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.... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
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| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasIt’s that intuitive fusion of whiplash-inducing plot twists and political anger that makes The People Under The Stairs so fascinating, even when the humor’s too blunt or the scares too soft. |
| F5 (Wichita, KS)Jake EukerCraven toils under the influence of Lynch and Raimi, but below the surface hyperactivity the results are the same. |
| Cinema CrazedFelix Vasquez Jr.A wacky, darkly comic, and obscenely weird horror movie... |
| EmpireS. C. DavisThis movie-movie gem scores on levels few horror films ever have. Not just a disturbing ride but also a hard-hitting political statement. |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Chris Hicks"The People Under the Stairs" provides a few jolts here and there, but writer-director Wes Craven certainly doesn't let taste stand in the way of exploitation. |
| Entertainment WeeklyGlenn KennyPeople is a bizarre fairy tale that never loses its sly intelligence even when fulfilling its gross-out quota. |
| Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)John BeifussA parable of underclass exploitation that ends in revolution and extreme -- even explosive -- wealth redistribution. |
| Rolling StoneAlex PappademusSince this is a movie about deranged racists driven by a virulent strain of midcentury Christian moralism to keep children in cages while conspiring to disenfranchise the poor, that’s not going to work. Everything that happens in this movie could happen next month and it would be a one-day cable-news story that Fox would probably not cover. |
| The SpectatorHarriet WaughThe film turns America's obsession with child abuse to humorous and gothic effect. |
| New York TimesVincent CanbyThough the new movie has its share of blood and gore, it is mostly creepy and, considering the bizarre circumstances, surprisingly funny. |
