Review of House at the End of the Street (2012) by Truecriticmatt — 30 May 2021

Jennifer Lawrence was of course, as she prefers herself to be, a gorgeous young woman in this movie, the problems being her acting along with the others and the fact they made this more a predictable suspense thriller instead of a horror.

They substituted jump scares for psychological complexity and although I prefer this anyway, the audience were bound to criticise. The audience usually inculcate which is what happened where they believe the person is innocent, either that be Jennifer’s spoilt character or Max, then their left dissatisfied.

That’s not really a twist, like I mentioned it was obvious which only reduces the ratings. There are moments of things being sturdy enough and watchable but they failed to deliver. In terms of the performances, it’s the same as every film, a bunch of hormonally driven spoilt teens.

The constant licking lips and gulping air pouting for the leads didn’t wash with me as all they were doing was drawing attention to themselves ready for a kiss. Think about what I just said and rewatch it I mean it’s very poor acting and a poor performance from the cast.

Flat, generic and not at all going to score highly it failed miserably as the makers concentrated too much on the wrong stuff which detached its audience. A laughable moment the woman locked away actually wakes up with her hair and make up done.

I mean come on. Jennifer is too busy trying to achieve maximum attention on screen with strange make up she demonstrates her bad habits on the camera. All in all a very poor movie.