House at the End of the Street (2012)

After moving with her mother to a small town, a teenager finds that an accident happened in the house at the end of the street. Things get more complicated when she befriends a boy who was the only survivor of the accident.

Director:

Mark Tonderai

Writers:

David Loucka (screenplay), Jonathan Mostow (story)

Stars:

Jennifer Lawrence, Elisabeth Shue, Max Thieriot

1 win & 3 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jennifer Lawrence	...	Elissa
Max Thieriot	...	Ryan
Elisabeth Shue	...	Sarah
Gil Bellows	...	Weaver
Eva Link	...	Carrie Anne
Nolan Gerard Funk	...	Tyler
Allie MacDonald	...	Jillian
Jordan Hayes	...	Penn State Carrie Anne
Krista Bridges	...	Mary Jacobson
James Thomas	...	Ben Reynolds
Hailee Sisera	...	Caitlin
Craig Eldridge	...	Dan Gifford
Jonathan Higgins	...	Dr. Kohler
Olivier Surprenant	...	Jake (as Oliver Soul)
Lori Alter	...	Jenny Gifford

Storyline

Newly divorced Sarah and her daughter Elissa 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.

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Plot Keywords:

dead body in a car trunk | dead woman | drunkenness | peephole | intoxication | 

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Taglines:

Fear reaches out... for the girl next door.

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Genres:

Drama | Horror | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and terror, thematic elements, language, some teen partying and brief drug material

Details

Official Sites:

Official site [Japan]

Country:

Canada USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

21 September 2012 (USA)

Also Known As:

La casa de al lado

Filming Locations:

Algonquin College, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

$6,900,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$12,287,234, 23 September 2012, Wide Release

Gross USA:

$31,611,916

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$40,494,035

Company Credits

Production Co:

Relativity Media, FilmNation Entertainment, A Bigger Boat

Technical Specs

Runtime:

101 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital SDDS Datasat

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The project was originally announced in 2003 with Jonathan Mostow directing and Richard Kelly scripting.

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Goofs

In one scene, while Ryan and Elissa are kissing in his house, the girl in the basement hears them through a baby monitor, and decides to escape as a result. However, it doesn't make sense for Ryan to have set up the baby monitor so that only the girl in the basement can hear him, while he cannot hear her. It would make more sense for the two parts of the baby monitor to be switched so that he can hear her.

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Quotes

Sarah: I know what you're doing.
Elissa: What?
Sarah: You're trying to save him.
Elissa: I am not.
Sarah: Yes, you are. That's what you do, you like to fix people.
Elissa: Oh, yaddayadda-yadda.
Sarah: Honey, sometimes people can't be fixed.

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Alternate Versions

-SPOILER- The most significant addition is a 30-second scene where it's revealed that Officer Weaver was deeply involved in the events that transpired before the movie, basically implicating him for much of what happened. The PG-13 omits this twist entirely.

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Connections

Referenced in Midnight Movie Review: House at the End of the Street (2012)

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Soundtracks

Rock Star
performed by Dallas Reeves

User Reviews

Not bad but not good either...

I went to see HOUSE AT THE END OF THE STREET last night and didn't enjoy it as much as I hoped I would. The story is dull and predictable and the acting isn't rocksolid!Jennifer Lawrence played her role well though, she "blows" everyone away in this movie BUT, on the other hand, and I don't want to sound too negative, this flick wasn't a very hard nut for her to crack!

The story ;

Elissa (Lawrence) moves into a new home together with her mom Sarah(Elisabeth Shue) and finds out that the son of a murdered couple, who lived next door, still lives in the house where his parents were killed. The surrounding neigbours complain about him and tell Elissa that the boy is bad news! She wants to find out herself though and steps into his life...

It's a not a very bad movie but skip the theatre and wait for it on bluray/DVD.