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When I got this movie my expectations were very high, and I was glad they weren't let down. I expected alot from this movie, I had heard it was VERY scary, and I'm into horror movies VERY MUCH!!! The bad reviews on here, don't listen to them, see the movie yourself!!!

So Adam is a boy with his family living in some rundown tennant houses, his momma's dying of cancer. Well the kid hears about a treasure, locked up in the bottom of the basement of the house. The sad thing is no one ever comes out of this house alive, and unfortenately for him its not just a myth its the truth!!! Getting in may be a pain, but getting out is 10x's the fun!!! "Hear no evil,speak no evil,and see no evil" is a saying of the mother. Which holds to secret of the basement inhabitants.

There is a girl hidden upstairs though, and is violently abused. The scenes where she is abused truely terrified me, my friend was asking what was wrong with me. Abusive scenes always get me like that. Violent abuse, and I mean angry abuse. And on top of those ingredients there is a man running screaming through the house shooting at the walls in a black&spiked leather suite.

The acting is wonderfull, especially for those playing the parents, they play the rules perfectly and make them two truely terrifying characters to see on flm!!!

This is maybe an uneven film, but it is still one of the best horror movies I've come across. A good story, good acting, a happy ending, and terrifying scenes. If that isn't what a horror movie is supposed to be(not neccisarily the good ending part), then I don't know WHAT ONE IS!!!!

God Bless ~Amy

Bizzare film, Adams family meets the hood.
Boy was this film weird. I believe the storyline was written by Clive Barker and of course hes wierd in his right mind. Of course you can tell the style of the movie was of course directed by Wes Craven himself. Wes is hard to describe but his movies hit and miss. He's never conistant on what he does with films because sometimes his movies really stink (ie. Wes Craven's new nightmare, and whole slew of others that simply blow) and sometimes he really makes good movies like this one and nightmare on elm street 1 and Scream 1 wasn't bad. You can tell by his style but I like I said its hard to describe it but if you watched enough of his films you can easily point out "oh that looks like a Wes Craven film."

Now about this film. Well I think other reviewers have pretty much done a good job summing up the films so I'll just point out good points and bad points of the film.

Good points: Excellent visual effects and the way the house was made was simply fabulous for this type of film. The storyline was extremely creative for a horror film. The actors were pretty solid and overall feel gave you a great errie feeling. Lights camera work was solid too.

Bad point: The only real bad point of the film was the ending was a little sloppy. The ending was real generic with people cheering and catching money in the air. With all the creativity in film you almost sat there thinking wow we havent seen this type of ending before. I guess Wes and Clive shocked us so much in the film the ending was almost a let down...

A Poor Effort by a Horror Master
"Fool," (Brandon Adams) as he's known by his friends, isn't exactly living "the good life" with his ill mother who can't pay the rent. When one of the family friends decides to pull off a Robin Hood stunt, stealing from a local wealthy family to give to the poor (namely themselves), Fool sees this as a quick solution to his family's problems. However, Fool and his friends find that this is by no means an "ordinary" family, and succeeding in their task will be more difficult than they had imagined.

This family has a dark secret that they have kept for quite some time now. They have a hungry horde of cannibalistic boys locked in their basement, strange torture and security devices throughout the house, and an evil man-eating dog patrolling the house. The twisted wealthy owners of the house (Everett McGill and Wendy Robie) lock Fool in their home and are out for blood. Fool must trust one girl, Alice (A.J. Langer), living in the house, in addition to one of these ill-treated boys in order to attempt his escape.

This was a seemingly interesting premise that was executed poorly. The plot was severely lacking, and the poor acting certainly didn't help. The odd couple housing the boys in their basement become particularly irritating. I understand that some of their actions were meant to be seen as humorous (...), but it wasn't pulled off very well. All characters, with the one exception of Fool, were severely under-developed. In addition, much of this film was extremely cliche. For example, the wealthy couple who owns the home is approached by the police one night. When they bring out hors deouvres and drinks for their interrogators, all seems forgotten and the police indulge themselves and then leave. How could this nice, polite, high-society couple be involved in anything questionable? Furthermore, why exactly these people have boys living under their stairs is never fully explained, they are merely there.

Buy this movie only if you are a huge Wes Craven fan, but otherwise leave it for a lonesome Friday night rental. I have always been one to enjoy a great horror film, but this is definitely not one of them.