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Jordan Peele Producing a New Take on Wes Craven’s ‘The People Under the Stairs’ for Universal!
Wes Craven‘s 1991 horror movie The People Under the Stairs is getting new life over at Universal, Collider reports today, with Jordan Peele on board to produce a remake of the film.
Collider’s Jeff Sneider notes, “though Peele is not expected to direct the film himself, it remains unclear whether he and/or Rosenfeld will have a hand in writing the script.”
Peele will produce for Monkeypaw Productions alongside Win Rosenfeld.
In the 1991 original, “Two adults and a juvenile break into a house occupied by a brother and sister and their stolen children. There, they must fight for their lives.”
Brandon Quintin Adams starred alongside Ving Rhames, Everett McGill and Wendy Robie.
As Justin Yandell noted in a Bloody Disgusting article back in 2018, Craven’s The People Under the Stairs is a film rife with current day relevance and strong social commentary.
“The People Under the Stairs is plainly about the marginalization of minorities, class inequality, sexism, the patriarchy, isolationist nationalism and even healthcare. All the topics at the center of today’s rising culture war were highlighted on-screen a quarter-of-century ago in a movie that came and went with little fanfare,” Yandell wrote in the aforementioned article.
Whether as producer, writer, director or all three, Peele has proven himself a master of socially relevant horror, so it’s great to hear that he’ll be creatively involved with a new take.
Vinegar Syndrome makes its first foray into original productions with Eight Eyes, a retro nightmare co-produced with Not the Funeral Home, the team behind Shudder’s “The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs.” First reported by Screen Daily, Shudder has picked up the film.
No word yet on a Shudder premiere date. Stay tuned for more.
Watch the previously released official trailer below, which nails that retro 1970s vibe.
In Eight Eyes, “A mysterious local crashes a couple’s vacation through the former Yugoslavia, pulling them deeper into his web of psychic rituals. A mysterious local crashes a couple’s vacation through the former Yugoslavia, pulling them deeper into his web of psychic rituals.”
Co-writer and director Austin Jennings (“The Last Drive-In with Job Bob Briggs”), working from an originating idea by Justin Martell, gets ambitious for his feature film debut.
“Photographed entirely on location in Serbia and Macedonia and on 16mm Kodak film, Eight Eyes draws from European genre cinema and American horror films of the 70s to create a nightmarish tableau of nostalgia twisted into berserk, new shapes. Set among the ruins of the former Yugoslavia, Eight Eyes was developed with significant contributions from the film’s local cast and crew to ensure an authentic portrayal of the cultural environment in which it is set – one rarely been documented on film,” Vinegar Syndrome says of their original production.
Emily Sweet (V/H/S/99), Brad Thomas, and Bruno Veljanovski star. Not the Funeral Home (Executive Producers Justin Martell and Matt Manjourides) produced the film.
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