Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

The People Under the Stairs

3/3/09 – SCI FI Wire reported that Wes Craven said his remakes of The People Under the Stairs and Shocker still have momentum, even though Relativity Media has taken over Rogue Pictures, which signed a deal with Craven's Midnight Entertainment to develop the films.  The People Under the Stairs centered on a suburban house full of booby traps, where two "parents" kidnap kids to try to create the perfect Reagan-era nuclear family. When the children disappoint, they are locked in the basement, where they turn into cannibals. Shocker was the story of a serial killer who is executed only to transform into a lethal electrical being.  "People Under the Stairs and Shocker are things that they're owned by Universal, but I have control over whether they get made or not," Craven explained. "My partner in the original films, Shep Gordon, each of the three of us [Craven, Gordon and the studio] has to say yes, which we have, so it's just the beginning of the process of thinking about writers and how to approach it."

AlienAlmanac.com 2009