In light of the recent discussion and hint at Arrow releasing The People Under The Stairs, I dug a VHS out and watched for the first time and...
What.
I definitely enjoyed, but it was like it had no idea what it wanted to be. It started out all weird like your typical ghetto story, then tried to play a serious horror, then became Mommie Dearest with that guy from Twin Peaks running around in a gimp suit with a shotgun (which was awesome by the way), then started seeming like a mega repetitive kid movies with riches and the happy ending, and it went on and on and on. At one point I thought I was watching an uber demented version of Mouse Hunt.
It was certainly a fun and interesting, but by far NOT Wes Cravens best work, or a horror classic. And if that is one of the best 90's horrors, it confirms my suspicions that 90's horror is as shit as I remember it being.
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