The People Under the Stairs

Horror movie from director Wes Craven. In a ramshackle suburban mansion live Man and Woman, two child-abusing slumlords with a horde of crazed, mutilated teenagers hidden in their basement. Into this charnel funhouse of trap-doors, secret passages and electrified doors stumbles pre-teen ghetto kid Fool. Trapped inside after a failed burglary attempt, his subsequent attempts to escape and liberate the couple’s surrogate abducted daughter Alice prompt a relentless series of pell-mell, claustrophobic chases through the booby-trapped house, with a blood-crazed Rottweiler and a bondage-suited McGill in hot pursuit., A boy, who has been evicted from his ghetto dwelling, breaks into the home of his former landlords and discovers their terrible secret., Grisly horror tale. When a boy from the ghetto discovers his family is to be evicted, he is coerced by his sister’s boyfriend into robbing the landlord’s house. Against his better judgement, he breaks into the barricaded building and becomes ensnared in a madhouse of unspeakable horrors, not least of which is the pack of starving, mutilated children held captive in the basement by the psychotic head of the household., When a boy from the ghetto discovers his family is to be evicted, he is coerced by his sister’s boyfriend into robbing the landlord’s house. Against his better judgement, he breaks into the barricaded building and becomes ensnared in a madhouse of unspeakable horrors, not least of which is the pack of starving, mutilated children held captive in the basement by the psychotic head of the household., Spooky, disturbing and laced with a hefty dose of gallows humor, People Under the Stairs tells the story of a little boy who in desperation for cash (his impoverished mother is dying of cancer), robs a home. Unfortunately, he chooses the wrong house and ends up stuffed under a staircase with a group of other ill-fated children who barely survive the abuse and near starvation of their captivity. The couple who put them there are wealthy, but totally insane. When the newest child sees the way they abuse their adopted daughter, he decides to take action., Wes Craven writes and directs this surrealistic horror-comedy, which was inspired by a true story of parents keeping their children locked in a basement for years.