Too Scary; Didn't Watch - THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS

Episode Date: January 24, 2024

One nightmarish house, two terrifying landlords, and countless upsetting sequences, we're recapping Wes Craven's THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS!Movie stats @ 20:43Recap begins @ 24:05TrailerFollow the show: @TSDWpodcast on Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram.Check out our Patreon for bonus episodes and additional content!Rate Too Scary; Didn’t Watch 5 Stars on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and leave a review for Emily, Henley, and Sammy.Advertise on Too Scary; Didn't Watch via Gumball.fmSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a HeadGum Podcast. This is Emily, Henley, and Sammy, and you're listening to Too Scary, Didn't Watch. Hi everyone, welcome to Too Scary, Didn't Watch, the horror movie recap podcast for those too scared to watch for themselves. I'm Emily, and I am too scared to watch scary movies. I'm Henley, and I'm also too scared to watch scary movies. I'm Sammy, and I love watching scary movies, and so I watch them so that you don't have to. And we've got a patron chosen episode for you guys today. Very exciting.

And if you want to jump straight to our recap, check out our timestamps in the episode notes and navigate to wherever you... We're simply never going to not talk for 20 minutes up top. We're just never going to do it. But you don't have to listen. You don't have to listen to it. You can skip it. to do it, but you don't have to listen. You don't have to listen to it. You can skip it.

There's links in the episode notes because I gotta know if anything scary happened to us this week. Gotta know. Well, it was scary not being here for last week's episode. It was scary. I hated it. Oh, I hate it. I hate it when you're not here.

I hate it when you're not here, Emily, because I need to know what your reaction is. The whole time I'm thinking, what would Emily think? Well, I listened. And what did you think? I mean, what did you think about the masks? The anti-masker that Kevin Williams said?

I did think he made an interesting and valid point, that it does make me wonder. It does make me wonder um but that was scary i hate to be i hate to be away but i'm gonna talk about something else do it and i'm sorry and i'm sorry to talk about this no don't apologize what's going on with me which is that um okay i i changed my hair recently wait i want to know emily i changed my hair recently. Wait, I want to know, Emily. I changed my hair recently. Because sometimes you gotta just change your hair.

And it's fucking fine to do. Also, Emily, it looks so good. Thank you. I just need to start this by saying, if anyone who's listening doesn't know what Emily looks like, she looks dang good. Thank you so much. I used to have very, very, very blonde hair.

I had like bleach blonde hair, platinum blonde hair for many years. And I loved it. I love it. It's to this day. It's my it's my favorite way for my hair to be. But guess what? It's really damaging to your hair and it's expensive and it's a lot of upkeep. And it's just like it's a lot.

And I hit a point where I was like, my hair is telling me it's time to move on and I'm going to listen to it. It took me a while's time to move on and i'm gonna listen to it it took me a while to listen to it but i decided to listen to it and it's i like change changing your hair is such a fun way to like feel different it's easy it's hair it's temporary you can do fucking anything to it it'll grow back whatever so i went for a big change dyed my hair very very dark brown and you know i was always scared to do a big there were a couple days where i would look every time i'd catch a reflection of myself. I'd be like, holy shit. Like, I would like get scared.

You know, it's like a stranger in the house. Stranger in the house. I think about that myself when I get my nails done. I look at my hand. I think, whose hand is that? Whose hand is that? I can only imagine if your hair is different. You know?

Yeah. Yeah. But that's all fine. You know, that's part of it. That's fine. That's good. Whatever. Who cares?

I have to tell you guys, you know, some of this already. Sam, I think you know more of it. What? The craziest fucking thing has been happening, which is that I have had truly so many people that I work with, all of them being women above the age of 50, letting me know how much they don't like it. What? Wait, no. Just being like,

oh, you changed your hair. Why? Yeah, so there's been, it started with a lot of that. It started with a lot of like, oh, you changed your hair. Yeah, why? No. Then a little more direct, I got some oh, the blonde was

So sophisticated Sophisticated I got some of that I got Then I also started getting a few days After the first day showing up Which is also it's like you know that you're always like Nobody is thinking about you as much as they're thinking about you

But in this case I was like Why the fuck is everybody thinking and talking about my hair like it like felt so crazy so then i got a couple days of people women that i work with coming up to me like i really like your hair with a tone of like fuck everyone who says you look nasty like it was so obvious like it was like i'm gonna give you a compliment Because everybody hates how bad Your hair looks And then it sort of has died down it's been a couple weeks You know whatever this is what I look like now

Fucking get over it And then on Friday I had need I have not told this to you guys On Friday night A woman who I do not know I do not know this woman's name We do not work in the same department i don't know what department she works in walks right up to me at the end of the day

and it took me a second to process what she had said because she said it to me in spanish so what she said to me was this is this is a direct translation you were prettier With your hair blonde Oh my god These ladies need to shut the fuck up She walks right up to me And says you used to be prettier With your hair blonde

And I'm like What Am I supposed to say to this Why What Why do I need to say this? Why? What? Why do I need to know that you think this? What do you expect me to do about it?

Why do I care that you think this? And you don't know her. And I don't know you. Whoa. It's as if the vibe is as if I have like. Is she above 50 as well? it is that I have like feeling as if I have like offended

these people by changing my hair that they need to let me know that I have disappointed them I'm so mad because they're so weird. Objectively wrong. They're also objectively wrong.

And that's really crazy. Doesn't fucking matter. Maybe, maybe my maybe I look really ugly right now. So weird to comment. It's so weird to comment. It's so weird to comment. It's like they think that they have some kind of ownership over you when they literally don't even know you it's so weird even if they did they have no ownership over it's just like right no no of course of course it's so it is so it has been i've never

experienced anything like it it has been so completely insane it has happened i. I'm telling you. I'm telling you seven, I think seven or eight different people. Wow. I'm my mouth is just a gape. I truly can't close my mouth. It's on the floor. My jaw is on the floor. I feel so exposed and vulnerable in a workplace, no matter what. It's my idea of being in a workplace where matter what. The idea of being in a

workplace where someone is commenting on my appearance that much. In a way to tell you that it's bad. It gives me heart palpitations. It's been... I can't... It's so stupid to get on the podcast and talk

about my hair. Whatever. It's mainly just that this has been the strangest thing to experience over and over again. These women being like, I don't like your hair. What the fuck are you supposed to say?

What do you say back? Like, oh, you know what? Let me go back and just dye it blonde again for you. For you, specifically. Yeah back and just dye it blonde again for you for you specifically yeah honestly Emily this makes me want to cry it makes me want to cry rude it's so rude and it was like the week I got back from work after New Year's and I had I was also dealing with like immediate wedding stress and like being back at work and I dyed my hair and everyone told me That it was disgusting I was like I

I want to go home and die Like I would just like to go home and be dead And not exist In this space For the rest of my life Into thin air It's just been a weird time But you know what this one on Friday because it was so

Surprising and so rude Like just this thing you can't say to someone Like it's just been a weird time but you know what This one on Friday because it was so Surprising and so rude Like just the thing you can't say to someone Like it's just like so rude It all now I'm like I'm gonna dye my hair fucking jet black like I'm Like fuck you I'm gonna give Myself Courtney Cox from Scream 4 or whatever

Terrible bangs I'm gonna dye my hair black Fuck you I'm gonna have the worst hair you've ever Seen Just to defy were terrible bangs. I'm going to dye my hair black. Fuck you. I'm going to have the worst hair you've ever seen. Just to defy. I would want it to be black. I think you would look good with that. I want to go up to that woman and be like, what the fuck is your problem? I, now I'm like,

what is your problem? What is her problem? What do we think her problem is? I think that there's something, I bet that. But it's not just one lady, think that there's something i bet that it's not just one lady it's like eight ladies emily it's because they're okay they're jealous of your youth and your beauty they're like i think they like are like mad i squandered the ability to have blonde hair or something they're like disappointed in me it's really weird you guys i don't know it who cares you know a deep-seated um patriarchal thing they're dealing with and in their own maybe i can't say i'm enjoying it

no it sounds really annoying and i'm sorry that that that has been happening and they're obviously completely wrong you look gorgeous you do i love your hair thank you but just the greater point is that it's okay if i don't but it's not okay to tell me that you think that either way it's like keep your thoughts to yourself cannot be telling people what we think about their physical appearance um if they're we don't know them if they haven't asked for that if it's not kind we just simply can't be doing it we can't be doing it and a lot of people are doing it i've just i haven't i haven't had that experience in a long time and so it does feel shocking but yeah people i guess are still doing that they're still doing that people are still doing that and they gotta stop and they they

really gotta stop so that's i guess it's kind of scary that people are still doing that yeah i don't love it that is a little scary so how about how about you guys henleyley, are you too seething mad to even say a thing now? There's steam coming out of her ears. I've been racking my brain for anything interesting to talk about. I have nothing. I have nothing to offer. Saz got the stomach flu. That was pretty scary.

We watched Kiki's Delivery Service. I need to see that one. Yeah, we just watched Miyazaki films for like 36 hours straight and while I placed towels and bowls around him

to catch in an effort to catch as much vomit. Yeah, I guess when you're two, you decide you have to vomit and you just go for it. Yeah, it's any... Oh, he vomited all over your bed, didn't he? That's scary.

Well, he first started by vomiting all... Well, he woke up from his nap a little earlier than usual and he was moaning going, Mommy! But to be honest honest he does this a lot so i was like this is a little more extreme than normal but kind of just being dramatic and so i brought him into my bedroom and we're like cuddling on the couch together and he's like waking up or wait on my bed which i gotta tell you white sheets

white duvet white comforter white everything white blanket why do i do this to myself and um uh oh yeah then you before i know it he's just throwing up literally all over my bed i'm like how do i get to my phone as quickly as possible so I can text him that this has happened so I can force him to come home. ASAP as I'm like, trying to hedge the difference between like, comforting him but also like controlling where the vomit goes. Yeah. And then from then on, it was like, a good solid 12 hours of vomiting. And then from then on, it was like a good solid 12 hours of vomiting. And baby May is also sick. She has some kind of cold situation. It's different than the stomach flu. She sounds like a little pug. She's freaking she's like she sleeps in a little bassinet right next to our bed

and we sleep like face to face like over the course of the night I put her on her back and she like her face is up and then over the course of the night she like scoots, scoots, scoots, scoots, scoots and then faces me and I'm facing her so I can like comfort her

throughout the night too, you know? And so by the end of the night, we're like this, like face to face like this. And her little face is in front of mine going, making like the grossest little pug noises you've ever heard. And so I'm like, like fully sucking snot out of her nose every, you know, eight hours. snot out of her nose every eight hours using the Frida nose sucker. Anyone who's a parent is very familiar with the Frida nose sucking machine. Do you think it would work on

a cat? Yes, you should get one. Oh my God. It just sucks it right up. You just suck it right out. What do you think is the difference in nostril size between a cat and a tiny baby? Not a lot. Not a lot at all. Negligible.

Honestly, you should get one. They're at Target. They're at your local drugstore. I'm googling Frida Nose Sucker for cats? You don't even need it for cats. I'm pretty sure it would work on bunk. Bunk has just also, he's had a stuffy little nose for months now, and I had a sinus infection and I just feel like we're both little stuffy guys. You should get one.

Nasal aspirator for cats. It's a thing. All right. I'll get it. I'm sure he'll love that. Good luck, though. It's much harder than it even is with babies. Yeah, I would imagine so.

Much harder than it even is with babies. Yeah, I would imagine so. Bunk is at least trained for his inhaler. So he's like used to me putting a thing on his face. So you have to have them keep their heads still for a period of time. So you can, you know, so that would be the challenging part. You can use a baby aspirator on a cat's nose. But in my experience, it is not very effective.

And most cats don't like it. I mean, I can't imagine any cat liking it. You'd have to really hold his head in one place. Yeah, he's not going to like that. But, you know. Well, speaking of my cats, my boys, my sons turned eight this past weekend. Wow. Big, strapping, eightpping eight year old men.

What is that in human years? I don't know. I don't think there is quite a thing with cats like dogs. I don't even know what it is with dogs. Seven years I think but I think that's even not entirely accurate. I think cats on average live longer than dogs. Yeah.

Depending. But cats can live into like on average live longer than dogs. Yeah. Depending. But cats can live into their 20s. And I feel like most dogs are teens, live into their teens. Early teens. Yeah. Unless you're a chihuahua and then you can live to be like 18. Hell yeah.

Hell yeah. But I had a scary thing happen. I did a bad thing. So this is a PSA. So no one does the bad thing that I did, which is that it's not related to Mac and bunk turning eight. We were changing gears here. Okay. Which is that there was a bee on my doorstep for like a day,

like a full 24 hours. I kept passing it as I went in and out of the house and noticing. And the second day that I saw it, I went out and was checking if it was alive. And it was, but it was just not really moving around a lot. And so, I had heard that you could give them sugar water and that that can sometimes... They're just exhausted and they need energy to be able to fly again. And so I made some sugar water. I looked up like bee sugar water and I made some and put a little spoon out for her. I guess all worker bees are female. I did all my research and I left it out there. And then when I came back, she had like fallen into it and was covered in sugar water. And so she couldn't fly again. And

I looked up, can you wash a bee? And you can't. Oh, Sammy. I felt so bad. I really, really wanted wanted to help her I really love bees Can you wash a bee? I was like I'll put her in some water But so I moved her Onto some flowers For her to live out her final days

And the PSA Is that in now doing Further research It's better to just try to move them onto flowers in the first place. So they can eat from the flower without the risk of getting their wings stuck together. And if you do have to give them sugar water, just give it like a teeny tiny little drop and like supervise the feeding to make sure it doesn't get it's wing sticky this is inspiring me to be a goddamn beekeeper i would love to be a beekeeper sammy you'd be really good at that don't tell them about this incident but other than that this is a learning

when applying when applying a learning experience i did work on a documentary about murder hornets, which I learned a lot about bees during that experience. And they filmed a lot of beekeepers. And it just seems like a very peaceful thing. And I just feel like if you had bees, you would be happier, you know? I think that. I think it's just true. Can't anyone just, like, be a beekeeper, though? Couldn't I just, like, get into that if I wanted to?

You probably could, because I feel like there's space there. I'm just like, where would I keep bees? No, you need space. You need space. But I'm thinking about... But I do think, yeah, anybody can kind of probably do it. If you have a yard, you can do it. Yeah, any beekeepers out there, give us your tips you have a yard, you can do it. Yeah.

Any beekeepers out there, give us your tips and tricks. How'd you get into it? Are you allowed to just get some bees in your backyard? Where do you get bees? You probably have to find another beekeeper to like get you started. Are there any like, like what's the like, like community gardens, but like community beehives? Can you like join a group? There should be.

There should be because bees are extremely important to the environment. I bet there's some sort of community beehive situation in LA that you could join. I'm going to look into it. I am going to join the handbell troop and I'm going to start a goddamn community beehive

in Greenwich, Connecticut. And a book club. Never see me again. You'll never see me again. What's Henley doing? She's either with her bees or bells or books. That's our Hadley. That's our Hadley.

Bees, bells, books. If I'm not being, I'm belling. And if I'm not belling, I'm booking. And if she's not doing any of those things, she may be with her baby. Those are the last. Last in the lineup. First check the bees, then check the bells, then check the books. Then check the babies.

Okay, should we get into this week's episode? Yes. Yes. This week, we are going to be recapping The People Under the Stairs. Came out in 1991, as I said. The patrons chose this. So, thank you, patrons. I'd been curious about this one for a while. It was written and directed by Wes Craven, starring Brandon Quinton Adams, Everett McGill, Wendy Roby, A.J. Langer, Sean Whalen, and Ving Rhames.

And it is available to rent on VOD. Have you guys heard about this movie before? I have not. I haven't, but I've seen so many people ask us to talk about it it's definitely something that's come up before yeah yeah it's not one that i i mean i guess it came out in 91 so we were little babies babies um so i obviously don't remember it coming out but i have heard about it over the years and have been meaning to check it out. And I really enjoyed it. The People Under the Stairs has a 70% on Rotten Tomatoes, 57% on Metacritic, 6.4 on IMDb. Budget was $6 million.

It made $31.3 million. And before he died, Wes Craven was working on developing this into a TV show and I guess that is not happening anymore, but Jordan Peele is currently producing a remake with Monkey Paw. I don't think he's directing. there might be another People Under the Stairs coming soon. Okay, interesting.

That's kind of exciting. Wendy Robin and Everett McGill were cast after Wes Craven saw them Okay. Interesting. this movie was some of the most fun she's ever had on a film set and one of her favorite projects she's ever done. Just in contrast to some actors rights violations that we sometimes talk about. It's nice to hear when someone has a really nice time on set. That is nice. I think it unfortunately might be one that's worse to hear about than to see. Damn. Yep. Because it's like early 90s kind of has still some of those 80s vibes where

the tone is actually pretty silly but the content is pretty disturbing so without you seeing the like unhinged crazy performances it might just sound very scary so we'll we'll keep that in mind people have warned us about this. I've ignored the warnings. I've tried to say as disconnected as possible. I haven't seen any warnings about this one. Yeah, I didn't either. I kind of didn't know that it was going to be too dark. I think the one we had Carl Tart on,

he was like, the people in the stairs scared me. I feel like I remember him saying that. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I feel like, maybe, did we watch like one of the documentaries we watched? They mentioned people under the stairs. I just feel like I've heard about this movie periodically throughout our podcasting. And it's made me worried.

Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, we're going to see how it goes. Yeah. Okay. Good luck to us all. Good luck to us all.

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Oh, no. Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. But we begin with a tarot reading. And we're seeing some tarot cards being laid down. This is, we're hearing the voices of a brother and sister, Ruby and Fool.

She pulls up the Fool card and says how that's him. And, you know, we look at the Fool card. There is someone looking like he's almost dancing at the edge of a cliff. Is that how you would describe it, Emily? It's like you're kind of moving through life. Not looking. Unaware of the dangers. Yeah. Around you. And it's like not necessarily a bad thing.

It's like a nice ignorance is bliss type of thing. But anyways, so this is maybe how he's gotten his nickname Fool. This is our protagonist. His real name is Poindexter. Really cute. But everybody calls him Fool after the terror. This is the little boy from the trailer. Yeah. He looks really cute but everybody calls him fool after the terror reading this is the little boy from the trailer

he looks really cute he's very cute and he's he says later that he's 13 I would have guessed 8 oh my god I would have guessed really young 13 year olds are really small it's crazy 13 is small well it also can really vary.

Kids can look very different at 13. It's true. Yep. So we go into the rest of the house and we see that Ruby and Fool's mother is sick in bed and they can't afford the treatment for her. And we meet a guy named Ler this is ving rames ving uh leroy tells fool that they're also because they're kind of like whispering to each other trying to communicate something that they don't want fool to hear leroy doesn't care about protecting fool's feelings or anything so he's like oh you guys are being evicted because you're late on your rent and you don't have enough money. He asks Fool if he's got any money to chip in.

Fool says no. And Leroy says, well, I know where you can earn some. We also have heard about the landlords of this building that are evicting them are called the Robesons.

And they own like 50 buildings in the area. And they're just basically waiting for everybody to move out so they can tear them all down and build office buildings type of thing. Evil landlords. Very unsympathetic to everyone's unique situations that whatever, like they don't care that she's needs to be in the hospital and whatever. So don't like these landlords. And so now we cut to the landlords in their big fancy house being very casually racist, being like, we need to clean up this neighborhood. It's getting disgusting. They're white, obviously. Obviously.

And they're referring to the black families that live in the building. And they're just like, we need to get this neighborhood nice and cleaned up. And just real villain shit. Mm-hmm. And they have a daughter named Alice, who they are also just being really mean to right off the bat. Just she comes in and brings them dinner, and they are just yelling at her like,

watch where you're going. Don't step on that or whatever. They're just being assholes to her as well. Now we go back to Fool, and he is walking into his building, and the set design on this is honestly like Bo is afraid. This is like the neighborhood is like as if there's like dogs jumping out and like fighting each other. It's like as if all of your anxieties of like, oh man, like, oh God. And there's just danger at every turn.

It just like really reminded me of the Bo's Afraid opening. But he goes into this apartment. I think maybe it's his sister's apartment. It's not the one that they live in. But Leroy and his sister Ruby are there. And Leroy tells him that he's found the landlord's address and has heard that they have basically like treasure, like coins that they were going to sell that are worth a lot of money.

I can't remember how he learns this, but he knows that they have some money in this house and wants to rob them. And Ruby tells them to leave, leave it alone. She doesn't like that house. There's weird stories about them and it's not a good idea. But it seems like Fool is being manipulated to feel like he needs to step up for his family because they're in a tight financial situation. So he secretly agrees to do this. So he secretly agrees to do this.

Back to the Robeson's house. Mrs. Robeson is feeding their daughter, Alice. Alice is also like 13. Mrs. Robeson and Mr. Robeson call each other mommy and daddy. Ew! Mommy. And so mommy is feeding Alice and is like, do you love your mommy? And she's like, yes, ma'am.

And she says, yes, ma'am. What? She says, yes, ma'am. I love my mommy. And it's very disturbing. Ew. Ew. She's clearing away her plate and starts yelling at her.

Where's your fork? And Alice is clearly very afraid of her and immediately starts panicking and saying, oh, I think I just dropped it. It's over here. Crawls on her hands and knees into the corner of the room and one of the vent covers, grate covers comes off and a very pale hand with long, nasty fingernails reaches out and hands her a fork. And she taps the hand like with like a nice little pat, like, thank you. And like closes it back up. OK. That's unexpected.

Yeah. And then the dad comes in and the mom is saying like, Alice has been so bad. She's been feeding that thing in the wall again. What's in the wall? And then the mom says to the dad or the dad starts like taking off his

belt and she says, remember not to bruise her face as she walks out. And the dad says, bad girls burn in hell. And we cut says, bad girls burn in hell. And we cut away from that. So pretty horrible. Now we're seeing outside Leroy and Fool and one of their friends, Spencer, are scoping the house.

They've got their van outside and they're kind of watching their movements and nobody's really coming in or out of the house so they make fool go to the front door dressed as a boy scout saying that he's selling cookies he knocks on the door and mommy answers it no mommy wait does she not have a name she has i could call her mrs robison she does not have a name and i want you to call her mommy she's credited as it's probably a word henley hears too much i don't think she wants a negative oh that's a good point no i i thought that to myself and then i thought no i'm just not gonna think about that i'm not gonna think about it fool goes up to the door she answers and is not letting him in saying, no, thank you. No, sorry, we don't want anything. And immediately slams the door in his face.

So he asks if he can come in and use the bathroom. She says no. So they switch tactics. And now Spencer is dressed as a gas company worker and goes up and says, I need to come in and check your gas meters. She says they're not inside. And he says, we have on our list here that they are. And we can call the police if you don't let us in. But Spencer's a white guy. And so, I feel like she's like a little less rude to him. Yeah. And is like, thinks like, oh, we can all be freely racist here. So she's like,

you know, there's just been so much more crime in the area. The neighborhood's really changing. So you got to be careful who you let in. And he's like, I totally understand. So she lets him in. Leroy and Fool are still in the van. And Leroy's getting really antsy being like, he better not take those coins for himself. He's going to steal all the coins. Doesn't trust Spencer. But we're watching the house waiting for Spencer to come out. Spencer does not come out. Oh.

And eventually, Mrs. Robeson comes out, gets in her car and drives away. Oh. So they decide to break in to see go find spencer and fool as they break in the first door there's like so many security doors it's like the front door opens into this little front room that has a big metal door that they're prying open and then the next room has another metal door. A thousand red flags. You're calling

the FBI immediately. They need to be getting the FBI on this. Fool is saying like, I don't think this is a good idea. He says it's the, I wrote down this quote because it really threw me. He says it's the first day of my 13th birthday That could be bad luck

The first day of your 13th birthday fool You only get one day Was that the day after His birthday or the first The day of his birthday I think what he means is the first day of his 13th year But it just kind of Made me laugh

First day of my 13th birthday Anyways And Leroy tells him But it just kind of made me laugh. First day of my 13th birthday. Anyways. And Leroy tells him he gets it. It is unlucky regardless because you're too old to get tit and too young to get pussy. Wow. Way too old to get tit. Way too old. Oh, you know, 13, the exact age where you're too old to get tit and too old Oh you know 13 the exact age

Where you're too old to get tit To be like What Just precisely in between Those two things just right There you've just arrived Oh yeah 13 that's what we all remember 13 as that's what we all remember 13 as. That's for sure.

Oh man. So they break past the second security door and Leroy's feeling really proud of himself. And then a Rottweiler runs and charges at them. Big old guard dog attacks Leroy. runs and charges at them big old guard dog attacks leroy uh they struggle with it for a while but are eventually able to lock it in the previous room that they have just come through so but now that's blocking the way they got in so i'm just thinking well that's probably not great so now they're in the kitchen there's's locks on everything, on all the cabinets. It's a very... The house is grungy. It's pretty gross inside. It's like messy and everything

looks really old and dark. And they're just feeling like it's got a weird vibe in here. They're hearing some noises in the walls. Leroy says, nice to know rich people get rats too. We think it's probably not rats. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And then he hears some steps overhead and thinks, that's Spencer. I'm going up there.

Make sure he's not getting those coins for himself. getting those coins for himself. So Leroy goes upstairs while Fool stays downstairs and Fool finds a cellar door, like a base goes down into a basement under the stairs. Oh no. And he finds Spencer's clipboard. He had like a gas worksheet prop thing on a clipboard, finds that and then sees some shadows moving down there and hears some moans and he gets scared and is about to run back up but then there was a moment earlier where leroy kind of tells him maybe he's not cut out for this maybe he's too scared and so he feels like he has to psych himself up, be brave. He goes

back down there and finds Spencer's dead body. Oh my god, they made quick work of that. Yeah. And Spencer does have a gold coin in his hand. But he's very clearly dead. And for some reason I think Fool is trying to get him

out of there. He's like, I'm going to get you out of here. But he's a small little boy and this is an adult man and he's dead. And for some reason, I think Fool is trying to get him out of there. He's like, I'm going to get you out of here. But he's a small little boy and this is an adult man and he's dead. And so, it seems like a waste of energy at this point. But as he's trying to grab him, we see there's all these wood planks kind of fencing off a different part of the basement. And we're seeing some lights coming from back there and hearing some moans and eventually see a bunch of people just down there. We don't get a good look at them and they're just going like,

not saying anything, almost like zombies. I really don't like moaning. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's not a nice sound. Although sometimes when you're sick, it feels really good to moan. I was going to say, when I heard, when you mentioned Silas moaning, I was like, I don't know. I don't think I ever let myself just like moan when I'm.

Something about it feels really nice. Uncomfortable. But I think that does sound nice. Lamaze breathing is a thing for a reason. It doesn't work. But when you're giving birth, you need to moan. You need to be like, oh. You need to breathe out.

I feel like it's not dissimilar to how we want a room to scream in a scream room, a padded soundproof scream room. It's like a release of something. There's no choice but to do like a guttural scream. And I feel like sometimes when you're really nauseous, you want to moan too. And also if you're a person trapped under the stairs, you might want to moan. You might want to moan. You might want to moan. You might want to moan. Let off some steam by moaning. Yeah, exactly.

So they start pulling Spencer's dead body under the wood fence thing. And Fool is pulling it back, trying to grab it back, saying, no, no. Like, what are you doing? He pulls it back. And they had gotten his arm and his arm is all torn and eaten. Now they were immediately chomping on him. This obviously terrifies fool.

So he, uh, jumps back. And then, uh, one of the people down there jumps on him and is yelling and it's very scary. And so he is able to throw him off and he runs back up the stairs to go into the house. When the stairs turn into a ramp, they flatten.

And so he slides all the way back down into the basement. This house is full of surprises. It's got lots of little tricks and traps. Wow. Yeah, it's a lot of work has been put into this house. You think they could put a little TLC into cleaning

it up, you know? True. Less. There's so much work into it. Less tricks and traps, more just general tidying. Yeah. Tricks, traps, and tidy. Tricks, traps, and tidying. Yeah, that's my goal for 2024. Less tricks and traps, more just general tidying. Yeah. Tricks, traps, and tidy. Tricks, traps, and tidying. Yeah, that's my goal for 2024. Less tricks and traps and more general tidying.

So he sees, he gets a good look at this one that jumped on his back. And it's hard to tell if this person is trying to hurt him or not because he jumped on his back which isn't a necessarily friendly gesture uh-uh but he's now not like attacking him he's kind of got his hands up and he's just going like oh oh but he's he can't speak it seems and so we don't know what he wants fool runs up ramp. He just like gets enough momentum that he doesn't even need the stairs. He gets up, gets back into the house and now sees Alice and tries to follow her. But as he does, he sees the Robesons coming home. Their car pulls into the driveway and Leroy has parked their van in their driveway, which I was like, this is so dumb

if you're robbing a place to park in that place's driveway. So now they're parked in because the other car has pulled in behind them and the Robesons are home. Mommy and daddy are home. Fool runs to find Leroy and tells him, we got to get out of here. Spencer's dead. They're home. So him, we got to get out of here. Spencer's dead.

They're home. So they run downstairs trying to get out of there. And they find the front door, which is different from the way they came in. There's like two entrances, thankfully. But they reach for the door handle and are immediately electrocuted. This is another little chicken chap, little booby chap. And so they can't open the front door. All the windows, by the way, are reinforced.

None of them are breakable. They're bulletproof glass, essentially. Jesus. That is bars on the windows. They're not going to be able to get out of a window. And because the Robesons are home now, they open the doors and let the dog in and so the dog runs in attacks Leroy fool comes up with an idea grabs Leroy's hand as the dog is biting Leroy touches that doorknob electrocutes all three of them. Ha! That's such a fool.

It stuns the dog. Dog is down for the count for the time being. They both run upstairs. Mr. Robeson obviously knows someone is in here and they're saying things like,

there must have been that gas electrician guy. He must have had a friend. They know that it was a scheme. Yeah. And so, Mr. Robeson has his shotgun and they're upstairs and Leroy hides in a closet and won't let fool in there with him. He's like, you find your own place. She's like, okay, asshole. So, but just as he closes himself in that closet, Mr. Robeson presses some button, flips a switch downstairs that locks every door in the house. It like goes into lockdown mode. Things slide over the windows. Who do you hire to do all of this? I don't know. And like, does that person ask any questions?

Like, why are you doing this? I mean, I guess maybe they can do it themselves, but it seems like a lot of particular knowledge you'd have to have. Yeah, they do. He's the Mr. Robeson seems like the type that might be into that kind of stuff. Yeah, he's clearly committed. Yeah. So all the doors are locked. Leroy's in a closet, but Fool did not make it in anywhere.

So he's just out in the hallway with nowhere to go into. And Mr. Robison is coming up the stairs. And then the same guy that jumped on Fool earlier bursts through a wall behind Leroy in the closet, causing Leroy to, like, break through the front of it, screaming, I guess. And because it really scares him, obviously. But then Mr. Robeson is right there, comes upstairs and shoots Leroy, kills him. Oh, my God. Okay, bye, Bing. Bye. Yeah. My God. Okay, bye, Bing.

Bye. And they are... Mommy and Daddy are going, Yee-haw! We got him! We got him! They start dancing. They go, Oh, Daddy! Oh, Daddy! And they're dancing around, celebrating killing him and it's very gross.

But the good news is that they don't suspect that fool is in the house. They think there was just one other person. So they're not necessarily checking. Like he was hiding like around a corner. And so they haven't seen him. They don't know that he's there. And Fool finds a vent cover that flips open.

That's just big enough for him to crawl through. And so he goes into where the other guy in the walls is that we saw alice feed earlier there's one that's seemingly able to move around the whole house through the walls where the other ones are all confined to this basement under the stairs is presumably the one who just did that to ving and the one who jumped on his back yeah i don't know why he did that to Ving. I think to save Fool. Yeah, maybe to save Fool. So Fool crawls in here and he finds some human remains

and he's really chill about it, doesn't scream, even though it's a very scary thing to see. Yeah. He is crawling around in there and Mr. Robeson does hear someone in the walls, but he thinks it's the guy that's normally in the walls. That's in the walls. Yes.

This is when it's nice to have somebody in the walls. Yes. And so that, that, the person in the walls, his name is Roach. And so he thinks it's Roach and he's yelling out, Roach, like I'm going to kill you. And Fool is crawling through little tunnels in between the walls in between the rooms and finds an entrance into a room that alice is in i think it's the just the bathroom and she's standing in there and she looks completely shocked and scared and is not saying anything and he says haven't you ever seen a brother before she goes i've never had a brother. He's like, no, a black person. And she says no, because she's never left the house before.

Oh, my God. She's never been outside. And anyone who tries to get outside ends up in the basement. What the fuck? And she tells him that mommy and daddy tried to find a perfect boy child, but each one was so bad that Daddy had to cut out the bad parts and keep them in the basement. Ew! So we're thinking they probably mostly have their tongues cut out,

which is why they can't talk. What? And she tells him about Roach and says Roach got out and he drives Daddy crazy, but he's my friend. Oh, Jesus fucking Christ. Fool is trying to figure out how to get out she's basically like you can't there's no way to get out as they're trying he's trying

he's basically like well i'm gonna get out i'm gonna figure out a way to get out and i can help you get out as well but at that moment daddy comes upstairs hears they're talking, got his shotgun, and he is now dressed in like head to toe bondage. He's like covering his head and everything. It's really surprising. Drew's not expecting this. And he's yelling like, I know you're here. And it's unclear at this point if he knows that there's someone else there or if he's still hunting roach but uh at this point also we see mommy downstairs feeding the dog spencer's hand and at some point the cops arrive they quickly uh mommy you know brushes herself

off goes outside and they're looking at the van that's parked there and she's saying yeah like i think someone broke in but they're not here anymore and the cops ask to come inside to search and she says no need we searched the whole house there's nobody here and the cops obviously are like not gonna do shit they're like oh like keep your doors locked ma'am and make sure you're safe out there and she's like oh you can count on it cops leave oh oh like also fool is like banging on the windows while they're outside but it's soundproof and it's that nobody hears it thought of's the thought of everything. But while they're outside, they see in the van,

the Boy Scout outfit that he was wearing earlier and now realize that he's part of the scheme as well. And so they head back inside. They know he's in there now and they're like, he's in there with our little girl, our perfect angel. Gross. Yeah. The implication here being I was like, this is like a birth of the birth of a nation. Like, I don't I don't like what's being applied here.

But so they are still this bathroom and Roach opens up like a cabinet that he, there's a little hidden door in that they can go into and so they run in there and Mr. Robison sends the dog in through that trap door as well and is basically just like, kill them

kill them and they're running through all these little passageways and uh crawl spaces and the dog's about to get to them when roach pulls a lever and the like ground floor beneath the dog drops down to a slide dropping him all the way back down into the kitchen where the robisons are and it's a looney Tunes house. It's a Looney Tunes house. It's silly. Now Roach and Fool get into Alice's room and

Alice this is when she confirms to Fool that Roach's tongue is cut out because he talked back. Are these people they kidnapped? Are they like people they kidnapped? I feel like that's their own children.

That's we're not sure. We're not sure. She is their actual daughter, we think. And these people we don't know if they're also their children or not. I feel like because there's so many of them, we kind of assume some of them must be kidnapped.

Maybe some are just like walked in like unsuspecting or came to the door or whatever these people are really weird and that's I think fool says that really fucked up he says to her

your dad's a real mother and then he's like your mother's a real mother too and mommy and daddy walk in and see them all your dad's a real mother. And then he's like, your mother's a real mother too. And mommy and daddy walk in and see them all in Alice's room and grab fool. Roach makes it out through the little trap door, but daddy shoots the shotgun. It's not fun to say daddy in this. It's so weird.

It's so weird. It's so weird. In this setting, he shoots and it looks like maybe he gets Roach. Like he shoots like right where he is, but Roach still is able to like crawl away. But it might have been a hit. We're not sure. Mr. Robeson grabs Fool, is taking him downstairs, throwing him down into the basement while Mrs. Robeson takes Alice and is screaming at her and takes her downstairs to mop up blood. I don't know whose blood it is. What happened with blood downstairs? Yeah, maybe.

It must be. But she's just like, clean up this filthy. She's like at a level 11. She's just absolutely losing her shit. And then she's like, Alice is in a nasty nightgown also, by the way. Great. And, but she now gets her nasty nightgown covered in blood because she's having to mop up all this blood. And then that sets her mom off as well. her mom off as well and she's like I get you this beautiful

dress that I spent hours making and you get it covered in blood and she grabs her and drags her upstairs and runs a scalding hot bath this is like very upsetting and like makes her get in the bath and like scrubs her skin raw

as the palace is like screaming in pain Mr. Robeson is downstairs with Fool. He's also shoved Leroy's dead body down there and he's basically skinning Leroy and cutting off chunks

of Leroy and feeding it to the people under the stairs. And they're all like clamoring for it and he has blood on his mouth too. So I guess he also ate it and is like says to fool like I like to keep him starving. And so they're just like so hungry that they gobble up any of this human meat that they're given. That seems to be like that. We've recently done several episodes of of people without tongues gobbling up nasty stuff yeah i really don't like

it yeah it's not um do you think you would do it if you were that hungry or would you just let yourself die like don't you think at a certain point you'd just be like no i'm gonna die but would that would you not be able to do that i feel like like I'd try it, but then you'd probably throw up. But they probably have done that already. And then maybe you get used to it. I think it totally depends on the context. Context is everything here. I feel like your will to survive is stronger than you even want it to be.

It is, but writers are too strong. you even want it to be. It is, but writers are too strong. I just read The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff, which is a book that just came out. And in it, there's cannibalism. And man, I gotta tell you, it does become a moral

conundrum. And I think that if it's someone who's been unjustly killed, you're not going to want to eat them. If you were like their friend, even if you're starving. Yeah. You're not going to want to, but you still might do it. I don't know.

Can you? This isn't their friend. You might not want to. This isn't their friend. This is someone. No, no, no. This is different. This is different.

We're not talking about people in the stare situation. Then you don't know who's meat this is you know it's being handed to you but as to whether you would want to live under the stairs would you have the fortitude to starve yourself or would you

want to just eat whatever's given to you I think I'd probably eat it unfortunately unfortunately yeah I wouldn't be happy about it want to just eat whatever's given to you i think i'd probably eat it unfortunately unfortunately yeah i i wouldn't be happy about it but i think like no fucking idea i feel like i get so hungry even in just one day if i like i know i agree i agree but i think that if i was living under the stairs i'd be like i want to die and so i'm going to do what I can to do to die.

Maybe, maybe. Yeah, right? But maybe you become like kind of feral, right? If you want to live, that's one thing. They do seem feral. Yeah, they're like definitely. And as we get better looks at them, they look almost like zombies in terms of their skin is slightly discolored and just they're they're don't look like normal humans like they're have gone through transformations from like being in here for so

long yeah well they're certainly not getting their vitamins no uh so mr robinson goes back upstairs i think he throws fool in the place with all the other people under the stairs like opens the door and is throwing him in there like yeah he's going to be one of them and they're all in there and they're all kind of approaching him we're getting good looks at them now they seem really scary but also hard to say because they can't speak and they're all just kind of moaning and walking towards fool so we don't know what to make of this and then as this is happening leroy's body seems to reanimate and it's like what he was just being skinned yeah it's like, what? He was just being skinned. Yeah, it's like a bloody, skinless body that's like, whoa. And then it drops and we see that it's Roach playing a hilarious prank. Roach!

You gotta have fun where you can find it. And Fool is like, oh, thank God, Roach. And I was like, you're seeing your, like, friend's skinned alive, reanimated corpse. And just immediately like, ha ha, good one. I mean, Lever wasn't a very good friend, I guess, to be fair. No, that is true. And I think he had just met himself. I still don't think I'd find it funny.

No, probably not. But Roach is able to get Fool out of this enclosure. And I don't know why he doesn't get all of them out but he doesn't. He just gets Fool out and Mr. Robeson hears something happening again, sends the dog down. We see that Roach has in fact been shot

and it doesn't look good. He's bleeding out and he takes Fool into another one of the crawl spaces so they're somewhere in a little crawl space. And Roach is losing steam. Looks like he's bleeding out. And he hands Fool a little sack filled with gold coins.

Oh, the coins! I completely forgot about the coins. The coins are here. And he writes on the wall in dust, Alice. So in his little dying moments, he's just saying like, go like save Alice as well. Roach is so sweet. Roach is so sweet. Yeah.

And then Roach dies. Oh, Roach. And Fool goes back up into Alice's room. I think the dad is in there being like very creepy with her. Just like, you've been such a

bad girl, such a bad girl today. And the dog is really barking at the door because it knows that Fool is in the vent in her room. And dad opens the door and is like, shut the fuck up and slams the door in the dog's face. But in that moment of distraction, Fool gets into the room, punches him in the dick. In the dick!

Whoa. Yeah. And grabs Alice and they go into the walls again Alright fool They are Hiding quietly because the dad's listening Trying to see if he can pinpoint Where they are

And then Fool has to sneeze And he's like I gotta sneeze I gotta sneeze oh no And sneezes and this is A scene in the Matrix as well the matrix ripped off people under the stairs i feel like i've been referencing the matrix in like every single recap we've done lately i did yes um it just is a reference point for me for everything for everything i have to find a connection in everything uh so the dad lets the dog into the wall again. So the dog is chasing them and he attaches a knife to the shotgun, making it a bayonet and is just stabbing through the wall where he thinks Fool is.

He could be stabbing his daughter. He's really not thinking this through. He's really not thinking it through. Fool is being attacked by the dog, like, fighting off the dog, and puts the dog against the wall, and the dog gets stabbed. I mean, you hate to see it,

but I guess in this context, you know, better than the alternate. Yeah. Yeah. I don't like to see a dog die regardless. It's not the dog's fault. And I got to say, this dog was a great actor. I was very impressed by this dog performance.

I've recently said how Anatomy of a Fala has like the best dog performance I've ever seen. I think People Under Stairs is in that conversation. Wow. Okay. That's huge. Huge, huge, huge. The two best dog acting jobs I've ever seen. Over 30 years difference there. Yeah. In times. I mean, I'm not easily impressed. No. So, Mr. Robeson pulls the bayonet out of the wall, sees it's dripping blood and cackles. Ha ha.

Gotcha. And goes down to tell his wife. Does he for a moment consider that could have been his daughter's blood? No. Yeah. Okay. No. And he does hear Fool moaning at the time of the stabbing because I feel like he's also being attacked by a dog. So he maybe thinks he hears Fool die.

And he tells Mrs. Robeson and she says, prove it. Like, I need to see proof. So they go back into the room. They break that part of the wall down and out falls their dog. And the dog's name is Prince. And mommy yells, you killed Prince! She's just constantly screaming. Uh, and now Alice and Fool have made it up to the very top of the house in the attic. There is one window that opens. Fool says, great, we can get out this way. And she says, no, there's nothing to hang on to. It's a straight drop and it's too high. high and fool had noticed earlier when he was uh in the boy scout uniform and like

scoping out the place that there's a little pond like a small small lake uh and he's like i think we can slide down the roof the lake is right there and she's like what if it's not deep enough he's like i don't know It's our best option right now. He's not wrong about that. Yeah. So he slides down the roof. He's calling Alice to come after him. Alice is really scared, doesn't want to do it.

And then mommy and daddy get into the room. Oh, geez. And Fool slides off and Alice doesn't. And Fool like calls out like, I'm coming back. I'll be back for you, Alice. And runs away. The lake was deep enough to he wasn't injured or anything. And so.

Great fucking plan. Yeah. So the dad does like run out with the shotgun and try to chase him but then the mom comes out and is saying like what are you thinking shooting outside are you insane and it makes him come back inside and then he's going like daddy's such a bad boy daddy what are you thinking daddy and i hate that go back inside uh and now we see fool has has made it home he is showing his grandpa the gold we're not immediately talking about alice for some reason but his grandpa confirms this is enough for rent until the year 2000. And hospital bills. So far away.

Everything will be. I think you guys should move if these people are your landlords. Yeah. Yeah, true. You'd be like paying them that money. So the grandpa is telling them that, this is this is a lot of money and they're talking about the robesons and he grandpa is saying how that family's always been off for generations they've just been it started as a funeral home and then they started getting into real estate

and they got richer and the more money they got the greedier they got and then they started getting into real estate and they got richer and the more money they got, the greedier they got. And then he's like, those siblings are the worst. And he's like, siblings. And he confirms that, yes, mommy and daddy are actually brother and sister. They're brother and sister? They're brother and sister. Oh, by the book? Ew. Yeah. I mean, it's not good. Her brother and sister Oh by the book Ew Yeah I mean it's

It's not good That is not good It got worse Wow the situation got worse Yeah But I really do want to emphasize Their performances are really Over the top and insane

In I think a very fun way Well they were having a lot of fun fun way. Well they were having a lot of fun as we've heard. They were having a lot of fun we gotta remember that. We gotta just remember that. It was fun for them. They're from Twin Peaks. They're doing similar styles of acting as their Twin Peaks roles

and I don't really know why Fool is not being more adamant about like, we got to go over there or someone has to go over there. So, but he, he is, but he says it later to his sister.

They're not really, that's not the focal point of the first conversation he has. Yeah. It should have been an immediate. I would have thought, I would have thought that would be a higher priority than how much is this gold worth. Yeah. But then he says to his sister, I think maybe his grandpa says something like,

you got to stay away from that house. But I feel like he didn't explain the situation maybe well enough. But Fool, once again, feels the burden on his shoulders and says, I got to do something about this. Somebody has to do something about this. And he heads outside and he's marching down the street. And we're thinking he's going like straight to the house by himself. And I'm like, what the fuck are you doing? And he goes to a pay phone and he calls the police. I really liked that. And the police arrive at the house and the Robesons are putting on a show. A real show. The place is all of a sudden really clean. I would

assume that once someone escapes your house that has seen the things that they have seen you would be like, okay, well the police are coming soon. That is a good point. So I think they've been spending this entire time making everything really look good. And everything seems totally normal. We did find out that the people under the stairs have been lightly tranquilized for the past couple hours or whatever like for

this time they they so no one's making any noise cops aren't hearing everything everything seems to be in order and then they see alice's room and say i thought you said you didn't have a daughter i can't remember why they say they don't have a daughter i guess because if they saw alice she would be like help help me So Alice is probably also locked away Somewhere but they find her room And they're like well what's this And they have a Story at the ready

Of Alice left us years ago But we couldn't bear to Take her bedroom down so it feels Like she's still with us and she Always will be. Ugh. And the police are totally satisfied with this and they leave and they're like,

well, sorry for bothering you, ma'am. Oh, because Fool had told the police, he's like, I need to report a case of child abuse. And so the cops are now like, well, there's no children here, so obviously this was incorrect. They leave. We hear Mrs. Robeson say to her brother, daddy, that because a lot of the doors were open, because normally they keep everything on absolute lockdown constantly. She's like, do you think any of them got away?

And he's like, no, they're pretty heavily tranquilized. It'll be good. And they're turning all the lights off now. It's bedtime. And she's saying goodnight, daddy. He says goodnight, mommy. They're saying their prayers together.

They obviously sleep in the same bedroom. And instead of one of them, one of the people under the stairs getting out, we see that fool has gotten in. And so even though he did a smart thing earlier, he's still in the house by himself yet again. And he grabs a gorgeous fire poker. Would a fool grab a fire poker? Oh, absolutely not. I don't think so.

And he follows the noises of mommy and daddy's prayers and gets to their bedroom and sees that it is a tape recording playing their voices. And daddy and his head to head to toe leather outfit lunges out at fool. But a fire poker is a unparalleled weapon. I think. And fool is able to, uh, And Fool is able to, he hits them both and they fall down and it gives him a head start to be able to run downstairs. And when they run down, they can't find him. And they're like, what the fuck? Like the doors are locked. He couldn't get out. What's going on? Where is he? He's got to be in here somewhere. They go back upstairs and we see that he is hiding in the chimney. He's crawled like into the

fireplace and has like pressed himself up nice in the chimney. Is this a Christmas movie? Yeah. Santa? And so he shimmies up the chimney to the attic. There's like a

missing brick and we see that Alice is chained up to the attic. There's like a missing brick. And we see that Alice is chained up in the attic. Oh, no. But she's chained to the bricks of the chimney. So he's able to pop out the brick from the other side that she's chained to, which like lets her loose. Wow. And they're trying to pop out as many bricks as they can so that he can crawl out of the chimney to where she is. But then daddy's coming up the stairs.

So she puts her hands back up where they were chained and acts like everything's normal. Daddy comes in and we hear mommy going, daddy, come back down here and help me to bed. And so daddy goes back downstairs and Fool gets in. Now they pop out enough bricks that he's able to get into the attic with her. And he's telling her that his grandpa told him that these are not her real parents and that they kidnapped her and that she is not related to them and so she's ready to get out of there now too and i mean she's been ready but yeah now she's extra like all right yeah fuck this place and fool makes a like a run for the attic window that you can slide down into the lake from how they got out last time

Alice stops him and says first thing my dad or first thing he did not my dad after you left was drain the lake and fill it with broken glass so our one exit is not available anymore he was wrong to think that

he would be able to use the same escape twice yeah yeah so they've got to figure something else out they climb into the chimney and climb all the way up and out of it onto the roof and then mommy and daddy are in their bedroom with which also has a fireplace on the second floor so there's a fireplace on the first floor and the second floor connected by the same chimney and they make noise so that they get their attention and daddy sticks his head in the fireplace and is looking up and they start dropping bricks down on him. Nice. And

knock him out and then mommy's in there screaming up at them with the shotgun now so they drop down like as fast as they can. Again, like the Matrix and just like land on her really hard. What if the Matrix was 100%

inspired by this movie? Everything about it. I bet it was a little bit inspired. So, they land on Mommy really hard and kind of knock her out. Fool keeps going down, or no,

they both now go down to the first floor and through the chimney and Fool tells Alice to go out through, I don't know, some door that, I was like, well, I didn't know that there was a door that we could get out of here, but it seems like Alice is heading somewhere to relative safety, hopefully,

while Fool is like, I'm going gonna go get everybody out of the basement oh Alice is in the living room alone when mommy comes down and finds her

and she's screaming at her and then there's a knock at the door and they're like maybe it's the police again so mommy is like completely looks so crazy she's got like blood on her and like dust from the fireplace ash and stuff and she's got a gun in her hand and she just like kind of tries to brush herself off to look normal when she she like holds the gun behind her back and then opens the door and it's Ruby fool's sister.

And she starts yelling at her and is Ruby starts. She's basically saying like, Oh, we're tenants of the neighborhood that you're trying to run us all out of town. And I just want to see what you have to say for yourself mommy slams that door in her face and we see that daddy has found fool in the basement is holding him at gunpoint now with shotgun again and says kiss your ass goodbye boy and then all these lights shine in his eyes and he can't see anything all of a sudden he's like oh and all the all the people under the stairs have flashlights there's like a funny line earlier where alice says like they all have flashlights so they

have some something to do it's like something to do she like says something about the flashlights, like it's not so bad. They all have flashlights. And so he gets momentarily blinded by all these flashlights, which gives Fool a chance to get away. And Fool, I think, runs in with the people under the stairs at this point. And there's another knock at the door she answers it again and now it's uh the grandpa and ruby and they're saying like you're ruining our community and uh mrs robison says there's no community here she says all she's like about to drop the n-. You like get the N. She's like, all I see is a bunch of... And as she's like about to say it, there's like the whole town comes around the corner. And like all of the residents from the neighborhood are there. And Alice drops down from the ceiling, like a little crawlspace on top of mommy, knocks her out again.

And everyone like seesice sympathetically and is like oh my god all the rumors were true like there's just like little children being held uh captive in here ruby makes it inside they're going to try to find fool fool is telling all the people under the stairs like i want to get you out of here you guys need to like feel the sunshine on your face again and like you can you still have a life ahead of you and all of the people under stairs are like oh they can't say anything and one of them is signaling to him that he's like holding his hands open like he wants to give him something and he leads him to this vault of treasure filled with money and coins like so much gold and fool uh is you know shocked to see this so it's a lot of money and he says something like oh like

this is why there's no money in the projects like they have all the money and uh we cut back to alice and mommy are in the kitchen mommy's attacking alice with a knife knocks her down onto the stairs and is like stabbing at her with this massive knife and she's like realized that she's been fool has turned alice against her and is now like well there's a bunch of people have seen what's going on in there yeah she's like realized that she's been, fool has turned Alice against her and is now like, well, there's. And a bunch of people have seen what's going on in there. Yeah, she's like, okay, so yeah, I just have to kill Alice now. And as she's got her pin down on the stairs, hands burst through the stairs and the people under the stairs start bursting through different parts of the walls. And like attacking mommy and biting her.

And they're like chasing her around the house for a bit. And they chase her into Alice's holding the knife that her mom has. And the mom basically like runs into the knife, stabs herself in the stomach, essentially. And she says to Alice, you hurt your mother. Alice says, you're not my mother. Never were. Mrs. Robeson says, then burn in hell! And tries, like, she's still going to kill her.

But then all the people under the stairs crowd in, crowd around her, pin her down down and basically eat her alive whoa sure sure sure sure because they are cannibals uh daddy was i think knocked out in the basement but he's he's come to and he's still in his bondage and he sees her he comes upstairs and sees this and goes, Mommy! And he runs back down to Fool in the basement, who has found all of his treasure. There's also a lot of explosives in this room for some reason. Sure, sure. At some point, Alice said that he keeps a lot of explosives around just in case. All his traps

and tricks. So Mr. Robeson is looking for fool and he hears little coins dropping and he goes I know what you're doing. You're counting your money and you're

flipping it through your fingers. He's like I've done the same thing. And he's following the noise of it and rounds a corner. And it's like a candelabra with coins dug into different points of each candle so that as it melts and hits the coin, a coin drops. That is incredibly elaborate. A very, very smart plan. To do in the past 30 seconds.

Yeah. 45 seconds. Yeah. But it worked. And so he's now, I mean, I don't know. Then Fool does pop out, but he's got the wires to the explosives and is holding them like if you like i don't want to kill you but i will there's explode why do you have so many explosives down here and basically tells him to drop his gun and give it up and and it's clear that daddy's not gonna do that and so fool tells him to he says

well then kiss your ass goodbye presses those wires together it explodes fool is also directly next to the explosion but it doesn't seem to he doesn't seem too worried about that and he does survive and he's totally fine okay so cool whereas

daddy and mommy are both dead and okay all right because this explosion it's a Okay, so cool. Whereas Daddy and Mommy are both dead. Okay, all right. Because this explosion, it's a huge explosion, and it causes all the money to fly into the air, and all the residents of the neighborhood are outside, and so everyone's, like, catching money and cheering, and all the people under the stairs come out and they're like catching money and like, liking me. I was going to say, they definitely deserve some of that money. Yeah. And so every, it's like turns into a party. This like music comes on at the end, like everyone's like grabbing money out of the air and cheering. And it's like,

woo, we see that Alice is okay. Fool's okay. Oh, Alice like runs to Fool's side and is like, are you okay? How are you feeling? And Fool has this unreadable expression. He goes, I feel like a million bucks. And everyone's partying and dancing and that's the end of the movie. What?

Wow, what a happy ending. It was so surprisingly happy. That never happens in a horror movie movie I know I was really not expecting the people Under the stairs to be the heroes I know So that's nice

They got what they deserved And a nice little redistribution Of wealth via explosion Via money explosion And I like that the money is Coins Pirates of the Caribbean via explosion via money explosion and i like that the money is coins i'm picturing coins yeah pirates of the caribbean like exactly chest of coins it's exactly like i was a little confused as to why they deal in coins but you know maybe they explained it at some point, I guess. Wow. That was the 90s, you know, everybody had coins. Yeah.

Yeah. So everybody lived happily ever after. Wow. It was the 90s, so this wasn't a big time for therapy, unfortunately, because you'd love to think that they'd all go into therapy. No, because E. Giles is not okay. No. None of those people under the stairs

are okay. No, they're not okay at all. It feels like a very passionate film a very prescient or very knowing film to be made in the 1991 there weren't a lot of films being made that like explored racism in that way right?

especially among housing because housing is where a lot of racism happened for a lot of years it's just like the institutionalized way that it affects yeah those communities yeah it's i mean and we've talked about in horror like representation of black people in general and horror is like so especially in the you know 90s and prior to that it's like that was not normally good representation.

Super one note. Yeah. And so yeah, I thought this was a cool message. Cool message. Happy ending. A happy ending. I fucking love a happy ending. It's a pretty fun time.

I remember something like a pretty fun time. You know, in Shakespeare, you call a tragedy a tragedy because everyone dies, or a comedy because someone gets married in the end. Can you call a horror movie a horror movie if it's a happy ending? It does take some of the horror out of it, for sure. It definitely does.

But I mean, you know. No, it's definitely horrific, but I'm just saying I mean are there any rules we want to state about happy ending or no happy ending you know I think it can still be a horror movie it does get out kind of has a happy ending yeah it does get out yeah

yeah yeah horror's gonna have happy endings but it's less common i feel like and i tend to prefer a sad ending you know me they definitely rarely end in a big money party no yeah i did love to see it though because you never see it it sounds very fun yeah coins raining down from the sky everybody dancing in the street it would hurt it would hurt to have a coin hit it's a little bit scary I don't know if the coins

were flying. It was dollar bills that were flying and then the coins were maybe already I didn't know there even were dollar bills. I was picturing just coins. It's a lot of bills and then a lot of coins and so I think it's basically just the bills flying from the sky

and then you got to go and grab the coins from the ground. Okay. Okay. Really fun. Really fun for everyone. Really fun. Yeah. Great timing for that to be the night that the neighborhood decided to finally gather together. Yeah.

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