House at the End of the Street [Blu-ray]

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Product Description ------------------- Jennifer Lawrence and Elisabeth Shue star in this psychological horror. When divorced mother Sarah (Shue) and her teenage daughter Elissa (Lawrence) move to a new town, they soon learn that their new home is located next door to a house in which a crazed girl bludgeoned her parents to death a few years previously. When Elissa befriends the surviving son of the family, Ryan (Max Thieriot), she discovers that there is more to the story than first meets the eye... .co.uk Review ------------- Boasting yet another terrific leading performance from Jennifer Lawrence, The House At The End Of The Street is a psychological thriller that wears its stripes by having a genre cliché present and correct in its title. It’s content to play with it though, and it sets its scene as Elisabeth Shue’s Sarah, the mother of Lawrence’s character, moves them into a new property that would ordinarily be well out of their price range. The reason it isn’t? That’d be the murder that took place next door. Enter, then, Max Thieriot’s Ryan as the survivor of said incident, and the mystery of what exactly took place deepens. It’s all a bit by the numbers in truth, but what lifts The House At The End Of The Street are two excellent acting performances. Both Shue and Lawrence give it their all here, and the film benefits enormously. Credit too should go to director Mark Tonderai, who follows up the quietly impressive Hush by injecting The House At The End Of The Street with a smattering of very, very impressive moments. The end result is a film that’s notably better than the story itself would suggest. The release isn’t beefed up a great deal by much in the extras department, incidentally, but the presentation of the film is suitably solid. --Jon Foster