Scream Factory has revealed the specs for its The People Under the Stairs 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray. Originally due out on April 25, the 1991 cult classic will now release on May 30.
Written and directed by master of horror Wes Craven, the film stars Brandon Adams, Everett McGill, Wendy Robie, A.J. Langer, Ving Rhames, Bill Cobbs, Kelly Jo Minter, Sean Whalen, and Yan Birch.
The People Under the Stairs has been newly scanned in 4K from the original camera negative, presented in Dolby Vision (HDR-10 compatible) with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and 2.0 options. Special features are listed below.
Disc 1 - 4K UHD:
Audio commentary by writer-director Wes Craven
Audio commentary by actors Brandon Adams, A.J. Langer, Sean Whalen, and Yan Birch
Audio commentary by actor Brandon Adams
Interview with writer-director Wes Craven
Interview with actress A.J. Langer
Interview with actor Sean Whalen
Filmmaker Jeffrey Reddick on the film’s lasting impact
Theatrical trailer
Disc 2 - Blu-ray:
Audio commentary by writer-director Wes Craven
Audio commentary by actors Brandon Adams, A.J. Langer, Sean Whalen, and Yan Birch
Audio commentary by actor Brandon Adams
Interview with actress Wendy Robie
Interviews with special effects artists Greg Nicotero, Howard Berger, And Robert Kurtzman
Interview with director of photography Sandi Sissel
Interview with composer Don Peake
Making-of featurette
Behind-the-scenes footage
Theatrical trailer
TV spots
Storyboard gallery
Still gallery
Trapped inside a fortified home owned by a mysterious couple, a young boy is suddenly thrust into a nightmare. He quickly learns the true nature of the house’s homicidal inhabitants and the secret creatures hidden deep within the house.
The People Under the Stairs will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on April 25 via Scream Factory. The 1991 cult classic is written and directed by master of horror Wes Craven.
Brandon Adams, Everett McGill, Wendy Robie, A.J. Langer, Ving Rhames, Bill Cobbs, Kelly Jo Minter, Sean Whalen, and Yan Birch star.
Final specs will be announced a later date, but the special features so far can be found below.
Special features:
Audio commentary by writer-director Wes Craven
Audio commentary by actors Brandon Adams, A.J. Langer, Sean Whalen, and Yan Birch
Interview with actress Wendy Robie
Interviews with special effects artists Greg Nicotero, Howard Berger And Robert Kurtzman
Interview with director of photography Sandi Sissel
Interview with composer Don Peake
Making-of featurette
Behind-the-scenes footage
Theatrical trailer
TV spots
Still galleries (storyboards and stills)
Trapped inside a fortified home owned by a mysterious couple, a young boy is suddenly thrust into a nightmare. He quickly learns the true nature of the house's homicidal inhabitants and the secret creatures hidden deep within the house.
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Ranting on "The People Under the Stairs" for no reason
The antagonists are a brutal parody of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. They're a pair of insane, sociopathic incestuous siblings who want to build the perfect nuclear family & have kidnapped and mutilated dozens of boys to do it. Being landlords, they hoard wealth while draining their tenants dry.
Their house, a stand-in for the US, looks perfect and pristine but is full of traps and death. Fool and Roach, who represent the black & white sides of the disenfranchised, are in mortal danger when in the brightly lit halls and are only mildly safe when they hide in the walls, symbolizing how the underprivileged in America have to hide and skulk to survive, denied the right to live safely in the open. Hell, "Daddy" (Ronald Reagan expie) goes on hunting sprees inside the walls, an extreme metaphor for how authorities force their way into minorities' neighborhoods to harass and kill them. Alice, the most privileged of the protagonists being a lil white girl, is still a victim of the system as she gets abused and beaten when she does not play the part of the perfect "daughter."
PS: the antagonists are cannibals. They're the rich who literally eat the poor.