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The People Under the Stairs Movie Quotes

Fool Well I don't want in, I want out.

Alice Sometimes in is out.

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Leroy You seen Spencer?

Fool I seen Spencer, alright.

Leroy You find anything?

Fool Something found him. He's dead, Leroy. I think scared to death.

Leroy Y-you sure?

Fool You thought he was white before, you should see that sucker now!

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Fool Hey!

Man [aims his gun at Fool, but stops when he sees Fool holding up two wires]

Fool You shoot me, and you die too, man. And you better believe it. Don't be crazy now. There's enough dynamite back there to blow you sky high. Not the best place to store it, in my opinion. But there it was. Now just put the gun down.

Man [aims at Fool again]

Fool Put the gun down. I don't wanna kill you, but I will 'cuz I don't like you much anyway.

Man [hesitates, but doesn't lower his weapon]

Fool I'm tired of fucking around! So either put the gun down now, or kiss your ass goodbye, boy!

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Ruby Williams My name is Ruby Williams and I represent the association of people who have been unjustly evicted, exploited and generally fucked over.

Woman What?

Ruby Williams You and your brother are landlords of over 50 buildings in this city, ALL of which you've allowed to deteriorate into rat infested hellholes while you guys get rich charging ridiculous rents. THEN, you evict anyone the minute they can't pay rent so you can tear down their homes and build some more office buildings, isn't that about right?

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Leroy Yeah, and maybe the President will make me Secretary of Pussy.

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Fool My name is Fool. What's yours?

Alice [shyly] Alice.

Fool Don't be scared. You never seen a brother before?

Alice Never had a brother.

Fool No, I mean a black dude. There's black folks in this neighborhood.

Alice Neighborhood?

Fool The neighborhood. You know, outside.

Alice Well, that's outside, not in here.

Fool So you get outside, don't you?

Alice [shakes her head]

Fool You sayin' never?

Alice Can't get out. No one ever has.

Fool Well, I'm gonna get out. I'm a whole other thing.

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Man May they burn in hell.

Woman Forever and ever in hell.

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Grandpa Booker Meanwhile, you be careful. That brother and sister act you mess with are evil, plain and simple.

Fool Wait a minute, brother and sister?

Grandpa Booker Brother and sister. Tailend of the craziest family you ever heard of. Every generation more insane than the one before it. Started out as a family running a funeral home, selling cheap coffins for expensive prices. Then they got their fingers into real estate, started making a lot of money taking over people's homes. The more money they got, the greedier they got. The greedier they got, the crazier they got. All sorts of rumors about what's going on in that place. Never proved it because the police never took it serious. But believe me, when I was a kid, none of us ever walked past that house.

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Man Burn in hell for gettin' free, and burn in hell for showin' the way!

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Ruby Williams Now here's your card, Fool. See? That's where l got your nickname.

Fool Don't remind me!

Ruby Williams Here you go. Today. The golden-haired birthday boy is settin' off on life's big adventure.

Fool I ain't no golden-haired nobody! All l'm goin' on to is seventh grade.

Ruby Williams Well, you're the Fool, and you can't escape that. That ain't bad.

Fool No?

Ruby Williams No. Ain't the stupid kind of fool. The ignorant kind, cos you're just startin' out.

Fool That's better, l guess.

Ruby Williams Ah, but look here. Already he's got a problem, see? One step in front Fool: the drop-off.

Fool What about the dog?

Ruby Williams That's Fool's companion. See his spirit barking? "Fool! Don't go marching over that cliff, now! Do the smart thing. The high thing."

Fool So what Fool gonna do if he ain't gonna go off the cliff? Fly?

Ruby Williams He gonna do what he have to, Fool. Turn around and walk the other way, right through the fire of the sun.

Fool He'll get burned up if he do that.

Ruby Williams Just the boy part get burned up. The rest come out the other side a man. And no one calls him "Fool" again.

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Woman What's a mother to do? Lazy brat sits in her room all day, sewing dolls. Children misbehaving in the basement! And one in the wall, doing his business God knows where. You kids will be the death of me... the death of me.

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Alice People have tried.

Fool You mean, the people in the cellar?

Alice [nods]

Fool Who are they?

Alice Mommy and Daddy looked a long time to find the perfect boy child, but each one they found turned out bad. Some saw things they weren't supposed to, others heard too much, others talked back. Daddy cut out the bad parts, and put the boys in the cellar, one by one. They get flashlights and food of some kind. I suppose they're happy in their own way.

Fool Yeah right. What about you? How come they haven't put you in the cellar?

Alice I do not see, or hear, or speak evil. It's the only way.

Fool [hears screaming from within the walls] What is that?

Alice What?

Fool That yelling! What is that?

Alice Well, that's Roach.

Fool Roach?

Alice That's who Daddy's hunting. See, Daddy hates Roach because he got out of the cellar and into the walls, and now Daddy can't find him.

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Ruby Williams What're you gonna do, shoot us all?

Woman You'll do!

Alice No!

[drops out of the ceiling and knocks the Woman's head against the floor]

Ruby Williams Damn, she knocked that bitch cold!

Second man Look at her, what they doing to her in there?

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Leroy Just because a man's lying down doesn't mean he's dead!

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[to his dog]

Man Shut the FUCK up!

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Fool [Leroy is attempting to pry a door open with a crowbar to enter the house and find Spencer, who did not return after entering the house] Listen Leroy, this breaking and entering might not be so smart. It's the first day of my thirteenth birthday... could be unlucky.

Leroy Thirteenth birthday is unlucky anyway. Too old to get tit, too young to get ass... fucked either way.

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Man Some niggers robbed the store.

Woman Again? May they burn in hell.

Man I'm very tense from this.

Woman You have one of your headaches?

Man Ooh... very VERY tense about this.

Woman Alice has been bad. She's been feeding that thing between the walls again.

Alice No... no...

Woman Remember not to bruise her face.

[Woman leaves. Man begins taking off his belt to punish Alice]

Man Bad girls... burn in hell.

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Fool They've got padlocks on the outside of the house too...

Leroy Padlocks on the *outside*?

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Alice He said he killed you!

Fool He was exaggerating.

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Fool That X-ray lady's back, she's out back right now by the van. She's got a man with her the size of Detroit.

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Leroy We done popped this house's cherry.

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Woman I don't want to see another cop or cookie in my life. I don't know which one makes me sicker.

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Woman How dare he come into our happy home!

Man He came back to get Alice! You should have let me kill her!

Woman You stay away from Alice!

Man She did it with him! I know it!

Woman Not my little girl!

Man She's a whore!

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Fool Listen Alice, they're not your real parents.

Alice What?

Fool They're not. They're not even husband and wife. They stole you, like they did Roach and all the others. They're a bunch of rotten baby snatchers.

Alice You're just saying that...

Fool My grandfather Booker told me. He wouldn't lie to me.

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Fool [after Roach rescues him from "Daddy"] Thanks.

Roach [smiles and nods]

Fool [to Alice] He doesn't talk much, does he?

Alice His tongue's cut out.

Roach [opens his mouth and shows a severed stump]