The People Under the Stairs (Blu-ray) PG-13
In every neighborhood there is one house that adults whisper about and children cross the street to avoid.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 42 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 2, 2014
- Originally Released: 2015
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Everett McGill, Wendy Robie & Brandon Adams | |
| Performer: | A.J. Langer, Ving Rhames, Kelly Jo Minter, Sean Whalen, Jeremy Roberts & Bill Cobbs | |
| Directed by | Wes Craven | |
| Screenwriting by | Wes Craven | |
| Composition by | Don Peake | |
| Cinematography by | Sandi Sissel | |
| Produced by | Stuart M. Besser & Marianne Maddalena | |
| Executive Production by | Wes Craven & Shep Gordon |
Entertainment Reviews:
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There are a few push-button frights, but a total dearth of mind-disturbing terror; the humour, too, is broad, crowd-pleasing stuff.
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Time Out
Rating: 3/4 --
A parable of underclass exploitation that ends in revolution and extreme -- even explosive -- wealth redistribution.
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Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Rating: D --
Perhaps the most staggeringly incompetent movie in the director's uneven canon.
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Lessons of Darkness
Rating: 3/5 --
The performances combine with Craven's witty script and energetic direction to make The People Under the Stairs a spooky, laugh-filled release most horror fans should get a kick out of.
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Georgia Straight
A pretense of social responsibility and most of the necessary tension get lost in a combination of excessive gore and over-the-top perfs in The People Under the Stairs.
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Variety
Rating: 1.5/4 --
Or The Script Under the Coffee Cup... As with most Craven images, this one suffers from lackluster performances, a clumsy screenplay, a campy tone, and a noticeable lack of suspense.
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Creative Loafing
Craven has been directing downhill since his terror triptych of "Last House on the Left," "The Hills Have Eyes" and the original "Nightmare on Elm Street," so it's hardly surprising that he hits bottom with "The People Under the Stairs."
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Washington Post
Product Description:
Fool, a 13-year-old boy, lives in the ghetto with his sister and sick mother. When his family doesn't have enough money to pay the rent, Fool is persuaded by Leroy (Ving Rhames) to break into his landlord's house to steal a valuable coin collection. Once Fool and Leroy are inside the huge and heavily fortified house, they realize they've gotten more than they bargained for, as the landlords turn out to be an insane brother and sister couple (Everett McGill and Wendy Robie) who murder visitors and keep their kidnapped "sons" locked up in the basement as deformed monsters. Only Alice, an imprisoned girl, can save Fool from the horrors within, and a frantic chase begins between the walls of the bizarre house as Fool tries to save himself, Alice, and his community from the evil landlords. A unique and inventive horror film, THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS combines the structure of a classic fairy tale with modern social criticism and imaginative production design. Director Wes Craven based his film on real-life news reports of parents who kept their children locked up at home.
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