They don’t come any weirder than this…
Wes
Craven’s The People Under The Stairs
begins with a tarot card reading, follows that up with a young kid forced to
steal from his landlord to pay the rent and his mother’s medical bills, and
then finds the kid trapped in said landlord’s family’s house, where he’s
terrorized by the family and the cannibalistic freaks they keep locked in the
basement... And that’s just the first hour. Craven’s film is jam-packed with
batshit weirdness, to such an extent that when one of the main characters
suddenly shows up in a gimp costume brandishing a shotgun with no explanation
given, none is really needed by that point. The overall oddity of the film
certainly keeps it entertaining, and Craven of course stages all the chases and
shocks with an eye only a master of horror such as himself could, but The People Under The Stairs soon wears out its welcome, proving that weirdness can take you only so far.
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