 The cabin did not actually have a cellar. Most of the cellar scenes  were filmed the stone cellar of a farmhouse owned by producer  Robert G. Tapert (qv)s family in Marshall, Michigan. The last  room of the cellar was actually Raimis garage. The hanging gourds  and bones are a tribute to  _Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The (1974)_ (qv). For the scene where the  students descend into the cellar, a hole was cut into the floor, a  shallow hole was dug, and a ladder was placed into the pit.