HOME INVASION Pt 19: The People Under the Stairs (1991) & Panic Room (2002)

The Evolution of Horror

Mike Muncer

Tv & Film, Film History

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🗓️ 10 August 2023

⏱️ 103 minutes

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This week Mike is joined by Michael Blyth to discuss the mad surrealism of Wes Craven and the meticulous hyper realism of David Fincher, as they discuss THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS (1991) and PANIC ROOM (2002).

Music by Jack Whitney.

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0:00.0	What happens when home invaders underestimate the invadees and get a little bit more than
0:29.2	they bargained for? In 1991, horror director Wes Craven made a film based on a news article he had
0:39.7	read from the 1970s in which two burglars broke into a Los Angeles household and inadvertently discovered
0:47.0	children who were locked away in the basement. Alice has been bad. She's been feeding their thing
0:56.7	between the walls again. The film, the people under the stairs, is a bizarre and brilliant mix of
1:04.2	home alone style wacky hijinks and grizzly disturbing horror. Meanwhile, a decade later, David Fincher
1:17.9	followed up his cult hit Fight Club with his own home invasion thriller, about three burglars
1:24.4	breaking into what they assume is an empty New York townhouse, only to find a mother and daughter
1:31.4	living in there who have barricaded themselves in an impenetrable, fortress-like room upstairs.
1:42.2	Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of home invasion and we discuss
1:47.5	where's Craven's the people under the stairs and David Fincher's panic room.
2:00.2	Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike Munster and as ever, I am your host.
2:05.5	In this podcast, we explore and dissect the evolution and the history of the horror genre
2:10.4	by looking at particular sub-jummers one series at a time. We are currently in the middle of our
2:15.7	ninth season exploring the evolution of home invasion and this is part 18. In this week's episode,
2:23.2	as that intro suggested, we've got a cracker of a double bill. It's where's Craven's the people
2:28.7	under the stairs and David Fincher's panic room. Two absolute all-timers as far as I'm concerned,
2:35.5	so please give them both a watch before you listen to our spoilerific discussion.
2:41.4	So, joining me to discuss these movies one of my very favourite EOH guests,
2:48.0	he's here pretty much every year with me and he's been here again pretty much since the very
2:53.2	beginning. He was first here on the podcast in Slasher's part one, an introduction and he was
2:59.4	last here in our alien series discussing the rocky horror picture show with me and I am about to
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