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?? Sign up at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult for bonus episodes every week
While I was looking for this stuff, I found a website called Wokenaut.
Hell yeah.
Kind of like, um... What's the one where you can find out if someone in the cast has been cancelled?
I don't know.
I think it's called like Bad Apples or something like that.
Okay.
Yeah, not familiar with that one either, but uh... Yeah, it's like a Wikipedia for Wokeness.
Or it's like an IMDB for Wokeness.
And it's spelled...
W-O-K-E-R.
E-R-N-O-T.
Woke or not.
Okay.
But it's supposed to be like woke or not, you know?
So I'm reading about the people under the stairs.
Wokeness, 0%.
Overall score, 60%.
Wow, so not too bad, 60%.
Zero wokeness though, so definitely worth a watch.
Put the woke to sleep, wrote this user submitted review.
Wokeness, zero out of five.
Overall score, three out of five.
Wait, wait, hold on.
So, so these aren't people ironically calling it?
They're not people who are mad that it's woke?
Because this movie is pretty woke.
Let me read the, let me read the review and all will be explained.
Okay.
Okay.
For the whole web?
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
A horror film with themes of ghetto versus rich class struggle without any overt racial or political agenda being pushed.
See, it's not woke, Tony.
It's just about ghetto versus rich class struggle.
Oh, okay.
For some, just knowing that the hero of the film is a struggling black boy from the ghetto and the villains are crazed, rich, racist, white people may lead them to believe that the film stinks of wokeness, but I assure you it does not.
The villains of the film hurt everybody!
White, black, male, female, doesn't matter.
Dog, they're here to dog too.
They represent the rich white elite who own all of the property and hold everyone else down.
It's not woke, it's just about how the rich own all the property and hold everybody else down.
This is still not, this is not helping, this is not giving me the answer I was looking for when it comes to what this website is.
Like, because, like, yeah, this person sounds like someone who says, like, I'm not racist, I hate everybody.
You know?
And, like, that's, that person's usually not woke.
This, uh, this website is about, like, sussing out and condemning woke movies.
Okay.
It's also exclusively the province of morons who think that a movie about class struggle and gentrification is not woke.
Yes, that's really, I love that.
I love that.
The villains, yeah, the people who in today's world would advocate for social justice and forced racial integration in your neighborhood but lock themselves away in a lily white gated community and never associate with any minorities the kind of people who would call you a racist for supporting Donald Trump but refer to all blacks as n-words uh but he types it out here on woke or not uh when they're among their inner circle
All in all, a pretty good movie.
Far from what Wes Craven's best, but a pretty crazy ride.
This is about the liberal elite.
The reason it's not woke, it's about the liberals who all say the n-word that I also say and love to type.
Love to type for no fucking reason.
So, he put it in quotes.
I'll give him that.
That's so funny.
I was quoting the imaginary liberal I made up.
Yep, and this is exactly why we can't have discussions over racism and not have a class analysis with it.
