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The People Under the Stairs (1991) 6.1
Two adults and a juvenile burglar break into a house occupied by a brother and sister and their stolen children and can't escape. Director:Wes CravenWriter:Wes Craven |
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| Brandon Quintin Adams | ... |
Fool
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| Everett McGill | ... | ||
| Wendy Robie | ... |
Woman
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| A.J. Langer | ... | ||
| Ving Rhames | ... | ||
| Sean Whalen | ... | ||
| Bill Cobbs | ... | ||
| Kelly Jo Minter | ... | ||
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Jeremy Roberts | ... | |
| Conni Marie Brazelton | ... | ||
| Joshua Cox | ... |
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John Hostetter | ... |
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John Mahon | ... |
Police Sergeant
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Teresa Velarde | ... |
Social Worker
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George R. Parker | ... |
Attic Cop
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The People Under the Stairs is the story of a young boy (Fool) from the ghetto and takes place on his 13th birthday. In an attempted burglary (along with two others) of the home of his family's evil landlords, he becomes trapped inside their large suburban house and discovers the secret of the "children" that the insane brother and sister have been "rearing" under the stairs. Written by chinagirl
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In every neighbourhood there is one house that adults whisper about and children cross the street to avoid. Now Wes Craven, creator of "A Nightmare on Elm Street" takes you inside... See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
1 November 1991 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Wes Craven's The People Under the Stairs See more »Box Office
Budget:
$6,000,000 (estimated)Gross:
$24,204,154 (USA)Company Credits
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Grandpa Booker: Just want to finish saying our piece, ma'am.
Ruby Williams: Not only are you bad landlords but 10 times worse. You've stolen all the children from our community for your own sick needs!
Woman: There's no community here, all I see are a couple of ni...
[the entire neighborhood comes up behind Ruby and Booker]
First man: Ruby, right here!
First woman: Got that right!
Second woman: We busted your ass, bitch!
Ruby Williams: What're you gonna do, shoot us all?
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Wes Craven chose Wendy Robie and Everett McGill to play the parts of Mommy and Daddy after seeing them play husband and wife on the TV series, Twin Peaks. See more »Goofs
When Mommy and Daddy have lost Alice, they look in the kitchen to find her, and Mommy starts opening up some cabinets and in the process she leaves some of the doors open. Then in the next shot, the cabinet doors that are open have now changed, and some doors that were open in the previous shot are now closed. See more »Quotes
Woman: Get off my property!Grandpa Booker: Just want to finish saying our piece, ma'am.
Ruby Williams: Not only are you bad landlords but 10 times worse. You've stolen all the children from our community for your own sick needs!
Woman: There's no community here, all I see are a couple of ni...
[the entire neighborhood comes up behind Ruby and Booker]
First man: Ruby, right here!
First woman: Got that right!
Second woman: We busted your ass, bitch!
Ruby Williams: What're you gonna do, shoot us all?
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Years ago I went to see this movie with my friend, think I was 15... Well, liked it then, like it now! A mystery to me is that how can this horror gem be so underrated - at the time it's practically forgotten! C'mon! Let's see what we got here!
1) Originality. It's mostly day time, we're up against no Jason or Michael, but two HUMAN baddies, and the setting is just a normal (well, then again maybe not so normal) HOUSE in the middle of a suburb! In between the lines this pays homeage to Halloween by shoving that inhabited areas can be just as deserted and unsafe as, say, a foggy forest...
2) Humour. This must be the most coal-black-humour-ridden splatter flick in history! And believe it or not, it all works! You'll be either frightened and laughing your ass off in every twisted turn, I promise you that. A school- book example of a roller-coaster-ride- kind of a movie! Most of this thanks to the nutcased "parents", especially the father (Everett McGill)!
Also instead of a caucasian College kid Johnny Football Hero in the lead for goodies, we this time have a 13-year old black kid everyone calls "Fool".
Was Craven ahead of his time back then? I think "Scream" owes at least a bit to this one in what comes to taking the splatter genre not too seriously... Any which way, go rent this one right away!