House of the Forgotten

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Movie
German title House of the Forgotten
Original title The People Under the Stairs
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1991
length 98 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Wes Craven
script Wes Craven
production Marianne Maddalena
Stuart M. Besser
music Don Peake
camera Sandi Sissel
cut James Coblentz
occupation

House of the Forgotten (Original title: The People Under the Stairs ) is an American horror comedy from 1991. Directed by Wes Craven .

action

The poor, black boy Poindexter Williams (nickname " Fool ") is in financial difficulties, which his sister's criminal pimp exploits for himself. To raise money for his sick mother, Williams participates in a break-in into the creepy-looking house of the strange couple of Robesons, who also land most of the houses in the ghetto, where Fool and his family also live. Having penetrated the house, the foray turns into a real nightmare.

The homeowners, "Mommy" and "Daddy", are obviously murderous psychopaths, and even cannibalism seems to be the order of the day. The couple, who later turned out to be a brother-sister team, have converted their house into a true fortress from which there is apparently no escape. In the basement of the house, the crazy couple keeps children and young people growing up, completely isolated from the outside world, who over the years have developed into light-shy cannibals. Fool meets little Alice in the house, who is locked up there by the couple as their alleged daughter. With the help of Roach, who lives between the walls of the house, Fool manages to escape from the horror house. Roach is one of the offspring of the horror couple and his mother removed his tongue after he cursed. Alice stays behind, however. With the entire neighborhood behind him, little Fool returns and saves Alice and the other children.

Reviews

For the film service , Das Haus der Vergessenen is : A tangled mixture of splatter movie and social fairy tale, whose parodic approaches turn into involuntary comedy. At most, the original decor will cheer up friends of the genre a little.

Vincent Canby of the New York Times certified the film in 1991 that although he his share of blood and gore exhibiting , but , surprisingly funny mostly scary and, given the bizarre circumstances was.

Awards

Director Wes Craven received the 1992 Pegasus Audience Award at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival for Das Haus der Vergessenen , and Brandon Adams was nominated for a Saturn Award for best young actor in 1993 for his performance .

additional

  • The film was a financial success with approximately $ 31 million in revenue versus approximately $ 5 million in production costs
  • The two actors Wendy Robie and Everett McGill already played a married couple in Twin Peaks .
  • In January 2018, the film was removed from the index in Germany after 25 years. A re-examination by the FSK revealed an age rating of 16 years and over for the unabridged version.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ House of the Forgotten. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ box office results
  3. ↑ BAnz AT January 29, 2018 B4
  4. ↑ https://www.schnittberichte.com/ticker.php?ID=5018