First and foremost, thanks to everyone who contributed in some way - big or small - in helping me surpass 100,000 downloads!
Second and..er...secondmost(?), Wes Craven's The People Under the Stairs is clunky at times and strange all the time, but is an excellent social satire, depicting the real life horrors of gentrification and systemic racism in an over-the-top way that made Craven's biting social commentary more entertaining for a mass audience.
The article that I quoted extensively is Daily Dead's "Retrospective: Wes Craven's The People Under the Stairs" written by Patrick Bromley.
IDMB Episode 124 - Chimes at Midnight
IDMB Episode 123 - The Stranger
IDMB Episode 122 - Intro to Orson Welles (featuring Tyler Smith of Battleship Pretension)
IDMB Episode 121 - Starship Troopers
IDMB Episode 120 - Basic Instinct
IDMB Episode 119 - Katie Tippel
IDMB Episode 118 - Introduction to Paul Verhoeven (featuring Mat Bradley-Tschirgi of Sequelcast 2)
IDMB Episode 117 - Pieta
IDMB Episode 116 - Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...And Spring
IDMB Episode 115 - The Isle
IDMB Episode 114 - Introduction to Kim Ki-duk (featuring David Bax of Battleship Pretension)
IDMB Episode 113 - Day for Night
IDMB Episode 112 - Shoot the Piano Player
IDMB Episode 111 - The 400 Blows
IDMB Episode 110 - Introduction to Francois Truffaut (featuring Robert Hornak of More Than One Lesson)
IDMB Episode 109 - The Mirror
IDMB Episode 108 - Solaris
IDMB Episode 107 - Ivan's Childhood
IDMB Episode 106 - Introduction to Andrei Tarkovsky (featuring Doug McCambridge of Good Times, Great Movies)
IDMB Episode 105 - Ace in the Hole
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