Director:
Wes CravenGuión:
Wes CravenCámara:
Sandi SisselReparto:
Everett McGill, Wendy Robie, Brandon Quintin Adams, Ving Rhames, A.J. Langer, Bill Cobbs, Kelly Jo Minter, Jeremy Roberts, Conni Marie Brazelton (más)Streaming (1)
Sinopsis(1)
Una misteriosa pareja está a punto de ser desalojada de su casa por el terrateniente local. Ansiosos por obtener el dinero, harán cualquier cosa para conseguirlo. Un día un joven se queda atrapado en el interior de la casa y cuando quiere salir se cuenta de que no puede. Se enfrenta a un elaborado dispositivo de seguridad y a unas criaturas que harán de su estancia una pesadilla. (United International Pictures)
(más)Reseñas (4)
Wes Craven is great. An original theme about a remarkably huge house and a deranged family with a mysterious secret in the basement. The suspense pedals from start to finish, I was fascinated by the various traps and corridors, the father in his black suit was a proper nutter and the mother a proper perverted bitch. Surprise. A good flick.75%
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I'm a bit torn apart about this film... Even though I consider The People Under the Stairs to be first-rate nonsense that doesn't hold up under strict logical analysis, I was still satisfied with it, and I can even say that I enjoyed it better than objectively much higher quality films. Wes Craven is simply not only a good craftsman but also a connoisseur of genre rules and his audience. He knows very well that a fan of low-budget horror films doesn't watch them to elevate themselves intellectually but to evoke emotions. Craven knows the structure of horror, all its genre topics, props, and especially the desired clichés, both in theory and in practice. His film dabbles on the edge of horror, splatterpunk, parody, and comedy. None of it works perfectly and it doesn't come close to the quality of Scream. Of course, the horror atmosphere prevails, where Craven feels at home, but at the same time the director goes a bit into a parody exaggeration, which may not provoke bursts of laughter but does manage to make the corners of your mouth twitch – moreover, it leads to the fact that the viewer generously waves away the plot holes bigger than the damage to the Titanic caused by the iceberg... A completely undemanding, but functional affair. Overall impression 60%.
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Absolutely warped movie with a “Burn-in-Hell" Mom and Dad who lock kids up in their home, and like a model family they have a doggie too... Definitely don’t expect any horror, suspense or even any serious moments, but if you are fine with untaxing entertainment full of great lines and madcap fun, this is a movie for you. The movie isn’t spoiled even by the child main protagonist with a deprived social background, or rather not until the last third. And Craven really could have spared us the very ending.
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Pretty decent perverted fun overall, but the child protagonist was insufferable. In any case, Craven has better stuff under his belt. 60%
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