AJ Langer, Brandon Adams, Brandon Quintin Adams
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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Flixster Reviews (1,540)
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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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November 22, 2009This movie is an absolute CRACK UP lol.
I was brought up with this movie, because it was a movie my Father enjoyed lol.
But, I have been in love with this movie since I can remember. Shame I can't find it anywhere. Kinda GRINDS MY GEARS ffs -
November 4, 2009This movie scared me when I was younger, and is still excellent when I watch from time to time now. The people living in the house were just plain creepy wow. The ending was good too when Fool bluffs the leather dude(I wont spoil it for you peeps who aint seen it). It came out in...( read more)
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October 26, 2009A near perfect Wes Craven movie. Next to Deadly Friend, Elm Street and Last House on the Left, this is my favorite. It reminds me of Home Alone for adults meets Tales from the Hood. There is a lot of humor and horror but a good balance of both. The movie never lets up and keeps y...( read more)
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October 16, 2009This here falls under the category of "subtextual horror". Basically it's about the oppression of the poor black man by the white man. This and some interesting imagery give the movie all it's steam. It becomes repetitive quite often with some pretty standard horror/thriller stuf...( read more)
Critic Reviews
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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