Skippy's Movie Reviews, #20: The People Under the Stairs
It's not often that someone makes a horror movie quite as entertaining as this. I'll get right to the point. An inner-city slum is ruled by the evil landlords, a strange family living in a mansion. One of the oppressed tenants, a young kid named Fool, is drawn into a plot which, if successful, will net him the money to pay for his sick mom's hospital care. He's going to join up with two local toughs and rob the mansion of its legendary golden coin collection.
The trio go and begin their break-in, but there's so much they don't know...so very much. I don't want to spoil it all for you, but this movie has: a killer dog, trapdoors, a guy in a leather gimp suit, shotgun fights, child abuse, monsters in the cellar, Marsellus Wallace, cannibalism, a lost fortune, dynamite, incest, and electric shock.
It sounds good, and guess what - it is! Wes Craven does it again. B-