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Daddy finds Fool at the vault, where Fool sets off explosives, demolishing the house and causing the money to blow up through the crematorium chimney and into the crowd of people outside. Daddy is killed in the explosion, and Alice and Fool reunite in the basement. Meanwhile, the people outside claim
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horror film", containing "its share of blood and gore", and lauded the film for being "mostly creepy and, considering the bizarre circumstances, surprisingly funny" in that "it's impossible not to like fiends who, having just dispatched someone in an especially nasty way, can't contain their natural
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Fool is discovered by Daddy and is thrown to the cannibalistic children to die. However, Roach helps Fool escape, but is critically wounded. As he dies, he gives Fool a small bag of gold coins and a written plea to save Alice. Fool reunites with Alice, and the two escape into the passageways between
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Spenser, and Fool break into the Robesons' house by using Spenser to pose as a municipal worker. The Robesons leave the home shortly after, but Spenser does not return. Fool and Leroy break into the house to look for Spenser, and Fool finds his dead body along with a large group
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Mommy finds out that Alice knows the truth and believes that Fool has turned her against them, so she attempts to kill Alice. However, her actions are witnessed by a crowd of the
Robesons' evictees, exposing their crimes. Fool frees the cannibal children from the basement and they kill Mommy, with
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in 2015, featuring audio commentaries by Wes Craven with
Michael Felsher, and by actors Brandon Adams, A. J. Langer, Sean Whalen, and Yan Birch. The Scream Factory release also includes interviews with members of the cast and crew, behind-the-scenes footage, a "making of" featurette, a theatrical
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The film was made on a relatively low budget of $ 6 million, without significant studio interference. The Thomas W. Phillips residence, located at 2215 S. Harvard Blvd in Los
Angeles, was used in the film as the house of the Robesons. Everett McGill and Wendy Robie were cast as the Robesons after
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Robesons return, and Fool flees while Leroy is shot to death by Daddy. Fool runs into another section of the house where he meets Alice. She tells him that the people under the stairs were children who broke the "see/hear/speak no evil" rules of the Robeson household. The children have
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The film opened at the No. 1 spot at the box office, taking in over $ 5.5 million that weekend (earning back most of its production budget), and stayed in the top 10 for a month until early
December. The film went on to gross over $ 24,204,154 domestically (U.S.) and $ 7,143,000
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criticized Craven's directing, going on to state that "Craven also wrote the script here, based on a news story about
California parents who kept their children locked in the basement for many years. That's scary -- and so is how far Craven has fallen." Nigel Floyd of
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dog, Prince, into the walls to kill them. Fool tricks Daddy into stabbing Prince, and he and Alice reach the attic where they find an open window above a pond. Alice is too afraid to jump, and Fool is forced to escape without her, but he promises to return for her.
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to survive, and Alice has avoided this fate by obeying the rules without question. A boy named Roach, whose tongue was removed as punishment for calling out for help to escape, also evades the
Robesons by hiding in the walls.
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on the
Robesons' TV—coupled with the depiction of them as a wealth-hoarding perversion of the typical upstanding suburban couple—marks the movie as a satire", and called the Mommy and Daddy characters a "cartoonish parody of
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November 4, 2013, featuring a high-definition transfer of the film, an audio commentary by actor Brandon Adams moderated by Calum Waddell, along with various interviews and a theatrical trailer. The film was released in
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than anything I've done in a long time ... It's a raw film with no dreams in it whatsoever. It's an extraordinary, real situation involving an awful family that shouldn't exist, but unfortunately, often does." In the 2015
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gave the movie a "thumbs down" review and admitted a distaste for gory horror films but nonetheless gave Craven credit for "creating a distinctive visual world" featuring dark humor and biting social commentary.
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gave the film four out of five possible stars and called it "brilliantly deceptive", writing that it is "Not just a disturbing ride but also a hard-hitting political statement". Brent McKnight of
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in the spring of 1992, again in 1999, and was later released on
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This article is about the film. For the musical group, see
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1707:Miller, Randy III (July 22, 2015).
1599:McKnight, Brent (October 8, 2015).
1539:"'The People Under the Stairs' (R)"
808:Best Performance by a Younger Actor
427:wrote that "footage from the first
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1396:Fox, David J. (November 5, 1991).
1049:Canby, Vincent (2 November 1991).
945:event. It is also featured on the
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1368:Anderson, Kyle (August 6, 2015).
1284:Rauzi, Robin (February 4, 1999).
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1194:Coleman, Jonny (April 27, 2017).
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1681:Salmons, Tim (April 28, 2015).
1106:Dacy, S.C. (October 11, 2015).
694:Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival
1625:Long, Mike (October 7, 2003).
1570:Floyd, Nigel (June 24, 2006).
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641:Richard Harrington of
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2227:Stranger in Our House
1743:. Dread Central Media
952:Twister...Ride it Out
924:Monkeypaw Productions
908:On October 30, 2020,
623:The Chicago Sun-Times
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877:the film along with
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2052:The Hills Have Eyes
1544:The Washington Post
1265:. Dennis Publishing
983:. November 18, 1991
698:Special Jury Award
644:The Washington Post
632:The Chicago Tribune
492:The Hills Have Eyes
241:is a 1991 American
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2156:Music of the Heart
2009:Films directed by
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1323:I Am Not a Stalker
1055:The New York Times
928:Universal Pictures
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596:The New York Times
556:Critical reception
164:Universal Pictures
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