Why ‘The People Under the Stairs’ – And Wes Craven – Were Both Ahead of Their Time (Guest Blog) Yan Birch, who starred as The Stairmaster in the 1991 cult classic, reflects on the horror ...

For all of its wonderful jump-scares and nail-biting suspense, the scariest thing about Wes Craven’s “The People Under the Stairs,” which I starred in as The Stairmaster 30 years ago, may be ...

Today in 1991: The People Under the Stairs premiered in theaters. In the film, a young boy teams up with a pair of adult robbers to steal some expensive coins from a pair of wealthy land barons ...