House At The End Of The Street claims to be a horror film. Up until the last half an hour....that claim is false. Yes....despite an excellent performance from the beautiful and charming Jennifer Lawrence and an alright villain in Max Thieriot the film fails to provide the goods necessary to making a good horror film. It feels as if first time feature director Mark Tonderai is trying to impress us with his knowledge of horror and building suspense but just ends up boring the audience.
In the film...Lawrence plays Elissa..a high school student who moves in to a new house with her mom (Elisabeth Shue.) Due to an incident that happened at the house next door years ago...everyone is afraid to go near either house. This is when Elissa meets Ryan (Thieriot) whose sister caused the incident and who may be hiding a secret of his own.
The film does have a couple of great twists and some general suspense in the last half an hour but it takes so long to build up to there. It just becomes boring after a while watching these people talk that I wished it would have just started being suspenseful. It is never a good connect the dots mystery because you do not get any hints at the twists. Also...Shue is terrible as the concerned mother and all the scenes between her and Lawrence are painfully boring to watch.
Overall....House At The End Of The Street is not very good. It is cliche but not all that predictable and is almost always weird. I would say pay half the price for the last half an hour..you will feel less ripped off that way.
(2 out of 5 Stars, The film is rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and terror, thematic elements, language, some teen partying and brief drug material)
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