#600 Failed Sons Under the Stairs (preview)

Minion Death Cult

Alexander Edward

Dsa, Leftwing, Comedy, Democraticsocialism, Rightwing, News, Communism, Politics, Cringe, Socialism

4.4 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Today we revisit the 1991 Wes Craven horror classic: The People Under The Stairs.

Filled with startlingly frank class and race politics, the film follows a young poor black boy threatened with eviction who burglarizes his landlords—only to find them imprisoning their failed offspring in the basement.

Has any other horror movie featured a tenants’ union? Was this the inspiration for Home Alone or Nothing But Trouble? What will the comments have to say about such a politically charged film??

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0:00.0	Okay, I don't care which order I do this in.
0:02.8	While I was looking for this stuff, I found a website called Wokernut.
0:09.3	Hell yeah.
0:10.4	Kind of like, what's the one where you can find out if someone in the cast has been canceled?
0:16.4	I don't know.
0:17.3	I think it's called like Bad Apples or something like that.
0:19.3	Okay.
0:20.0	Yeah, I'm not familiar with that one either.
0:21.9	But, uh,
0:22.9	yeah,
0:23.1	it's,
0:23.5	it's,
0:23.7	it's like a,
0:24.3	it's like a Wikipedia for wokeness.
0:26.6	Uh,
0:26.9	it's like an IMD,
0:28.5	uh,
0:28.7	for,
0:29.0	for wokenness.
0:30.3	Um,
0:30.6	and it's, W-O-K-E-R-N-O-T, woke or not.
0:38.2	Okay.
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