horror

The People Under the Stairs' is a Wes Craven horror film with an underlying message about gentrification.

horror comedy

The People Under the Stairs is a 1991 American horror comedy film written and directed by Wes Craven and starring Brandon Adams, Everett McGill, Wendy Robie, A. J. Langer, Ving Rhames, and Sean Whalen.

an American hip hop group from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1997

People Under the Stairs (abbreviated PUTS and The P) are an American hip hop group from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1997.

a hip hop group from Los Angeles

People Under the Stairs is a hip hop group from Los Angeles, California formed in 1997 by Thes

a horror-thriller with darkly comedic undertones that packs more thematic punch than 90% of today

The People Under the Stairs is a horror-thriller with darkly comedic undertones that packs more thematic punch than 90% of today’s horror releases.

a 1991 American black comedy heist horror thriller film about a teenage ghetto boy with his mentor Leroy breaking into the residence of their family's landlords

The People Under the Stairs is a 1991 American black comedy heist horror thriller film about a teenage ghetto boy with his mentor Leroy breaking into the residence of their family's landlords, his mentor Leroy discovers that they have mutilated and imprisoned several boys in the basement, with their abused daughter Alice with their Christian fundamentalism.

Everett McGill, Wendy Robie, A. J. Langer, Ving Rhames and Sean Whalen

The People Under the Stairs is a 1991 American horror comedy film written and directed by Wes Craven and starring Brandon Adams, Everett McGill, Wendy Robie, A. J. Langer, Ving Rhames, and Sean Whalen.

off-beat

The People Under the Stairs! Released about halfway between A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream, The People Under the Stairs is an off-beat tale of desperate inner city residents discovering terrifying secrets in the seemingly idyllic suburban home of Tim Barnes's landlords.

comedy and horror

As with many of Craven’s works, The People Under The Stairs falls somewhere between comedy and horror.

a horror thriller-comedy

Directed by Wes Craven, The People Under the Stairs is a horror thriller-comedy.

horror fiction

As such, the book falls in the genre of horror fiction.

an unusual beast — a mix of classic horror mysteries and the spate of cannibal-family horror films that followed on the heels of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’s success

The People Under the Stairs is an unusual beast — a mix of classic horror mysteries and the spate of cannibal-family horror films that followed on the heels of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’s success.

Wes Craven's 1991 horror-satire about a black child who discovers that John Carpenter's white landlord is a murderous monster

The People Under the Stairs, Wes Craven's 1991 horror-satire about a black child who discovers that John Carpenter's white landlord is a murderous monster, was dismissed by Variety as having "a pretense of social responsibility.

an urban fairy tale, a social commentary on the devastating effect Reaganomics had on the black working class in the late 80s

The People Under The Stairs is an urban fairy tale, a social commentary on the devastating effect Reaganomics had on the black working class in the late 80s, the logical conclusion of which was the first Gulf War fought by soldiers from the poorest sections of American society that enabled the oil to flow and grease the capitalist ideal.

a contemporary Downton Abbey meets The Amityville Horror

The People Under The Stairs is described as a contemporary Downton Abbey meets The Amityville Horror.

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the old school hip hop method of production

Preferring the old school hip hop method of production, involving scouring records shops for old vinyl to use as samples then looping a steady beat and rapping over a steady beat , People Under the Stairs creates music that harks back to the origin of hip hop.

a bizarro freakshow masterpiece

The People Under the Stairs' is a bizarro freakshow masterpiece, and one of 'Shocker's most underrated movies.

a social critique not so eloquently masked by a horror story

Directed by Wes Craven, The People Under the Stairs is a social critique not so eloquently masked by a horror story.

a bizarre film, , a journey into the minds of crazies as seen by Foola 13 year old boy trying to help Fool's family

The People Under the Stairs is a bizarre film, a journey into the minds of crazies as seen by Fool, a 13 year old boy trying to help Fool's family.