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Chargement... House at the End of the Street [2012 Film]par Mark Tonderai (Directeur), Steven Mirkovich (Directeur de publication), Karen Porter (Directeur de publication)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Elissa (Lawrence) and her mother Sarah (Elisabeth Shue) move into a beautiful new house and soon discover that the neighbouring property was the site of a double murder. Disconcertingly Ryan (Max Thieriot), the creepy son of the slain couple, is living in the murder house. The locals are highly concerned about Ryan and Sarah becomes increasingly concerned when Elissa develops a relationship with Ryan. "House at the End of the Street" is less horror film and more a young adult thriller. Director Mark Tonderai builds some nice suspense and there are a couple of decent semi-obligatory jump scares in the mix. David Loucka's screenplay has a number of predictable twists and there is a slightly reactionary under-current of "mother knows best". Jennifer Lawrence makes for a strong, appealing lead despite having to behave a touch silly at times. "House at the End of the Street" is a predictable and slightly dumbed-down thriller, but it is fairly inoffensive and reasonably entertaining for all that. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Newly divorced Sarah and her teenage daughter Elissa have just moved to the suburbs for a fresh start. But their hopes quickly shatter as they learn that, years earlier, a grisly murder took place next door when a deranged girl killed her parents and disappeared. The girl's older brother Ryan still occupies the house, and when he befriends Elissa, his secretive past could become her worst nightmare. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Carrie Anne hasn't been seen since and is assumed to be dead. Ryan survived because he was living with his aunt at the time, but now he's back and is reluctant to sell his family's home. Elissa finds herself intrigued by Ryan, who is polite, sad, and withdrawn but seems to be equally intrigued by her. Unfortunately, Ryan is keeping some dangerous secrets.
I went into this blind, expecting it to be more of a ghost movie due to the image of Carrie Anne on the back of the DVD case (black-and-white, with Carrie Anne dressed in white and her hair covering her face, Sadako-style). That's not what it turned out to be, and I was a little surprised that it revealed as much as it did as early as it did. That, unfortunately, didn't work in its favor, because it meant I predicted a good bit of the "big reveal" well before it actually happened. After all, when your thriller reveals its twist really early, it's natural to think "okay, that probably means there's at least one more twist that's even bigger."
For the most part, this movie was a forgettable sort of okay. I had a tough time getting a grasp on Elissa and her family. For a while there, I thought her father might have died, but I think he and her mother just got a divorce? There was a conversation about how he was hardly ever there, but from the sounds of things, he'd been raising Elissa for a while before she somehow ended up with Sarah. At any rate, Elissa railed against any and all of Sarah's efforts to set up ground rules for her - I don't know which one I was supposed to sympathize with more, but I ended up being vaguely irked by both of them due to how they handled things. Sarah was downright rude towards Ryan for no reason that I could see beyond "the movie needs Elissa to have a reason to actively rebel against her mother right now." And Elissa got mad at her mother for the assumptions she made, while simultaneously doing things that confirmed her mother's concerns were valid.
Although this did have some suspenseful moments, particularly near the end, it was fairly predictable once I had a minute to think about its one surprising scene. There are definitely lots of better thrillers out there.
(Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.) ( )