Saturday, October 6, 2012

House at the End of the Street Review + Spoiler

Here is the summary directly from Fandango.com since I'm horrible at summaries,

"Seeking a fresh start, newly divorced Sarah (Elisabeth Shue) and her daughter Elissa (Jennifer Lawrence) find the house of their dreams in a small, upscale, rural town. But when startling and unexplainable events begin to happen, Sarah and Elissa learn the  town is in the shadows of a chilling secret. Years earlier, in the house next door, a daughter killed her parents in their beds, and disappeared - leaving only a brother, Ryan (Max Thieriot), as the sole survivor. Against Sarah's wishes, Elissa begins a relationship with the reclusive Ryan - and the closer they get, the deeper they're all pulled into a mystery more dangerous than they ever imagined"

I don't know about you, but I absolutely love horror movies. Before I saw this, I thought that it was going to be a horror movie, but later found out it was suspense/thriller. This totally disappointed me! I viewed the trailer on the Fandango app and thought it was horror and it was going to be a ghost that was haunting the house and that the main character was seeing a ghost girl, but...no! This movie is about a girl named Elissa, who is 17-years-old, and she becomes close to the brother, Ryan, of the girl who killed her parents. Everyone else in the town thinks Ryan is weird and they don't associate with him because he lives in his parents house by himself...even though his parents are dead. Anyway, as the story progresses we find out that Ryan's sister supposedly killed his parents since she was a little demented from a fall off of a swing when they were little. But...you find out in the end that it actually wasn't like that. SPOILER ALERT!!!! It turns out that Ryan's parents forced him to be the daughter because it was Ryan's fault that made the daughter die. They were on the swings outside when they were little and Ryan's sister went too high and fell off the swing and died. Thus, he was then the "replacement" daughter. He hated how his parents treated him; they were punishing him for what he did. He became tired of it and that's why he killed his parents. So, near the end we find out that Ryan can't live without his sister so he brings in girls and locks them up in his basement and pretends that they're his sister. When Elissa came along he wanted her to be his new sister and thus ties her up...and you can tell what happens...the usual part where she gets out and tries to get away.

Ok, so that was really just me summarizing the whole entire movie! I thought it was pretty good and it was--to me--unexpected that Ryan would bring in girls to be his sister. I totally thought that the girl who he originally had in the basement was his sister all along. I think the movie could have been better. I wasn't too intrigued just because there wasn't that many jumpy parts. The movie takes place for about maybe 5 days, more or less, which is alright. The movie didn't move too fast...but then again, it could have been better. What are your thoughts?

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