The People Under the Stairs
Directed by Wes Craven
With hopes of stealing a stash of gold, Fool (Brandon Quintin Adams), a 13-year-old breaks into his landlords' creepy house with two friends. Things soon go terribly wrong as the trio finds they can't get out! Soon, the landlords (Everett McGill and Wendy Robie) return, and Fool and his friends uncover a horrible secret: cages of deformed children kept in captivity under the stairs! King of Horror Wes Craven delivers a freaky, fun, socially savvy scare in this 90s gem.
A young boy is trapped in a nightmarish home full in Wes Craven's 90s gem.
Cast: Brandon Adams, Ving Rhames, Everett McGill, Wendy Robie, A J Langer
Member Reviews
This movie Really horrified me as a kid. Changed my world HoRRiFied me. In current times, it is Dated in some of the horror makeup and "not current." I think it's Way Scarier than the recent IT movies, but for the youth now, they may disagree. I would have given it a 6 out of 5 scary back then.
Finally got to see it and thoroughly enjoyed. Thanks Shudder
Outta the horror genre this movie had more unique storytelling that’s tells an important narrative. Landlords treating other’s as cattle to make profit without any consequences against their humanity. This movie has mix bag of emotions to horror to comedy to touching moments that made me cry.
Somehow missed this one from back in the day but the title was familiar. Enjoyed it, but wasn’t expecting horror comedy on the level of Tales From the Crypt. Ving had a couple of good one liners and it was fun to see the home life of Big Ed and Nadine from Twin Peaks.
pretty good