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The People Under the Stairs (1991) More at IMDbPro »

• Wes Craven was inspired to write this film after seeing a real-life news story about parents who locked their children up inside their house, never allowing them outside.
  
  
• Wes Craven chose Wendy Robie and Everett McGill to play the parts of Mommy and Daddy after seeing them play husband and wife on the TV series, "Twin Peaks" (1990).
  
  
• Through out the entire movie you hear the Man and Woman call each other "Mommy" and "Daddy". You never hear their real names. But when Alice attacks the woman, you hear her yell for the Man and she calls him Eldon.
  
  
• Although Alice was a 12 year old girl, actress A.J. Langer was almost 17 when she played the character in this movie.
  
  

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