People Under the Stairs (The)
Original Title
Wes Craven's the People Under the Stairs- Director: Wes Craven
- Writer: Wes Craven
- Producer: Stuart M. Besser, Dixie J. Capp, Wes Craven, Peter Foster, Shep Gordon, Marianne Maddalena
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African-American teenager "Fool" lives in the ghetto with his sick mother and his sister. They are facing an imminent foreclosure and have no financial means. Grullo is then persuaded by a local burglar to rob the luxurious house of a seemingly uniquely sui generis couple, who will turn out to be dedicated to kidnapping, torture, murder and more.
A horror parody of the false morality of the American middle class, an hyperbolic metaphor of the divisions between classes and a strong social criticism, Wes Craven's film The People Under The Stairs has all the distinctive traits of the director's cinematography: irony, a taste for the grotesque, political reflection acted out through genre cinema, the immoderate use of blood and violence.
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Cast & Characters
Brandon Quintin Adams (as Fool (as Brandon Adams))
Everett McGill (as Man)
Wendy Robie (as Woman)
A.J. Langer (as Alice)
Ving Rhames (as Leroy)
Sean Whalen (as Roach)
Bill Cobbs (as Grandpa Booker)
Kelly Jo Minter (as Ruby Williams)
Jeremy Roberts (as Spenser)
Conni Marie Brazelton (as Mary)
Josh Coxx (as Young Cop (as Joshua Cox))
John Hostetter (as Veteran Cop)
John Mahon (as Police Sergeant)
Teresa Velarde (as Social Worker)
George R. Parker (as Attic Cop)
Yan Birch (as Stairmaster)
Wayne Daniels (as Stairperson 1)
Michael Kopelow (as Stairperson 2)
Nic Cramer (as Person Under the Stairs (uncredited))
Jon Kinney (as Drug Addict #1 (uncredited))
Danny Kopel (as Drive-by Biker (uncredited))
David Robinson (as Person Under the Stairs (uncredited))