The People Under The Stairs (DVD) Reviews

Released back in 1991 and directed by Wes Craven, 'The People Under The Stairs' is about a group of three youths from a poor black ghetto who decide to burgle the house of their rich and uncaring white landlords. The central protagonist is a young boy whom everyone calls "Fool", who is coerced into going along on the robbery by his older ...  Read the complete review

Director: Wes Craven Producers: Wes Craven, Shep Gordon, Marianne Maddalena and Stuart M. Besser Writer: Wes Craven. Stars: Brandon Adams, Everett McGill, Wendy Robie, A.J. Langer, Sean Whalen and Ving Rhames. Released in 1991 this film is a horror/comedy, (with a lot of emphasis more towards the comedy). ...  Read the complete review

A young black boy from an urban ghetto has a big problem. It is his thirteenth birthday, his family is being thrown out of their home by their gluttonous landlords and his mother has a cancer that the family cannot afford to treat. The boy?s name is Fool; he?s a studious boy who fantasises about becoming a doctor. However, when ...  Read the complete review

Wes Craven directs this about a boy, Fool who discovers that a brother and sister are kidnapping children and keeping them under the stairs. Fool is a 14 year old who lives in a run down part of the city. They are about to be evicted from their home and his mother has cancer. So Leeroy, a friend robs a liquor store to get some money from ...  Read the complete review

Wes Craven is one of the horror genre's more intelligent and influential directors but even so has had a pretty hit and miss career. For all of his good work there is something equally bad to match so you are never really too sure when coming across one you have never heard of before what exactly you are going to get. It was then with some ...  Read the complete review

This has to be one of my favourite films. The film is about a poor black family living in a deprived area in America. There are about 7 people living in a little flat. There landlord is threatening to throw them out if they won't pay the rent, so Fool who is a boy about 12 years old and Fools sisters boyfriend decide to break into ...  Read the complete review

A brilliant film that is directed by Wes Craven. In fact I enjoyed it so much that I went out and bought it. The film starts of with a cute little boy wanting to earn money in order to get his sick mother hospital treatment. His cousin lets him in on 'a job' they are going to do on a house. The house is the property of a not only ...  Read the complete review

Directed by Wes (SCREAM) Craven, this semi-comic horror is about Fool, a 13-year-old boy from the ghetto who joins his sister's boyfriend in planning to steal gold coins from a strange and reclusive married couple living in an old house. Problems arise when the couple turn out to be criminally insane, and armed with shotguns and rottweillers. ...  Read the complete review