AJ Langer,
Brandon Adams,
Brandon Quintin Adams,
Everett McGill,
Jeremy Roberts
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A bookish and poverty-stricken young boy becomes involved in a scheme in order to pay for his mother's operation but is met with unsuspecting horrors.
DVD Release Date: October 7, 2003
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November 3, 2009Entertainingly campy horror film is the story of a boy who stumbles upon a group of strange people that have been locked away in the basement of an old house. Shlocky movie effectively blends comedy with scares for an uneven story. Director Wes Craven combines some compelling f...( read more)
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May 25, 2009Fool is a ghetto kid about to evicted who decides to break into the house of the greedy landlords and steal enough to pay the rent. Big mistake - the landlords turn out to be a loony-toon brother-and-sister act who live in a labyrinthine mansion and literally eat little boys for ...( read more)
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May 9, 2009A horror movie. The bad guys are crazy and keeps kids prisoner and kill others to feed to the prisoners. It is an average movie. Full of inconsistencies. The people under the stairs cannot get out after being there for years, but our hero, Fool, figures it out in the space of...( read more)
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December 24, 2008A good-hearted ghetto youth nicknamed "Fool" is dragged along to a burglary inside a mazelike house of psychosis and horror. Interesting but uneven update on the haunted house theme; the attempts at black comedy are often mood-breakers, and the young lead isn't quite ready to ta...( read more)
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December 10, 2008This movie really freaks me out. Sure it has some gore, sure it has some corny moments, but the psychosis of the family is realistic enough to be scary. Besides - it stars AJ Langer!
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February 2, 2010I really like the idea of the movie, wes craven always directs movies that i like! Wendy Robie is really creppy!! really!!! it's a good flick, pop corn and friends, must watch at least once :D
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January 19, 2010A kid and a guy break into the house of two REALLY crazy people. One of the weirdest and stupidest horror movies I have ever seen, it often tries to be funny, but fails miserably. Too bad Ving Rhames wasn't in it more.
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June 3, 2005
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness
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December 5, 2007This movie is awesome scared the idk out of i cant even go uptstairs without checkin under them.....
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