The People Under the Stairs (1991)

Sean Whalen: Roach

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Quotes 

• 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] 

  Alice : Mommy caught him trying to call for help one day, and Daddy had to teach him to...

  Fool : Speak no evil, right?

  Alice : [nods] 

  Fool : Your father's one sick mother, you know that? Actually, your mother's one sick mother, too!

  Alice : Shhh! You're speaking evil! They'd kill you if they heard a word you just said.

• Alice : Roach is my friend.

  Fool : Roach? I'm Poindexter.

  Roach : [tries to mumble his name] 

  Fool : Everybody calls me Fool.

  Roach : Foo...?

  Fool : You sure got the names, huh?

  [notices Alice's basket of homemade dolls] 

  Fool : This Leroy? You did this? Why you make these?

  Alice : To hold the souls of burglars when they died. Or salesmen, workmen, other people who saw too much.