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Horror in Suburbia: Why 80s Horror Was Obsessed with Middle-Class Fear

March 8, 2026 by admin

Adam Page on the 80s horror obsession with with suburbia… Horror cinema puts us in some uncomfortable places. It always has. Whether it’s digging up the freshly buried body of your child killed by a speeding tanker, or standing in the shower, soap in your eyes while you reach for a towel and find a […]

Filed Under: Adam Page, Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: Poltergeist, the 'burbs, The People Under the Stairs

10 Horror Movies Ripe for a Modern Remake

October 19, 2025 by Vanessa Maki

Vanessa Maki with ten horror movies that could benefit from a modern remake… A topic that can spark a lot of controversial thoughts in the horror community is remakes. There are people who inherently dislike remakes, and there are folks who embrace some of the remakes we’ve seen over the decades. Horror remakes don’t always […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Top Stories, Vanessa Maki Tagged With: Disturbing Behaviour, Event Horizon, Ganja & Hess, night of the comet, Prom Night, tales from the crypt: demon knight, The Birds, The People Under the Stairs, tourist trap, valentine

Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw to produce The People Under the Stairs reboot

November 18, 2023 by EJ Moreno

Jordan Peele is tackling one of the most beloved cult classics, Wes Craven’s The People Under The Stairs. Though Peele is not set to helm the project, it will be produced via Monkeypaw Productions. Doom Patrol and Night Sky writer Ezra Claytan Daniels recently signed on to write the screenplay, with the director hunt still […]

Filed Under: EJ Moreno, Movies, News Tagged With: ezra claytan daniels, Jordan Peele, The People Under the Stairs

Wes Craven teaming with Syfy for The People Under the Stairs TV series

April 26, 2015 by Gary Collinson

Not content with bringing Scream to the small screen, it is now being reported that Wes Craven is teaming with Universal Cable Productions and Syfy to adapt his 1991 horror classic The People Under the Stairs, in what is being described as “a contemporary Downton Abbey meets Amityville Horror“. The logline for the series reads: […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News, Television Tagged With: The People Under the Stairs, Wes Craven

Cult Classic Horror Movies That Were Critical and Financial Failures

September 1, 2021 by Red Stewart

Marvel Videos presents cult classic horror films that were critical and financial failures…. Not everything you do will be a hit. Even if you’re operating in a genre like horror, science fiction, or fantasy, there is no guarantee that you will find an audience that will see what you’re trying to do and embrace it. […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Random Videos, Red Stewart Tagged With: Arachnophobia, brainscan, House on Haunted Hill, Marvelous Videos, Nightbreed, the cell, the dark half, The Exorcist III, The Frighteners, The People Under the Stairs, Thinner, thirteen ghosts, Trick 'r Treat

Master of Horror: The Best Wes Craven Horror Movies

August 2, 2021 by Red Stewart

Marvelous Videos explores Wes Craven’s best horror movies… Alongside George A. Romero, David Cronenberg, and John Carpenter sits Wes Craven, and that is no small feat. Like the others, Craven was an auteur of the horror genre. During the 70s and 80s, at a time when advances in special effects were being exploited by hacks, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Random Videos, Red Stewart Tagged With: A Nightmare on Elm Street, Cursed, deadly blessing, Marvelous Videos, red eye, Scream, Shocker, The Hills Have Eyes, The Last House on the Left, The People Under the Stairs, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Wes Craven

Jordan Peele to produce new take on Wes Craven’s The People Under the Stairs

October 31, 2020 by EJ Moreno

One of the most underrated horror films of the 90s is getting another chance as Collider reports that Universal will tackle the 1991 Wes Craven film The People Under the Stairs, with Jordan Peele attached as a producer. Peele will produce the remake alongside Win Rosenfeld via their Monkeypaw Productions banner, reteaming after tackling the […]

Filed Under: Movies, News Tagged With: Jordan Peele, The People Under the Stairs, Wes Craven

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