| 1 | * CompleteMonster: [[WouldHurtAChild "Mommy" and "Daddy" Robeson]] are a pair of [[VillainousIncest incestuous siblings]] known as cutthroat landlords in a poor neighborhood, evicting tenants ruthlessly. Even worse in private, the Robesons abduct children from poor families and hideously abuse them, cutting out "the bad parts" from them and imprisoning them under the stairs while killing any intruders and feeding them to the imprisoned and starving kids. When the hero, Fool, is lost in their house, the Robesons spare no effort to try to find and kill him while abusing their abducted child Alice. When Alice discovers the truth and rejects "Mommy" as her mother, the latter tries to kill her, screaming at her to burn in hell. |
| 2 | * CultClassic: While not the most well-known Creator/WesCraven movie, it has grown more popular over time thanks to its unusual BlackComedy and/or social commentary on class and race. In fact, it has become popular enough for Creator/JordanPeele to consider [[TheRemake remaking]] the movie. |
| 3 | * EnsembleDarkhorse: He has less than fifteen minutes of screen time, but fans are especially fond of Roach (Creator/SeanWhalen) for his HomeAloneAntics and BigBrotherInstinct towards Alice. |
| 4 | * {{Narm}}: The entire neighborhood showing up in the middle of the night to confront Mommy and Daddy definitely crosses into this. In fairness, it's outright stated that Mommy and Daddy have been gouging the rent and kidnapping and murdering children. Even before considering Fool's apparent popularity, the oddness is less that people step up than that they don't outright riot. |
| 5 | * ToyShip: Fool and Alice. |
| 6 | * TheWoobie: |
| 7 | ** If anyone is set up to be this, it's Alice. Alice is kidnapped from her parents and raised in an atmosphere of complete fear where the slightest step out of line could get her mutilated and locked in the basement for the rest of her life. She's beaten, forcibly bathed in steaming hot water, and possibly sexually abused. |
| 8 | ** [[spoiler: Roach, when he gets shot, even before that]]. |
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