The People Under the Stairs
It is the story of this young man named Ful, an African American teenager. This young man lives in the ghetto and finds that his family will be expelled from their apartment within days. Fowl tried to storm the apartment but he might discover that the couple were carrying a dangerous secret about them.
6 October 1946, Hanover, Pennsylvania, USA
21 October 1969, Los Angeles, California, USA
12 May 1959, New York City, New York, USA
22 August 1979, Topeka, Kansas, USA
24 September 1966, North Trenton, New Jersey, USA
6 October 1953, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
November 01, 1991
If there were truth in advertising, The People Under the Stairs would be called The Not Very Scary Movie Set Inside a Grungy, Badly Lit House.
March 26, 2009
A pretense of social responsibility and most of the necessary tension get lost in a combination of excessive gore and over-the-top perfs in The People Under the Stairs.
July 06, 2010
The performances combine with Craven's witty script and energetic direction to make The People Under the Stairs a spooky, laugh-filled release most horror fans should get a kick out of.
August 30, 2004
Though the new movie has its share of blood and gore, it is mostly creepy and, considering the bizarre circumstances, surprisingly funny.
June 03, 2005
Perhaps the most staggeringly incompetent movie in the director's uneven canon.
August 14, 2015
A wacky, darkly comic, and obscenely weird horror movie...
October 28, 2004
A very uneven but interesting horror thriller with a social message that's somewhat lost in a script with some effective terror and less working humour and slapstick.
January 01, 2000
Craven has been directing downhill since his terror triptych of "Last House on the Left," "The Hills Have Eyes" and the original "Nightmare on Elm Street," so it's hardly surprising that he hits bottom with "The People Under the Stairs."
August 10, 2015
As a horror film and an allegory that is just as timely in the 21st century as it was in the early 1990s, "The People Under the Stairs" actually has something to say beyond its goal to frighten.
June 24, 2006
There are a few push-button frights, but a total dearth of mind-disturbing terror; the humour, too, is broad, crowd-pleasing stuff.
