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    People Under the Stairs, The (1991)

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    A pre-Pulp Fiction Ving Rhames and a resourceful 13-year-old kid (Brandon Adams) break into the labyrinthine house of their landlord to steal a valuable coin collection – only to find themselves caught in a booby-trapped hellhole with the sicko brother and sister owners (Everett McGill and Wendy Robie) and a horde of imprisoned mutants.

    The gigantic, gruesome house is cavernous and foreboding, crammed full of crawlspaces, archaic plumbing, ghoulish brickdust and crumbling plasterboard.

    As with Nightmare On Elm Street, the story for The People Under The Stairs presented itself to director Wes Craven in the form of a newspaper article.

    It makes for an inventive, sometimes disturbing comedy-horror that, at its best, recalls the early slapsticks of Raimi and Jackson.

    There’s even a socio-economic message laid on thick like the make-up effects.

    Fool 
    Brandon Adams
    Man (Daddy)
    Everett McGill
    Woman (Mommy)
    Wendy Robie
    Alice
    A.J. Langer
    Leroy
    Ving Rhames
    Roach
    Sean Whalen
    Grandpa Booker
    Bill Cobbs
    Ruby Williams
    Kelly Jo Minter
    Spenser
    Jeremy Roberts
    Mary
    Conni Marie Brazelton
    Young Cop 
    Josh Coxx
    Veteran Cop
    John Hostetter
    Police Sergeant
    John Mahon
    Social Worker
    Teresa Velarde
    Attic Cop
    George R. Parker

    Director
    Wes Craven

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