“Stay Out Of The Basement” (* out of four) was a dreadfully dull horror melodrama about a woman (Ariella Mossey) who takes a job babysitting for a lonely young girl (Emma Pearson) but soon finds that there are a lot of sinister and subversive elements going on in her house and that she has to choose between her feelings of closeness to the girl and her own safety. Plodding and predictable thriller with no voltage of surprise or scare value. Horror fans would best “stay” as far away from this timewaster as possible. Perhaps it’s best the haunted-house genre was put to rest for a while.