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1973: 1957: 1941: 1925: 1451: 1034: 311:. He and his family are being evicted from their apartment by their landlords, the Robesons. The Robesons, believed to be a married couple, call themselves Mommy and Daddy, and buy poorly maintained apartment buildings, purposefully raising the rent to evict the occupants so they can sell the buildings to gentrifiers. They have a daughter named Alice, whom they abuse severely. Fool's mother has cancer but cannot afford treatment. A man named Leroy convinces Fool to help him commit burglary to pay for her surgery. 1148: 1143: 1138: 1133: 1128: 36: 352:
Daddy finds Fool at the vault, where Fool sets off explosives, demolishing the house and causing the money to blow up through the crematorium chimney and into the crowd of people outside. Daddy is killed in the explosion, and Alice and Fool reunite in the basement. Meanwhile, the people outside claim
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Fool learns that he has enough gold to pay for his mother's surgery and ten years worth of rent. He also finds out that Mommy and Daddy are actually brother and sister, coming from a long line of disturbed, inbred family members who built their fortune by running a funeral home, selling cheap coffins
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horror film", containing "its share of blood and gore", and lauded the film for being "mostly creepy and, considering the bizarre circumstances, surprisingly funny" in that "it's impossible not to like fiends who, having just dispatched someone in an especially nasty way, can't contain their natural
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Fool is discovered by Daddy and is thrown to the cannibalistic children to die. However, Roach helps Fool escape, but is critically wounded. As he dies, he gives Fool a small bag of gold coins and a written plea to save Alice. Fool reunites with Alice, and the two escape into the passageways between
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Leroy, his associate Spenser, and Fool break into the Robesons' house by using Spenser to pose as a municipal worker. The Robesons leave the home shortly after, but Spenser does not return. Fool and Leroy break into the house to look for Spenser, and Fool finds his dead body along with a large group
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Mommy finds out that Alice knows the truth and believes that Fool has turned her against them, so she attempts to kill Alice. However, her actions are witnessed by a crowd of the Robesons' evictees, exposing their crimes. Fool frees the cannibal children from the basement and they kill Mommy, with
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in 2015, featuring audio commentaries by Wes Craven with Michael Felsher, and by actors Brandon Adams, A. J. Langer, Sean Whalen, and Yan Birch. The Scream Factory release also includes interviews with members of the cast and crew, behind-the-scenes footage, a "making of" featurette, a theatrical
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The film was made on a relatively low budget of $ 6 million, without significant studio interference. The Thomas W. Phillips residence, located at 2215 S. Harvard Blvd in Los Angeles, was used in the film as the house of the Robesons. Everett McGill and Wendy Robie were cast as the Robesons after
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The Robesons return, and Fool flees while Leroy is shot to death by Daddy. Fool runs into another section of the house where he meets Alice. She tells him that the people under the stairs were children who broke the "see/hear/speak no evil" rules of the Robeson household. The children have
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The film opened at the No. 1 spot at the box office, taking in over $ 5.5 million that weekend (earning back most of its production budget), and stayed in the top 10 for a month until early December. The film went on to gross over $ 24,204,154 domestically (U.S.) and $ 7,143,000
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criticized Craven's directing, going on to state that "Craven also wrote the script here, based on a news story about California parents who kept their children locked in the basement for many years. That's scary -- and so is how far Craven has fallen." Nigel Floyd of
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dog, Prince, into the walls to kill them. Fool tricks Daddy into stabbing Prince, and he and Alice reach the attic where they find an open window above a pond. Alice is too afraid to jump, and Fool is forced to escape without her, but he promises to return for her.
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wrote that the film "is a careful synthesis of genres, steeped in horror, with a satiric bite, and action and thriller traits thrown in just for the hell of it", calling it "easily one of the director's most original, deranged, and off the wall films".
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to survive, and Alice has avoided this fate by obeying the rules without question. A boy named Roach, whose tongue was removed as punishment for calling out for help to escape, also evades the Robesons by hiding in the walls.
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on the Robesons' TV—coupled with the depiction of them as a wealth-hoarding perversion of the typical upstanding suburban couple—marks the movie as a satire", and called the Mommy and Daddy characters a "cartoonish parody of
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on November 4, 2013, featuring a high-definition transfer of the film, an audio commentary by actor Brandon Adams moderated by Calum Waddell, along with various interviews and a theatrical trailer. The film was released in
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than anything I've done in a long time ... It's a raw film with no dreams in it whatsoever. It's an extraordinary, real situation involving an awful family that shouldn't exist, but unfortunately, often does." In the 2015
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gave the movie a "thumbs down" review and admitted a distaste for gory horror films but nonetheless gave Craven credit for "creating a distinctive visual world" featuring dark humor and biting social commentary.
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gave the film four out of five possible stars and called it "brilliantly deceptive", writing that it is "Not just a disturbing ride but also a hard-hitting political statement". Brent McKnight of
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According to Craven, the film's story was partially inspired by a real-life news story from 1978. The case involved two African-American burglars who made a forced entry into a house in
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household, inadvertently causing the police to discover two children who had been locked away by their parents. The film was a surprise commercial success, and has been analyzed for its
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a reserved "thumbs up", warning viewers about some disturbing material but also saying "if you like this kind of picture, does it as well as you can imagine."
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internationally, bringing its worldwide total to $ 31,347,154. The film released in the United Kingdom on December 27, 1991, and in Australia on April 9, 1992.
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wrote of the film that "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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of the '80s and the violence it created", noting the comparisons between the Robesons and the Reagans, and comparing them to more contemporary figures like
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has incorporated the house of Mommy and Daddy, along with other elements of the film's plot, into a maze attraction in the past for their annual
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business, leading them to become greedier and more unhinged. Fool vows to help right the wrongs. He reports the Robesons to
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was partially inspired by a news story from the late 1970s, in which two burglars broke into a
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marks a unique -- though wildly uneven -- change of pace for writer-director Wes Craven."
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referred to them as "nightmare versions of Ronald and Nancy Reagan". Jonny Coleman of
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the money distributed by the blast, and the freed children venture into the night.
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of strange, pale children in a locked pen inside a dungeon-like basement.
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wrote that "this is the work of the Wes Craven we came to admire".
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in the spring of 1992, again in 1999, and was later released on
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This article is about the film. For the musical group, see
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People Under the Stairs

Wes Craven
Stuart M. Besser
Marianne Maddalena
Brandon Adams
Everett McGill
Wendy Robie
A. J. Langer
Ving Rhames
Sandi Sissel
James Coblentz
Graeme Revell
Universal Pictures
comedy horror
Wes Craven
Brandon Adams
Everett McGill
Wendy Robie
A. J. Langer
Ving Rhames
Los Angeles
satirical
gentrification
class warfare
capitalism
Los Angeles
ghetto
cannibalism
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