Review: Nothing New Here
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 25, 2012
A ten minute short story about a girl called Heather who is so insecure about losing her only friends' friendship she decides to go inside an old abandoned house that no one has been able to live in for long, even though she knows about what happened in the basement years ago.  When a force pulls her into the house, slams and locks the door, you'd think Heather would smash through a window or something and just get out.  But no, like a lot of other haunted house stories, common sense doesn't play its hand here.  Heather has secrets of own, which will come into play in the house.I didn't find anything new to experience in this that hasn't been done over and over again by other authors who at least had some element of their own to add. A few scenes from other stories are briefly replayed in The Basement but your waiting for the author's unique touch to show, and it never does.  This is sort of like when you were in primary school and had to write a short story and some of the less imaginative kids in the class would just rewrite whatever movie they'd just seen or combined a couple together.