House at the End of the Street
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Mixed or average reviews- based on 65 Ratings
- Starring: Elisabeth Shue, Gil Bellows, Jennifer Lawrence, Max Thieriot
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- Director: Mark Tonderai
- Genre(s): Thriller, Horror
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Positive: 1 out of 19
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Mixed: 8 out of 19
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Negative: 10 out of 19
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70Working from a story by all-around genre specialist Jonathan Mostow, director Mark Tonderai steers the story cleanly around its queasy hairpin turns, perversely toying with one of pop cinema's most cherished clichés: the audience's inculcated desire to side with the underdog.
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58Working from a solid template is only half the battle; the other half is filling in the details, and it's here that The House At The End Of The Street goes flat and generic, substituting jump-scares and visual twitchiness for the psychological complexity that might have sold the horror.
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Sep 21, 201238Most of the comedy, however, is unintentional. House At The End of the Street may not draw much of an audience during its initial run, but the movie's preposterousness certifies it for future midnight screenings, where the story will get the jeering it deserves.
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Sep 21, 201230Lawrence's natural, disarming screen presence is ill-suited to something as mannered and labored as House at the End of the Street, and at moments it's as if she freezes up, unable to simply throw on a scared-face for no good reason.
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Positive: 7 out of 22
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Mixed: 8 out of 22
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Negative: 7 out of 22
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