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The People Under the Stairs (1991) - 7 corrections

Directed by Wes Craven, starring Ving Rhames (add more)

Genres: Horror, Comedy

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When Fool first goes into the basement and pulls the TV back to hold up the lighter to the slats, you can see mesh over the wood. Yet minutes later, Fool sees one of the people under the stairs reaching through the slats to pull the TV back into position and there is no mesh. [The diagonal metal grating is not "over" the wood frame casing, the metal grating is actually behind it, on the side of the ones under the stairs. So one of them simply moved the grating within those "minutes later", in order to slip his hand through the wood frame to reach the TV. No mistake here.]
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Since Roach has been able to elude Daddy for so long, why couldn't he take a few sticks of the dynamite in the house, rig up the front door blowing it open, and set all of the People under the stairs free? [Roach has been living in a cell and in the walls his entire life. He would have no idea how dynamite works, let alone the mental capacity to conceive such a plan.]
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Roach sets off a trap which sends "Prince" sliding through a giant slide to the kitchen. That is almost impossible for Roach to build a perfect slide through the house into a drawer in the kitchen - wouldn't the parents notice it? [Apparantly not.]
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When Fool escapes from the house and calls the police there is an army of cops and child protective service people there yet not one of them even thinks to search the basement or the scorched bullet ridden upper floors of the house. [Remember, Fool broke into their home. If they tell the cops that,he loses credibility.]
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When the police and child protective services people are in the house after Fool escapes and calls them to report abuse, he somehow winds up hiding in a kitchen cabinet while they're there. Why doesn't he just show the cops where the basement prison is? [Not to sound racist or anything but think about it. Even if Fool did do that who would the cops believe? The white couple that owns the house or an african american boy who knows about the secret only because he broke into the house?]
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At almost the very end, when the people under the stairs are finally outside of the basement and begin coming out of the woodwork (literally), there is one man that breaks out of the wall near the floor to try and grab at the wife. In very plain view, the 'V' slit in the back of his mask is visible. Seems the costume poeple hadn't seen the need to tuck it under the shirt or close it up. [Actually, a little later in the scene you see the front of his face and see that he IS wearing mask that covers the top half of his face, so this is not an error. It was meant to be that way.]
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When Fool, Leroy, and their ally are driving around the streets of a suburb near Detroit, there are palm trees along the sides of the road, but there aren't any palm trees in Michigan. [It is never stated that the film is set in Michigan. I'm pretty sure it is L.A.]
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