time Heals". It is implied that he had been tortured. | |
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In The New Adventures of Invader Zim, Nny is now the janitor in Dib and Zim's school, and has converted his surprisingly spacious janitor's closet into one of these, as seen in his first appearance. | |
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House of 1000 Corpses takes this and all the tropes of the Texas Chainsaw tradition and cranks them to eleven. (The sheer number of skeletons eventually revealed, each and every one of them implying an unsolved missing-persons report, rather strains Suspension of Disbelief.) | |
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Condemned 2: Bloodshot contains almost a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment of one inside St. Joseph's Secondary School. | |
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In The Gravedancers, one of the sociopathic ghosts was a judge who tortured women in his basement and was responsible for many deaths. Somehow, this was never discovered until after he died, despite the vast, theatrical torture chamber portrayed. | |
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In An American Crime, Sylvia Likens was kept locked in the basement of the family looking after her, where she was tied, beaten, and starved by the family and the neighborhood children. It's made even worse given that it was heavily based on a real-life event. The movie also addresses how everyone ignored the event as it went on, by interrupting the movie with scenes of the trial for Sylvia's murder, as all witnesses were questioned about their silence. | |
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Lord Kouzuki in The Handmaiden has one of these known as "The Basement". Showing Hideko The Basement when she was a child was enough to give him total psychological control over her. | |
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A Nightmare on Elm Street: The series features Freddy Krueger who, when he was alive, murdered children in his basement and burned their bodies in the boiler room he worked in. He was, however, eventually found out, but when he got Off on a Technicality, it led to the parents of his victims burning him alive in a vigilante killing that would set the stage for the events of the movies. In the remake, he had a secret room in the basement of the preschool he worked at, where he took the kids to molest them and make them pose for obscene pictures. |
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The Illustrated Star Wars Universe: In the Coruscant chapter, Pollus Hax's denials indicate that the Empire is secretly maintaining hidden detention facilities in the lowest levels of the Under City, where dissidents are tortured for information by interrogator droids well out of sight and mind. | |
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In American Horror Story: Asylum, the real Bloody Face killer, Dr. Threadson, has one in his house. | |
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Higurashi's village of Hinamizawa has a few of these that everyone knew about and left for traditional purposes. Unfortunately, someone (namely, Shion in full Yandere mode) decided to put one of them back to work. | |
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has a torture cellar built just for your needs in the second Dark Brotherhood sanctuary. If you thoroughly harm the four people chained to the wall in their underwear, not only do you gain a little experience as if you were fighting normally, but the prisoners also give you a treasure hunt clue to make you stop. | |
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In Snuff, Vetinari learns of a man who beat his dog to death in public and tells Vimes to search his house, where they find a Torture Cellar. | |
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In the PONY.MOV videos, Fluttershy has a torture shed, and her victim's remains decorate the walls. | |
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Mario Party 7: The minigame Wheel of Woe pits three characters inside an underground torture room inside a dungeon. The fourth player attempts to eliminate the trio by performing various actions with the Mic, namely shooting Bullet Bills from cannons, opening jails to unleash Chain Chomps, or asking the nearby Shy Guy to reverse the spinning direction of the floor (which has holes leading to a bottomless pit). The solo player wins if they manage to eliminate all rivals, but the trio will win instead if at least one of them survives for 30 seconds. | |
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In Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer at the Red wizard academy a teacher gives you the keys to the school but tells you "Don't check behind the bookcase in my room." The journal itself tells you pretty much "Yeah. I know you. You're going to do it." Guess what's behind the bookcase? | |
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Mr. Monster has an absolutely brutal one in Serial Killer Forman's basement, which we get a good look at when the protagonist is dragged there and locked in the Maximum Fun Chamber known as "the pit". As if the catalog of injuries during a victim's embalming earlier wasn't enough. John takes a moment to look hard at some wounds on her back after finding tissue gas, normally caused by gangrene or extreme bedsores, and realizes that there's only one other way to get that bacteria in a living person: her attacker infected the cuts with human waste. | |
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In Neverwhere Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar improvise one of these in their abandoned-hospital base, using discarded furniture and junk and old, tarnished medical implements, in order to torture and kill the Marquis de Carabas. | |
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Resident Evil 2 has one hidden in Raccoon City's police station that's used by the police chief. Its follow-up Code Veronica has one under the prison the player starts at. | |
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In Inspector Gadget, the Health Spa from the episode of the same name has one. | |
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In Betrayal at House on the Hill, explorers of the eponymous house have a chance of coming across a medieval torture chamber complete with iron maiden and floor drain in the basement. | |
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In Warbreaker, Vivenna discovers one of these in her hosts' house and realizes that Tonk Fah's Dead Baby Comedy was entirely literal. Unfortunately for her, her hosts are right behind her. | |
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A torture attic appears in the Screaming Author case of Spirit Hunter: NG. The Miroku Mansion's attic was where Yakumo amputated the arms and legs off of little girls. This left behind a spirit who would scream every night, and when a neighbour came to investigate, she was driven insane by the screaming and committed suicide. | |
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In Pathfinder, black dragons are such utter hate-driven sadists at heart that they hoard captives even more greedily than treasure, torturing and disfiguring them with acidic spittle for sick entertainment. | |
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Sin City: The Farm at North Cross and Lennox featured in both "The Hard Goodbye," where it was Kevin and Cardinal Roark's base of operation for their cannibalistic impulses, and "That Yellow Bastard," where it was where the truly sick titular character took Nancy after kidnapping her. | |
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An unmarked location in Fallout 4, a railway post some ways south of Oberland Station, has a hatch that leads to a tiny torture cellar. A dead body is attached to a makeshift battery and a blue box contains bloody fragments of human skull. There's absolutely no indication of who did this, who was tortured, and why. | |
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In Whack the Serial Killer, Lisa wakes up in one of these after being abducted by the title Serial Killer, who is busy washing off a machete. After being freed by her dog, she can put the various implements to use against him instead. | |
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In The Walking Dead The Governor has one hidden in Woodbury. He imprisons Andrea in it then kills his Token Good Teammate assistant Milton and leaves him to zombify and kill her. | |
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Used by the Creeper in Jeepers Creepers. | |
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"Buffalo Bill" of The Silence of the Lambs had a nice spacious basement with rooms for raising moths, sewing human skin, and keeping screaming kidnapped ladies. | |
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Disturbia, also known as the "Teenage Rear Window", had a killer with a multi-story torture cellar. | |
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The basement of the pawn shop in Pulp Fiction, where Vince and Marsellus are held Bound and Gagged and the latter is being sodomized. | |
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Pinkie Pie's basement in Cupcakes (Sergeant Sprinkles). It's decorated up like a "party" (the kind of party that has blood and body parts everywhere). | |
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Bad guy Martin Vanger has one in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The house with the Torture Cellar is located in the countryside, so soundproofing is not so much of an issue. | |
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Hostel - the whole movie is all about this trope. | |
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This is played with, in Girl Genius, with Castle Heterodyne. The entire castle could be said to be a house of tortuous experimentation labs, monstrous creations, and hideous traps, so for the hero who manages to really amuse the castle, they have a torture chamber filled with... light music, bright colours, and a rather extensive waiting list. As a cast member puts it, "It's more like psychological torture." | |
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Johnny the Homicidal Maniac had a complex, multi-story torture cellar that was bigger than his house. People who wondered why he had a wall covered in blood usually ended up there. Slightly justified in that he did have the sense to soundproof it. It wasn't built by Johnny but apparently came with the house. And is growing on its own accord, making more rooms and corridors as the series goes on... Justified on all counts: the house is under the control of an Eldritch Abomination that latched itself onto Nny and refuses to let go of him. The one way he can keep it at bay is by painting that wall with blood. While at first this is portrayed as a delusion, later issues and I Feel Sick confirm that it is very, very real. | |
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Ms. Tree Quarterly: One appears in issue #6 story "Horror Hotel". In this case, the house in question was isolated enough that nosy neighbours wouldn't have been an issue. | |
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street has a variation of this with the meat room of Mrs. Lovett's pie shop after Sweeney Todd starts with their business of murdering Sweeney's customers and baking them into pies. No torture goes on there, as the customers in question are already dead at this point, but it's still a room where very bad things go down, as poor Toby discovers firsthand when Mrs. Lovett, in her crossing of the Moral Event Horizon, locks the poor kid inside before having Sweeney kill him (fortunately for Toby, they don't find him). Contrary to most versions of this trope, the smell is very much evident as Mrs. Lovett's oven pumps it into the air, but the lady who tells about it during the "Johanna" sequence isn't believed. | |
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In the Masters of Horror episode "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road", the albino serial killer Moonface performs all his kills in his dungeon underneath his cabin. He typically carves his victims' eyes out with an electrical drill. | |
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Anna has one of the psychological variety in Intruders. She has the basement rigged so that the stairs retract, doors can be opened and closed remotely, etc. Eventually she gets her victims into a replica of her childhood bedroom upstairs, where they kill themselves or are killed. | |
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One of these features in the final horrifying twenty-two minutes of Megan is Missing. It's kept by "Josh", who raped and murdered the title character in there, and proceeds to do even worse things to Amy. | |
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Wonder Woman Vol 1: A large portion of the Supervillain Lair Paula von Gunther manages to construct beneath her prison cell is dedicated to a torture chamber. | |
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Subverted in Daredevil (2015) when Frank Castle drags Schoonover into a tool shed on his property, and Shoonover outright marvels at all the potential Noodle Implements Frank could use to wreak havoc on him. But instead of another Punisher gore-fest, Frank just shoots Schoonover in the head. | |
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In The Girl Next Door and its movie adaptation, Ruth Chandler turns her basement into a place where she, her sons, and several other neighborhood children can inflict unspeakable tortures on her underage foster daughters Meg and Susan. | |
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In The Final, Dane and his outcast friends use the ranch house he inherited as one of these for a night of revenge against the popular kids. | |
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The final episodes of Waking the Dead featured Boyd given the choice of early retirement or being Kicked Upstairs; he chooses the former and resolves that the team's last case will be one that haunted him for years, about missing teenage tearaways. To his horror, they were all victims of a sexual sadist Serial Killer who operated out of a farmhouse converted into one of these, and more specifically based on the one used by real-life American killer H.H. Holmes. It turned out the killer was the son of a gangster but was long dead, murdered by his foster brother years prior, who since became a corrupt Assistant Police Commisioner and thus their boss. | |
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Pretty Girls features two of these. The first is seen in the torture porn videos that Claire finds, with the women chained up in the basement and being subjected to horrible pain through various items, before being killed and raped. Averted, as it turns out this is not a torture basement but a garage that was meticulously decorated to look like a basement. The second one is actually a torture barn that was used decades ago before it was torn down. | |
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The basement of Pokey Pierce's cabin in Popped. | |
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In Futurama, Robot Hell is a real, physical place located underneath an old fairground in New Jersey. Justified. It's New Jersey. | |
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Clive Barker's Undying: Bethany has one connecting from her bedroom. | |
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Black Science: One of Mr Block's dimensionauts refers to sending the armored division to kidnap women for Block's "rumpus room". | |
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Life Is Strange has one, as is revealed in Episode 4: Dark Room. It is the place where Mr. Jefferson brings his drugged victims to be tied up, photographed, and, in one instance, killed. At the end of the episode, Max Caulfield is herself abducted and taken to the cellar. | |
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Victoria features one... in the basement of the Maine State House and used in an official capacity. We only see it used on men who assassinated the governor, but just the fact that the new regime felt a need for an official torture chamber raises all sorts of questions. | |
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Violine provides the trope image, showing Commander Muller's Torture Cellar, complete with a Trap Door leading to a crocodile-infested moat. Bonus points for being placed inside an African dictator's palace. | |
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Alison's craft room, in Orphan Black, essentially becomes one when she ties her husband up in it to get him to confess to being her monitor. | |
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Scary Gary: Leopold has a torture chamber in the basement that he uses to torture people he doesn’t like, like Gary’s therapist. | |
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The Pit and the Pendulum has a classic archetypal secret Torture Cellar. Justified because Nicolas Medina's father was a notorious member of The Spanish Inquisition, portrayed here in classic Black Legend fashion. This is almost certainly the film Elvira's Haunted Hills is spoofing: | |
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Game of Thrones: Theon Greyjoy is confined to one in Season 3. | |
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Havenhurst: The basement is where Eleanor and her sons Ezra and Jed put any tenants who fall back into their vices. Once there, they're kept prisoner until Jed comes to sadistically murder them. | |
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In Fairy Tail, Laki Olietta's bedroom is one of these. | |
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Where the serial killer in The Cell keeps his victims. | |
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In The Pact, Annie and Nicole are haunted by memories of childhood time spent in the Torture Closet. | |
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Critical Role: The Iron Shepherds keep their prisoners in the basement of their compound, where they are "broken" and later sold off into slavery. When the Mighty Nein break in to find Fjord, Jester and Yasha, they find cages and cells full of people, including children, and an ungodly amount of torture equipment. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Imperial Inquisitors carry theirs with them. The Dark Eldar realm of Commorragh is a Torture City. |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Pinkie Pie's basement in Cupcakes (Sergeant Sprinkles). It's decorated up like a "party" (the kind of party that has blood and body parts everywhere). The basement of Pokey Pierce's cabin in Popped. |
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The people who sleep in rooms 110 and 112 of the Grand Hotel in Silent Hill probably have some interesting complaints about room service. In particular, the awful screaming and smell of burning flesh wafting over from room 111. | |
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In an episode of Criminal Minds the unsub has a slaughterhouse he has converted to be his own private maze from hell/killing ground. Somewhat justified in that slaughterhouses are designed to cut off its activities from the outside world, and it's in a bad part of town where there are few people around and fewer who care. By this point, probably 30% of all Criminal Minds episodes involve some sort of torture cellar. | |
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In Superman storyline The Phantom Zone, Faora Hu-Ul's farm at the Kryptonian grasslands of Alezar hid a cellar where she kept her victims until she grew bored of torturing them, whereupon Faora killed them off. She murdered twenty-three persons before getting caught. | |
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The Water Street Butcher from The Poughkeepsie Tapes carries out a large proportion of his crimes in one of these. | |
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SWAT 3 has a mission where you have to rescue the Turkish ambassador from a torture cellar under a store used as a front for Kurdish terrorists. | |
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The training stage of SWAT 4 features a Psychopathic Manchild who kidnapped women and tortured them in a "dungeon" excavated beneath his basement. | |
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In Pokémon: The Series, James's parents have one of these. Jessibelle used this as a way to "educate" him. | |
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent has one for the last section of the game. Meanwhile, its official expansion pack Justine has a plotline that boils down to "you are trapped in a Torture Cellar that you built and used with three hideous monsters that you made by mutilating three would-be suitors and have to escape with your life." | |
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In the Thief Gold mission "The Mage Towers", the most remote section of the cellars under the Central Tower was a Torture Cellar, containing an iron maiden and a few racks. Some of the documents in the room indicate that it is used as part of the mages' own training. | |
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Mass Effect: Andromeda: The Collective have one of these in their main lair on Kadara. It's mainly a prison cell where they beat the living crap out of Outcasts they've caught (either for information or just 'cuz). | |
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Not a basement, but the "punishment" room in the Emergency! fic "Lost and Found''. Roy is able to get an idea of what John Gage endured when the two go to the house so John can destroy some things he believes no one should ever see due to the humiliation he endured relating to his captivity. Roy finds handcuffs, a hook (John was cuffed and hung from it), various whips and other implements (which John recalls being beaten with, sometimes followed by rape, while he hung there), and a few things not mentionable in a work-safe environment. He's so reviled he nearly throws up upon finding it (though smelling a dead body a few rooms down doesn't help). | |
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In an episode of How I Met Your Mother, Ted is invited to design a new house for the extremely wealthy owner of a mansion. He's interrupted halfway through his pitch when the guy says he's not really concerned about the upper house so much as the basement... specifically, the laundry room, which he is very insistent be soundproof and easy to clean, and is exceptionally creepy about it. Everyone Ted speaks to agrees that the guy wanted him to design a murder house. | |
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Grave Encounters: The haunted hospital has an operating room in the basement, the basic purpose of which was to test lobotomies and practice black magic. As history will say, the methods of lobotomy were often very cruel and the victims did not survive very long. Lance finds this out first hand. | |
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Stanley Gimble's Prosthetics shop in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines features a rather unsettling backroom filled with unnerving pictures on walls and prosthetic limbs hanging from the ceiling. And as the player descends further into the shop's basement, things get even worse... | |
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The main character's cellar in Le avventure del grande Darth Vader. So far, it has been shown to have an intentionally misspelled sign above the entry door (TEH DANGEON), and to contain: a couch, a harness to hang troublemakers by their scrotum, two pillory-targets for persimmon-throwing against the faces of troublemakers (marked as "TEH TARGHET") and an ass-kicking machine (an engine that moves two wheels with boots on their spokes, marked as "TEH ASS-KIKING MASHEEN"). | |
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Oogie Boogie's lair in The Nightmare Before Christmas is revealed to be decorated with torture devices, including an iron maiden, during his Villain Song. | |
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In Prisoners, in an abandoned building where Keller tortures Alex for information. | |
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