 Hello everybody, E here welcome back to 31 days of halloween today. I'm giving you a movie movie Movie review today. We are talking about the people under the stairs Directed I believe written also by West Craven if you want to know how bad my memory is I just watched this on Sunday with a handful of you guys There was it was a lot of fun only JB Taylor watched it with me Maybe next time we can find something that everybody wants to watch or you guys can just come and hang out Hoping to do Sunday cinemas every single Sunday, but we'll see what happens This is one of my favorite horror movies in a long list of them I know I say things are favorites all the time But this one really is near and dear to my heart. It is a fun Super fun movie The performances are over the top the writing is at times hilarious the mother Character is very disturbing to me. In fact, all of her scenes really really get underneath my skin But she is balanced by what we call What we called kink daddy Because at one point in time. Well, I don't want to spoil it for you But you'll you'll find out when you watch it Or if you watched it with me or heard me talking about it on the live stream, then you know, you already know what I'm talking about but the I Think the movie is is a perfect a Perfect example of the time frame in which it was made when horror movies They're not really taken too seriously And I love that West Craven did that, you know, then he had a lot of really funny moments The the story follows fool who is a 15 year old boy and his I I was talking during the video and I can't remember I was talking during the movie and I can't remember who Ving Reigns his character is to fool But yeah, his name is Leroy Leroy has a partner in crime named Spencer and they are going to rob the Rich family or the rich couple that live in the neighborhood It's kind of like a Peter not Peter a Robin Hood story Where they're going to steal so that fool can help pay for his mother's cancer surgery and pay their rent and all of that stuff They the couple that eat the villains of the story Own pretty much all of the neighborhood the liquor store so on and so forth. In fact, there's a little bit of a subplot with Leroy and Spencer having had robbed the liquor store. I believe the night before sometime earlier on the The couple are super racist So if you if you don't want to hear the n-word or any of that type of stuff, there's a lot of Implied racism also not just the overt use of the n-word. In fact, one of the strongest things for me Is when fool goes dressed as the Boy Scout to scout out the house boy scouts got it anyways He goes to scout out the house and the woman is absolutely terrified of him Anyways, so the couple has a teenage girl that you can be assumed is their child And that teenage girl kind of has been well not kind of she has been abused and neglected And it's terrifying what they've done to her But the movie is called the people under the stairs and there are people under the stairs. This isn't anything supernatural But there's cannibalism. There is Abuse there's a lot of heavy topics in here, but West Craven still manages to make it a very I Don't want to say light horror comedy, but it is nowhere near as dark and you know Just utterly appalling as something like the last house on the left But yeah, I completely loved everything about this I don't really do the characters pacing and dread for for movies because I found some movies that you know Have absolutely nothing going on entertaining With regards to character pacing and dread So I'm but I'll use that here the characters are fantastic even the over-the-top ones The the pacing is a bit slow at parts I didn't remember whole chunks of this movie that that were slower All I remembered were the big, you know, not set pieces But the big scenes in the movie like them being chased and so on and so forth I am also impressed by the fact that this For the majority of this hour and 40 minute movie They don't leave the house. It is all them chasing My one criticism might be that they ran out of things to do with these characters in this house So there are repeated chase scenes that are almost identical to one another There is the death of an animal in here. So if you're worried about that, you know, stay away There is I I'm trying to think if there's anything else that I want to talk about that isn't too much of a spoiler I would love if somebody out there would be willing to go back and watch the movie along with my my commentary And see if it works while you watch the movie there are commercial breaks because I watched it free on peacock with ads So you'd have to pause whenever the commercial start. I do tell people when the commuter commercial started But anyways, this one is is a movie that I have long I wanted to own and I just never bought I watched it like I said free on peacock But after watching it, I'm going to add the blu-ray to my collection because I'm gonna watch this, you know Over and over again oddly enough. Here's a little bit of a Mandela effect kind of thing I could have sworn that this Movie was based was set on Halloween night. And that's one of the reasons why I wanted to watch it I even say in the video that I think this is a Halloween movie. It is not So if you're looking for it is it is a horror movie There are some truly creepy and unsettling scenes in here, but there is also a lot of laughter That's something that I find, you know, I Find West Craven was really really good at it. And I miss his social commentary. I miss I miss all that stuff He was a very fine writer and director and he just made good good cinema I think last thing I want to note here is the The the way the movie plays out there there is an definitely a nostalgia effect and Maybe you won't like the over-the-top acting and you won't like the cheesy dialogue and you won't like it But I think it's near and dear to my heart My heart is I want to go see this in theaters when I was young when it first came out I had to been a teenager at the time because it came out in the 90s And I was a teenager for all of the 90s. I'm dating myself. I'm 41 years old. I have no problem saying that I'm very happy with how old I am But there might be a bit of nostalgia here that that made me love this more than I probably should Have I don't know watch it for yourself make your own, but I'm gonna give five stars My highest possibly possible rating because like Howard Duck my favorite movie of all time. Yes. I'm not exaggerating I'm not know hyperbole. That's my favorite movie of all the time. So take that into consideration when you take my You know when you hear my opinion of this movie, but have you seen the people out under the stairs? If you have let me know what you thought about it down there in the doobly-doo whether or not you loved it Whether not you hated it whether or not you felt meh about it But if you felt any of those things tell me why in detail so that we can have a discussion But until next time I have any you have in you This been another episode of 31 days of halloween. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye