“The People Under The Stairs” is a 1991 horror movie directed by Wes Craven. Pointdexter aka “Fool”, a young black teenager lives in a LA Ghetto and one day his whole family is evicted by their local slumlords, the Robesons.
Fool is warned by his grandfather that the Robesons are in fact brother and sister but live as a couple and keep tons of inbreds, talk about loco. However Leroy (Fool’s sister’s friend) has a great idea: he should rob the Robsesons’ house to revenge! The boy reluctantly agrees to assist him. Leroy first poses as a boy scout selling cookies and asks to use the bathroom, in vain. Then Spencer, an accomplice, pretends to be a government worker of some sort but is denied entry as well. Spencer doesn’t come back so Leroy and Fool decide to break in by force.
They discover a high-security environment with old fashioned furnitures. Fool ends up in the basement and realizes the rumors were actually true: the crazy “couple” keeps inbreds in the house, many of them are mutilated and reduced to being cannibalistic animals. The Robesons come back and shoot Leroy, killing him in the process. (Read More…)
Candyman is a slasher movie from 1992. It’s an adaption from Clive Barker’s short story ‘The Forbidden’. Interestingly the story was switched from England to the hoods of Chicago.
The movie is starring a then semi-cute Virginia Madsen who plays Helen Lyle, a graduate student conducting research on urban legends (how common is that?). A local urban legend says if you pronounce ‘Candyman’ five times in front of a mirror, the ‘ghost’ of David Robitaille aka the Candyman would appear and try to kill you.
Robitaille was a Black man living in the 19th century. The son of a slave, he became a gifted painter.One day, a wealthy man asked for his services. He wanted a portrait of a his daughter, and guess what our friend David did: he got the girl pregnant. Daddy wasn’t too happy about this and hired a group of thugs to teach him a lesson. They caught him, cut off his hand and smeared honey over his body. Bees came and a painful death ensued. Yummy, isn’t it?
Helen becomes curious about the legend after a mysterious murder that took place in the projects. As she arrives in the hood, she’s greeted by the local wankstas who try to scare her. Could Candyman be behind this?
Obviously Helen isn’t very smart because one day at home as she goes like “Candyman Candyman, Candyman “… you know the rest. Candyman comes to “life” and wows to seduce/kill her.
Yes Candyman is a perv, you never know if he means to rape or kill the girl. The missing hand (covered by a hook) and bee-filled body gives him a distinctive style. But distinctive doesn’t necessarily equate with suave.
The rest of the flick is exactly what you can expect from a slasher movie: blood,decapitated dog heads,huge fires,etc… In the end, in an heroic act Helen saves a baby from a certain death but ends up losing her own life.
What I really enjoyed about Candyman was the gritty visual aspect. The grainy picture and shady environment gives the movie a very distinct vibe.Classic 90’s horror movie.
This slasher flick is indeed a classic – just look at that poster, pure awesome! In the 80′s there were many cheesy horror movies that came out, and some might say this is one of them but I say – fuck you.
Set in a sorority house, the movie starts off with a flashback from when the house mother lost her baby on a stormy night. She was trying to give birth and the doctor couldn’t do much to help. It’s now years later and the house mother is running shit in the house with an iron fist. Everyone’s scared of her because she’s just a mean old bitch.
“The People Under The Stairs” is a 1991 horror movie directed by Wes Craven. Pointdexter aka “Fool”, a young black teenager lives in a LA Ghetto and one day his whole family is evicted by their local slumlords, the Robesons.
