2012 Directed by Mark Tonderai
A mother and daughter move to a new town and find themselves living next door to a house where a young girl murdered her parents. When the daughter befriends the surviving son, she learns the story is far from over.
Jennifer Lawrence Max Thieriot Elisabeth Shue Gil Bellows Nolan Gerard Funk Eva Link Allie MacDonald Jordan Hayes Krista Bridges James Thomas Hailee Sisera Craig Eldridge Jonathan Higgins Olivier Surprenant Lori Alter Joy Tanner Bobby Osborne Grace Tucker-Duguay Will Seatle Bowes Jon McLaren John Healy Jasmine Chan Jonathan Malen Claudia Jurt
Aaron Ryder Hal Lieberman Peter Block Tucker Tooley Ryan Kavanaugh Allison Silver Sonny Mallhi Dominic Visconsi Jr. Steve Samuels
"People don't notice all the secrets around them. Even though they're right in front of them, just hiding, waiting to be found."
If you thought the title of this film was bad, wait until you actually see the movie because it is pretty much a standard film in the horror genre. I don't even think you can consider this one a horror film, because there isn't much scares; it is more of a teen romantic suspense film. It's formulaic and by the books. Jennifer Lawrence had a perfect rating until I got around to watching this film. She didn't have much to work with and she gives a decent performance but nothing like the work we've come to expect from…
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I am aware of my own difficulties in finding appreciation for the horror genre, but my hatred for House at the End of the Street is far from my own shortcomings, instead it's due to the many aspects of its production, exceeding beyond its core elements; screenplay, directing, and acting. This film was marketed as a horror-thriller film that aims to keep audiences on their toes, the film only touches on these genres during the bookends of the film; unable to justify the promise that its marketing team was selling. I came into this expecting a mediocre experience, not the frustrating mess that it actually is.
In actuality, the film is more of a family-drama that…
Here is another movie that I have never seen and have had on my shelf far too long. In fact, my brother actually bought 2 copies about a month back, 1 for me and one for him, because he knows how much I dig Jennifer Lawrence. Then I said that I had it and he now has 2 copies. I am sure you don't care about that though, so let me get back to the regularly scheduled review.
Jennifer Lawrence plays a high school student that just moved into a new house with her mother. The mother-daughter relationship is strained to say the least. Some of it is the normal teenager bullshit but some of it seems legit as the…
House at the End of the Street is a film that should be languishing at the bottom of a DVD bargain basket at your local supermarket but has been elevated to a theatrical release thanks to the involvement of Jennifer Lawrence. Her casting aside there really isn’t a great deal of interest to be had in this flat and toothless teen thriller that happily shows its hand early on thus stripping the film of much of its intrigue.
The film opens with its most shocking and interesting sequence - a young girl brutally murdering her parents. Flash forward four years and Lawrence and her mother (Elisabeth Shue) move in next door to the crime scene whilst Jennifer befriends the one…
Nicht gerade die unfassbare, klassische Jugendsünde einer jungen Schauspielerin, aber trotzdem ein Film den Jennifer Lawrence nach ihrem Erfolg in „Die Tribute von Panem“ und dem Oscar für „Silver Linings“ sicherlich nicht als ihr Aushängeschild nehmen würde. Braucht sie aber vermutlich auch nicht allzu sehr zu befürchten da den Film kaum jemand wahrgenommen hat – zu Recht. Ein klassischer Psychothriller vom braven Normalo-Mutter Tochter Gespann das mit einem Psychopathen aneinander gerät in unheimlichem Umfeld – gut, daraus kann solide TV Unterhaltung gebastelt werden, im Kino reiß man damit aber eigentlich keinen mehr vom Hocker. Auch wenns darstellerisch natürlich top ist und die Atmosphäre ordentlich eingefangen und aufgebaut wird bleiben unterm Strich nur ein paar Schreie, ein paar nette Buhh Effekte und ein wenig Blut. Absolute Standardware also die keinem wehtut, aber letztlich auch keiner braucht.
Fazit: Solider Thrill auf ausgelatschten Pfaden – nicht weniger, aber keinen Deut mehr.
Assisti exclusivamente por causa da JLaw (em um dos seus papéis mais esquecíveis, até porque a história é tão ‘ok’ quanto). A narrativa é bem confusa e eu esperava um desenvolvimento melhor... o plot twist é mal executado e o que poderia ser um final surpreendente acaba se tornando uma confusão fraca e sem clímax.
With a better director and a few more passes at the script this could have been pretty good. It even manages a few tense moments in the last act, but it's frustrating to watch something and constantly be thinking of all the ways you (or someone more talented) could have improved it.
"People don't notice all the secrets around them. Even though they're right in front of them, just hiding, waiting to be found."
I loved how suspenseful and fun this movie was. It's a typical slasher, sure, but the story was captivating and the film does well in building tension until a sudden jump scare makes your heart stop. Also, I'm a sucker for Max Thieriot and his gorgeous blue eyes, so that helped. I will say I would have liked the characters to have been more fleshed out and less plot holes, but I'll look past it for now because I really enjoyed this movie.
#temporadademuertos2018 No. 11 Lo único bueno es JLaw y el final bastante inconcluso no con el final q nos dan queda claro (para mi)
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After a, apparently, tough divorce mother and daughter move to another city for restart and forget problems that were present in their regular lives before. The movie into a neighborhood that have one macabre event, a girl killed her parents with a hammer and have never being seen again until that very momment, a boy that, as they said, wich is the brother of the girl, he lived away in another city with his aunt, go back to that city and start living in the same house as the parents got killed, wich make a lot of people in the town despise and avoid him. Directed by Mark Tonderai. Written by David Loucka and Jonathan Mostow.
The biggest problem with…
Typical horror movie with a weak storyline. I only watched this because of Jennifer Lawrence...
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