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EssexMutant
Of all the things I might suspect to see in a horror film, Everett McGill running around in a gimp suit isn't one of them.Siskoid
If I were to guess at Wes Craven's intentions with The People Under the Stairs, I'd say he wanted to give kids a transgressive "shh, don't tell mom I watched this" experience. It definitely plays like a kids movie, with child protagonists, cartoonish villains, and a Goonies-like adventure inside a Dutch-angled house with shades of Peter Pan... if Captain Hook were a crazy cannibal gimp. And that's where it gets transgressive. The gore, while fairly rare, is still pretty intense, too intense for the age group it seems to be pitched at and might thus never reach. As an older member of the audience, I was often frustrated with the Home Aloneness of it (especially all the shouting) and yet found many of the gags clever (the bit with the gold coins at the end, for example). Thrumming in the background is a story of gentrification and racial strife, which for adults is probably the more interesting aspect of this gonzo flick. I definitely wanted to like it more, but its crazy mix of tones didn't really work for me.Monteyn
It has its 90's latenight TV charm. If I was a kid I could have been scared.thestuman101694
Little known fact is that this is a sequel to Home Alone with Everett McGill playing Kevin McCallister as a grown man.Plastposen
burn in hell!thestaulker
burn in hell!asiangotrice
Forget the mutilated people. The brother and sister were the scariest part of the film.mdclarke
worth a check to see a black kid as the protagonist in a horror film. mommy and daddy remind me of something from a john waters film. roach remains a highlight in his gleeful aid, and i think this film serves as a sort of pg-14 companion to 'matilda' (1996)moviefan28
Beyond bad