House at the End of the Street 2012

Critics score:
12 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: Originality, or lack thereof, isn't really the movie's problem. Execution is. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: A choppily edited, poorly timed mess with little continuity, overloaded with aural shocks in a desperate attempt to compensate for its minimal suspense. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: Goes flat and generic, substituting jump-scares and visual twitchiness for the psychological complexity that might have sold the horror. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: This is the rare horror film so bad you almost wish it had turned into a good old connect-the-gory-dots slasher movie. The only mystery at work is how Lawrence's agent ever let her sign on. Read more

William Goss, Film.com: Bland, bloodless babysitter bait. Read more

David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter: Feisty girl + troubled young man + house full of ugly secrets = hackneyed horror movie you've seen a hundred times before, even if Jennifer Lawrence keeps it watchable. Read more

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: What could be so bad about a new Jennifer Lawrence movie that its distributor opts to keep it away from critics and release it with minimal ad support? Please, allow "House at the End of the Street" to answer that question. Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Lawrence is perfectly in character yet somehow outside it too, floating above Elissa and the weak movie alike. Read more

Bruce Demara, Toronto Star: A thriller with a twisted ending that feels clumsy, laboured and unconvincing throughout. Read more

Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: There are one or two clever plot twists that are subsequently followed up by a cavalcade of ridiculous, credibility-stretching ones. Read more

A.A. Dowd, Time Out: Shockingly uneventful, this horror film marks time until dropping its big, dumb reveal. Read more

Geoff Berkshire, Variety: A schlockly spin on the girl-in-jeopardy genre. Read more

Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: Tonderai steers the story cleanly around its queasy hairpin turns, perversely toying with one of pop cinema's most cherished cliches: the audience's inculcated desire to side with the underdog. Read more