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Fri, Feb 2 at Midnight

THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS

  • Dir. Wes Craven
  • USA
  • 1991
  • 102 min.
  • R
  • DCP
  • Assistive Listening
  • Hearing Loop
THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS
Fri, Feb 2 at Midnight: Introduction from programmer Zack Hall | BUY TICKETS

Part of Midnight Movies

When young Fool (Brandon Adams) breaks into the home of his family’s greedy and uncaring landlords, he discovers a disturbing scenario where incestuous adult siblings have mutilated a number of boys and kept them imprisoned under stairs in their large, creepy house. As Fool attempts to flee before the psychopaths can catch him, he meets their daughter, Alice (A.J. Langer), who has been spared any extreme discipline by her deranged parents. Can Fool and Alice escape before it’s too late? Soon to be given the CANDYMAN (2021) treatment by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.


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