I Pity the Fool

I'd had this posted over at Geek Girl but I feel like it would be better appreciated here. So I'm moving it. Yay! Yeah I know it's lazy, so what.
It's dark and wonderfully stormy tonight. I'm thinking it's the type of weather for a horror movie. You know, something to really perk me up. Hmm. What shall it be? Oh! The People Under The Stairs! I have loved this movie since I was little. Kinda tells ya what kind of kid I was... You know, a weird one. It's a Wes Craven movie, so you know it's awesome. The story's about a kid named Fool who breaks into his landlord's house. On the surface it looks normal enough, it's everything a suburban house should be, the inside however is.... dark. See, there's the basement. The couple who live here  have been collecting young boys, trying to find the very best to call their son. Mom and Dad (are never given actual names. Just Mom and Dad. Strange.) have tried so hard to find a good son but these boys just keep letting them down. They've even tried a little home surgery to fix what they deem as the problem with each one. In Roach's case he talked back, so he had his tongue cut out. The other boys have been kept in the basement so long they've gone kind of... feral. They're barely human anymore. Chalk white skin, sunken eyes, and poor vocabularies! And no personal hygiene to speak of. (Boys! Sigh. Just because you're locked in a filthy basement is no excuse not to floss. Just saying.)

And this is the house Fool finds himself trapped inside, it's locked down like Fort Knox. The only way in or out is the front door and the back door, which are both bolted all of the time. When the couple discover Fool, the hunt is on. When he finds himself in the basement he kind of thinks the boys down there want to eat him. And they just might, if given half the chance.When he meets Roach he has a glimmer of hope. Roach has been roaming all around the house behind the walls for some time now. Mom and Dad are too big to fit there. But the emaciated teen and his new 12 year old friend fit just fine. Alice is Mom and Dad's only daughter, they only keep her around because she does what she's told. (When she doesn't they chain her up in the attic.) She tries to help Fool get out, and after a while Fool convinces her to get away with him. If she stays in that house Mom and Dad will eventually kill her. Or give her to her brothers in the basement. It's only a matter of time.