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Black Horror: The People Under the Stairs

Sat, Mar 12 / 6pm
Directed by Wes Craven
1991, USA, 102 min

Join us on Saturday, March 12 for a live Bikini Drive-In discussion with Olivia Norquay and Mahlet Cuff.

When young Fool (Brandon Adams) breaks into the home of his family’s greedy and uncaring landlords, he discovers a disturbing scenario where incestuous adult siblings have mutilated a number of boys and kept them imprisoned under stairs in their large, creepy house. As Fool attempts to flee before the psychopaths can catch him, he meets their daughter, Alice (A.J. Langer), who has been spared any extreme discipline by her deranged parents. Can Fool and Alice escape before it’s too late?

Black Horror: Perspectives & Interventions is generously sponsored by IATSE 856 Manitoba.

Reviews

Horror’s true effectiveness is executed when it's busy making us uncomfortable in our comforts. The everyday and mundane that lures us into a false sense of security can become the very sight of anxiety. [Wes Craven]... does so with a certain complexity and I think his sleepers don't get the attention they deserve.
- Ashlee Blackwell, Cinema Axis
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