The Thing on the Stairs and Other Stories
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Showing of 32 reviews. Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. I loved how they were interconnected and especially love the last story that wrapped it up! Daddy releases his Rottweiler 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.
Fool learns that he has enough gold to pay for both his rent and for his mother's surgery. He also finds out that Mommy and Daddy are a brother and sister coming from a long line of disturbed, inbred family members. They started out as a family that ran a funeral home, selling cheap coffins for expensive prices, before entering the real estate business, leading them to become greedier and more unhinged. Fool vows to help right the wrong. He reports the Robesons to child welfare and as the police are investigating the house, Fool sneaks back in and reveals to Alice that she is not their daughter; she was stolen from her birth parents, as were all the other children in the basement.
Mommy finds out that Alice knows the truth and believes that Fool has turned her against them, so she attempts to kill Alice. However, the cannibal children charge at Mommy, causing her to flee and run into a knife held by Alice.
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The children seize her and throw her into the basement, where she lands, dead, at Daddy's feet. 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 the money distributed by the blast, and the freed children venture into the night.
According to writer-director Craven, the film's story was partially inspired by a real-life news story from Phillips residence, located at S. Harvard Blvd in Los Angeles, was used in the film as the house of the Robesons. The film opened at the No. The People Under the Stairs has received a generally mixed to positive response from critics. Richard Harrington of The Washington Post 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.
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That's scary -- and so is how far Craven has fallen. Dacy of Empire 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". Noel Murray of The A. Club wrote that "footage from the first Gulf War 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 conservatism ".
In a interview with Fangoria , Craven stated that the film "is much closer to The Hills Have Eyes 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. Langer, Sean Whalen, and Yan Birch.
Craven at one point said he would like to remake the film along with The Last House on the Left and Shocker. However, after the release of the remake of The Last House on the Left , news of a remake fell dormant until , when it was announced shortly before Craven's death that the director was developing a People Under the Stairs TV series for the SyFy Channel.
The Thing on the Stairs and Other Stories
Universal Studios Florida has incorporated the house of Mommy and Daddy, along with other elements of the film's plot, into a maze attraction in the past for their annual Halloween Horror Nights event. Ride It Out attraction. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the film. For the musical group, see People Under the Stairs.
The Thing on the Stairs and Other Stories - Kindle edition by Elizabeth Chater, Christopher John Chater. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC . The Thing on the Stairs and Other Stories has 3 ratings and 1 review. Mel said: I decided to read this after reading Aquarius Rising and.
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