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*FreezeFrameBonus: In the room (which appears to be some sort of religious shrine) where Man attempts to impale Fool through the wall with his bayonet, a framed picture of Ronald Reagan himself can be seen for a split second as the camera quickly pans across the screen. Fitting.
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** Fool's pretty good at reading people and situations, which makes it all the odder when he simply stares at the obvious schmuck bait.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Fool's grandfather vanishes after he confronts Mommy, not even visible in the crowd shots that follow.
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A wonderfully bizarre horror movie, ''The People Under the Stairs'' has some of the structure of a fairy tale with Fool needing to save Alice from her insane captors. Throw in some surprisingly frightening villains and some social commentary and it's a memorable, if unusual, movie. In 1992 and 1993, the movie was adapted into [[Ride/ThePeopleUnderTheStairs a haunted house]] at Ride/UniversalStudios' ''Theatre/HalloweenHorrorNights''. [[Ride/ThePeopleUnderTheStairsUnderConstruction A sequel]] to this house later followed in 2006.
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A wonderfully bizarre horror movie, ''The People Under the Stairs'' has some of the structure of a fairy tale with Fool needing to save Alice from her insane captors. Throw in some surprisingly frightening villains and some social commentary and it's a memorable, if unusual, movie. In 1992 and 1993, the movie was adapted into [[Ride/ThePeopleUnderTheStairs a haunted house]] at Ride/UniversalStudios' ''Theatre/HalloweenHorrorNights''. [[Ride/ThePeopleUnderTheStairsUnderConstruction A sequel]] sequel to this house later followed in 2006.
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* ABirthdayNotABreak: The events of the film take place during Fool's birthday, from morning until some time in the early evening.
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* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: The events of the film take place during Fool's birthday, from morning until some time in the early evening.
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* TheSociopath: Mommy and Daddy Robeson, who raise rent on their properties arbitrarily and kidnap children to raise, eventually mutilating them and locking them under the stairs when they do anything they disapprove of.
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* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: Birthday.
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* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: Birthday.The events of the film take place during Fool's birthday, from morning until some time in the early evening.
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* BigBadDuumvirate: Mommy and Daddy.
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* RefugeInAudacity: The Police are fairly quick to respond to calls of trouble at the home of Mommy and Daddy, but the crimes of the two maniacs are so outrageous that it makes it almost impossible to believe that these two seemingly normal people could have done anything like imprisoning/mutilating children.
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* RefugeInAudacity: The Police police are fairly quick to respond to calls of trouble at the home of Mommy and Daddy, but the crimes of the two maniacs are so outrageous that it makes it almost impossible to believe that these two seemingly normal people could have done anything like imprisoning/mutilating children.
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* SecondaryCharacterTitle: The titular people are the Robesons' previous victims, trapped under the stairs after being mutilated.
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A wonderfully bizarre horror movie, ''The People Under the Stairs'' has some of the structure of a fairy tale with Fool needing to save Alice from her insane captors. Throw in some surprisingly frightening villains and some social commentary and it's a memorable, if unusual, movie.
movie. In 1992 and 1993, the movie was adapted into [[Ride/ThePeopleUnderTheStairs a haunted house]] at Ride/UniversalStudios' ''Theatre/HalloweenHorrorNights''. [[Ride/ThePeopleUnderTheStairsUnderConstruction A sequel]] to this house later followed in 2006.
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* BunkerWoman: Inverted: Alice is the ''only'' abducted child in the house whom "Mommy" and "Daddy" ''don't'' confine to the basement, and is the only girl among them. Roach is loose in the crawlspaces, but only because he escaped the cellar.
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* BunkerWoman: Inverted: Alice is the ''only'' abducted child in the house whom "Mommy" and "Daddy" ''don't'' confine to the basement, and is appears to be the only girl among them. Roach is loose in the crawlspaces, but only because he escaped the cellar.
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* BunkerWoman: Inverted: Alice is the ''only'' abducted child in the house whom "Mommy" and "Daddy" ''don't'' confine to the basement, and is the only girl among them. Roach is loose in the crawlspaces, but only because he escaped that far.
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* BunkerWoman: Inverted: Alice is the ''only'' abducted child in the house whom "Mommy" and "Daddy" ''don't'' confine to the basement, and is the only girl among them. Roach is loose in the crawlspaces, but only because he escaped that far.the cellar.
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* BunkerWoman: Inverted: Alice is the ''only'' abducted child in the house whom "Mommy" and "Daddy" ''don't'' confine to the basement. Roach is loose in the crawlspaces, but only because he escaped that far.
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* BunkerWoman: Inverted: Alice is the ''only'' abducted child in the house whom "Mommy" and "Daddy" ''don't'' confine to the basement.basement, and is the only girl among them. Roach is loose in the crawlspaces, but only because he escaped that far.
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* BunkerWoman: Inverted: Alice is the ''only'' abducted child in the house whom "Mommy" and "Daddy" ''don't'' confine to the basement. Roach is loose in the crawlspaces, but only because he escaped that far.
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* TreasureRoom: Mommy & Daddy have one where they hoard all their wealth, alongside stacks of dynamite and a chemistry labratory.
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* CoolGuns: Daddy's weapons of choice are a pump-action shotgun and a Desert Eagle.
* HomeAloneAntics: A very, ''very'' dark take on it. Even if Mommy and Daddy are the ones who have loaded the house with secret passages and traps up to the literal wazoo and should know them by heart, Fool and Alice and Roach are the ones that take the most advantage of them to move around stealthily and protect themselves (Roach has even been living on them for what seems like ''years'', even with Daddy constantly hunting him down).
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* TheNineties: News footage of the bombing of Baghdad in the Persian Gulf War plays on a TV outside one of the captives' cells.
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* TheNineties: News footage of the bombing of Baghdad in the Persian Gulf War plays on a TV outside one of the captives' cells. This is pretty important because [[spoiler:when Fool presents the coins that Roach gave to him to a friend of the family, the man says that the couple of coins alone can pay for Fool's mother's operation and pay in full the family's rent... all the way to ''the year 2000''.]]
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* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Daddy's main weapon is a pump-action shotgun that can have [[BayonetYa a bayonet attacked to it for stabbing people through the walls]].
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* BrotherSisterIncest: Grampa Booker warns Fool not to get involved with "that brother-sister act" after his first escape.
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* BrotherSisterIncest: Grampa Booker warns Fool not to get involved with "that brother-sister act" after his first escape. It's implied that it's a family tradition.
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* TheFool: Fool's nicknamesake. Played fairly straight, Fool gets by because he's clever, but he's damn lucky every time it counts.
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* KidHero: Fool. This is taken to HomeAlone ''Film/HomeAlone'' levels at a few points.
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Although Alice and the eponymous People [[spoiler:aren't at all related]], she and Roach really care about each other. She feeds him (even though she knows she'll be beaten if/when she's caught) and he helps Fool find and rescue her.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Fool goes from a timid coward not wanting to enter the house, to a clever genius who [[spoiler:kills their rabid dog by luring him to a wall to get stabbed by Dad]]. He goes back to the house without fear, sets the rest of the trapped boys free and [[spoiler:blows the house up with dynamite, killing Daddy]].
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* TookALevelInBadass: Fool goes from a timid coward not wanting to enter the house, to a clever genius who [[spoiler:kills their rabid dog by luring him to a wall to get stabbed by Dad]].Daddy]]. He goes back to the house without fear, sets the rest of the trapped boys free and [[spoiler:blows the house up with dynamite, killing Daddy]].
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** Alice begins as a shy innocent damsel afraid of Mommy and Daddy to an impressive hero in her own right, who quickly turns the tables on them and gets angry when they threaten to kill Fool, attacks Mom from above when she attempts to kill Fool's Sister, and then stabs and weakens her, ultimately making Mom afraid of her instead, and giving the rest of the boys a chance to maul her to death.
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** Alice begins as a shy innocent damsel afraid of Mommy and Daddy to an impressive hero in her own right, who quickly turns the tables on them and gets angry when they threaten to kill Fool, attacks Mom Mommy from above when she attempts to kill Fool's Sister, and then stabs and weakens her, ultimately making Mom Mommy afraid of her instead, and giving the rest of the boys a chance to maul her to death.
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* NoNameGiven: "Daddy" and "Mommy" are never given full names. Even in the credits, they're only listed as "Man" and "Woman".
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* NoNameGiven: "Daddy" and "Mommy" are never given full names. Even in the credits, they're only listed as "Man" and "Woman".[[note]]Though near the end of the film, the 'Woman' yells for the Man and calls him 'Eldon' in a very quick tossed off line, so maybe they originally did have names that were cut later and the editing team missed one.[[/note]]
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* MuggingTheMonster: Leroy's plan for Home-Invasion Robbing The Monster.
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* MuggingTheMonster: Leroy's plan for Home-Invasion Robbing The Monster.
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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: For most of the movie we only see Daddy using the gimp suit as a sort of bizarre battle armor, [[spoiler: but after Fool escapes the first time, Mommy calls Daddy a "bad boy" and tells him "go straight to your room and get into your suit."]]
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* AuthorAppeal: Creator/WesCraven's [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet continued love for booby traps]] and [[Film/TheHillsHaveEyes survivalist tactics.]]
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* AuthorAppeal: Creator/WesCraven's [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet continued love for booby traps]] and [[Film/TheHillsHaveEyes [[Film/TheHillsHaveEyes1977 survivalist tactics.]]
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* MadWomanInTheAttic: The titular people under the stairs. Though their deformities and mental problems are the result of abuse from the villains.
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* MadWomanInTheAttic: MadwomanInTheAttic: The titular people under the stairs. Though their deformities and mental problems are the result of abuse from the villains.
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* ActorAllusion: Mommy and Daddy are played by Wendy Robie and Everett [=McGill=], who played married couple Ed and Nadine Hurley on ''TwinPeaks''.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Film/PulpFiction Marsellus Wallace]] is Leroy and [[Series/MySoCalledLife Rayanne Graff]] is Alice.
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* TongueTrauma: The fate of the rejected boys.
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* SurpriseSlideStaircase: The steps from the basement fold down as Fool ascends them. He's able to climb up the slide itself immediately after slipping to the bottom, as the wooden steps aren't that smooth even after they tilt to form a slope.
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** As well as a fireplace poker actually breaking in half after it hit him once.
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* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: [[spoiler: Averted and used by the villains; Daddy smokes a pipe while the police are visiting so he'll appear normal to them.
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* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: [[spoiler: Averted and used by the villains; Daddy smokes a pipe while the police are visiting so he'll appear normal to them. ]]
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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: For most of the movie we only see Daddy using the gimp suit as a sort of bizarre battle armor, [[spoiler: but after Fool escapes, Mommy calls him a "bad boy" and tells him "go straight to your room and get into your suit."]]
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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: For most of the movie we only see Daddy using the gimp suit as a sort of bizarre battle armor, [[spoiler: but after Fool escapes, escapes the first time, Mommy calls him Daddy a "bad boy" and tells him "go straight to your room and get into your suit."]]
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* EternallyPearlyWhiteTeeth: Roach apparently has time for dental hygiene while he's hiding from Mommy and Daddy.
