House at the End of the Street Family Movie Review

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MPAA Rating
PG-13

for intense sequences of violence and terror, thematic elements, language, some teen partying and brief drug material

Genre
Drama, Thriller

Director
Mark Tonderai

Starring
Jennifer Lawrence, Elisabeth Shue, Max Thieriot, Gil Bellows

Studio
Relativity Media

Release Date/In Theaters
9/21/2012

House at the End of the Street Movie Summary

A move to a small, rural city was to be a fresh start for the newly divorced Sarah ( Elisabeth Shue) and her daughter (Jennifer Lawrence). However, the city has secrets especially about the house next door. A terrible murder took place next door, when a daughter murdered her parents but not her brother, Ryan. A friendship develops between Ryan and her daughter greatly concerns Sarah. Rightly so.

House at the End of the Street Movie Review for Parents

-by Ginger

All right movie fans, this one really creeps me out. As a seasoned veteran of the horror, thriller genre, this one really gives me the heebie geebies. House at the End of the Street is about a mother and daughter who move to a new town. Every town has its share of skeletons in the closet. Well, this town’s skeleton in the closet happens to be next door. The mother and daughter soon discover that the house next door to them is a house where a young girl murdered her parents. The daughter befriends the surviving son and the creeps continue. This family movie review does not think the House at the End of the Street is a movie for the very young, or weak at heart.

The mother and daughter hear about the horrible murders that took place next door. Supposedly the psycho daughter, Carry Ann, drowned in the dam after the murders, but local rumor has it that you can still see her in the woods…..creepy. When the daughter and son who survived the tragedy begin falling in love, strange things begin to happen in the background of the scenes. It seems that Carry Ann is jealous…intensely jealous.

There is lots of kissing on the couch and such as that. The young teen walks around the house in a tight tank top. The House at the End of the Street movie was rated PG-13 for the intensity of the violence and terror. It contains some foul language, as well as some teen partying and use of explicit drugs. It is a bad role model, but not untypical for the horror genre.

Much of the “horror” of the movie comes from fear of the unknown, anticipation combined with a suspenseful sound track. What does she find in the bathroom? Why does the plaster on the walls keep crumbling? Is it Carry Ann back to claim her last victim? What ARE those creepy things in the dim light in the basement and why does the electricity and Smartphone stop working at the same time? You will have to watch the movie, House at the End of the Street, to find out, but don’t do it with the light out!

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