Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11834 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-05-02
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 98 minutes

Special Features
English
Region 2

Synopsis
A boy called Fool and his mother are about to be evicted from their home by the local landlord. Fool, anxious to get money from anywhere agrees to help his sister's boy-friend break into the landlord's house. What they discover there is beyond their wildest nightmares.

Customer Reviews

The walls have ears!
People who have said this film is rubbish don't get the point of it. It's a classic 'ripping yarn' often bordering on the ridiculous, if you like 'An American Werewolf' or 'Evil Dead' type movies then you'll love it. If you are new to this genre then it's definately worth a watch. If you take yourself too seriously and look for meaning in everything then don't bother!

Worth watching
I've watched this film several times over the years and it is really one of the better of Wes Cravens films which can be especially of late pretty hit and miss. The premise of this film has been given before so I won't go over it again so I'll just give my opinion. This film is not really scary but I don't think being scary was it's main intention. There are some bits of the film that do make me laugh out loud and that is usually hard for me in a comedy let alone a horror film.
There are some slightly disturbing aspects of the film regarding child abuse that I thought may not have fitted in entirely well with the dark comedic aspects of it. One of my main problems with the film is the DVD didn't appear to be of that good in regard to picture quality but saying that it wasn't that bad that it detracted from the film itself. It just could have been better. Another problem is that the people who do actually live under the stairs didn't really look like real people. They were made to look like bad zombies. I don't really believe that the make up was needed to that extent. The film was very well cast and entertaining. Do not go into this film with the preconception that it's going to scare you because you're only going to be disappointed. It is a horror film but I would say that it is a comedy horror.

A great film!
This is a very entertaining and original film in the horror genre, I enjoyed it a hugely. As the other reviewers have pointed out its not very scary, but it has its moments and has some comic scenes but its fun and interesting and worth a watch.

Perhaps nowadays when we learn about how some people behave in the privacy of their own homes, this film might not seem too unusual anymore; a couple who are paranoid about their privacy,love guns, very religious, abuse their children and murder visitors! You never know what goes on behind closed doors!!!!