--- title: 'The People Under the Stairs (1991)' type: 'film' director: 'Wes Craven' released: '1991-01-01' runtime_minutes: 102 genres: - 'Comedy' - 'Horror' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-people-under-the-stairs-1991' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105121/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The People Under the Stairs (1991) 1991 · 102 min · Comedy, Horror · United States ## Synopsis The People Under the Stairs is a 1991 American comedy horror film written and directed by Wes Craven, and starring Brandon Adams, Everett McGill, Wendy Robie, A. J. Langer and Ving Rhames. The plot follows a young boy and two adult robbers who become trapped in a house belonging to a neighborhood's crooked landlords after breaking in to steal their collection of gold coins as the boy learns a dark secret about them and what also lurks in their house. ## Credits - **Director:** [Wes Craven](https://cinepixo.com/people/wes-craven) - **Screenplay:** [Wes Craven](https://cinepixo.com/people/wes-craven) - **Original Music Composer:** [Don Peake](https://cinepixo.com/people/don-peake) - **Producer:** [Marianne Maddalena](https://cinepixo.com/people/marianne-maddalena), [Stuart M. Besser](https://cinepixo.com/people/stuart-m-besser) - **Director of Photography:** [Sandi Sissel](https://cinepixo.com/people/sandi-sissel) - **Editor:** [James Coblentz](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-coblentz) ## Cast - [John Mahon](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-mahon-2) - [Bill Cobbs](https://cinepixo.com/people/bill-cobbs) - [Kelly Jo Minter](https://cinepixo.com/people/kelly-jo-minter) - [Brandon Quintin Adams](https://cinepixo.com/people/brandon-quintin-adams) - [Wendy Robie](https://cinepixo.com/people/wendy-robie) - [Sean Whalen](https://cinepixo.com/people/sean-whalen) - [A. J. Langer](https://cinepixo.com/people/a-j-langer) - [Joshua Cox](https://cinepixo.com/people/joshua-cox) - [Everett McGill](https://cinepixo.com/people/everett-mcgill) - [Ving Rhames](https://cinepixo.com/people/ving-rhames) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-people-under-the-stairs-1991 Film facts: Wikidata (Q27338); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.