Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir #68. The People under the stairs

Genre: Horror/Horreur

Annee/Year: 1991

Format: DVD

The people under the stairs. This is another of Wes Craven's movies which i saw in the theater way back then. Upon second viewing it seemed a lot less scary than originally. But it is an entertaining and even funny movie at times. This is not one of Wes' scarriest work but solid movie nonetheless. The cast is excellent although little known and the whole movie plays out in this neighborhood house of which all the neighbors are afraid of. The couple who own this house also own much of the neighborhood and dont care about them at all. They pick young kids off the street and make them pass as their own until they revold as teens and are then discarded to the locked up basement. Not so much a horror movie as a an entertaining one.

Ce film, aussi de Wes Craven, nous aide a nous mettre encore une fois a nous mettre dans l'ambience de la preparation d'Halloween comme vous l'aurez deviner. People under th stairs n'est cependant pas tres epeurant et est plus action et meme drole a l'occasion. L'histoire relate la relation entre un couple riche mais fous qui habittent uns enorme maison dans laquelle ils gardent des enfants enleves au voisinage. L'un d'entre eux a reussi a s'echapper de la cave barree et aide des malfaiteurs a survivre aux proprios a parti de l'interieur des murs...
Bon faut peut etre voir pour comprendre. Un petit film quand meme le fun.

Great quotes:

Fool: [after Roach rescues him from "Daddy"] Thanks.
Roach: [smiles and nods]
Fool: [to Alice] He doesn't talk much, does he?
Alice: His tongue's cut out.
Roach: [opens his mouth and shows a severed stump]
Alice: Mommy caught him trying to call for help one day, and Daddy had to teach him to...
Fool: Speak no evil, right?
Alice: [nods]
Fool: Your father's one sick mother, you know that? Actually, your mother's one sick mother, too!
Alice: Shhh! You're speaking evil! They'd kill you if they heard a word you just said.
...
Man: Some niggers robbed the store.
Woman: Again? May they burn in hell.
Man: I'm very tense from this.
Woman: You have one of your headaches?
Man: Ooh... very VERY tense about this.
Woman: Alice has been bad. She's been feeding that thing between the walls again.
Alice: No... no...
Woman: Remember not to bruise her face. [Woman leaves. Man begins taking off his belt to punish Alice]
Man: Bad girls... burn in hell.
...
Alice: He said he killed you!
Fool: He was exaggerating

Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105121/

Rating perso: 7.0/10