Several horror movies are ranking high on the Tubi streaming app this month. You are probably familiar with some like The Nun, Terrifier, or the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. But there are a few that aren’t as high profile, one of them is the 2012 horror/thriller House at the End of the Street.
Technically, this movie was what launched Jennifer Lawrence (Passengers) as a leading actress. You see, this film was completed in 2010 but shelved until two years later. Then in 2012 when Lawrence had finished Hunger Games, perhaps to capitalize on that movie, House at the End of the Street was dusted off and released. The studio even moved the release date from April, when Hunger Games hit theaters, to September to get some traction from Lawrence’s star turn.
House at the End of the Street was also in the can before Lawrence starred in the mental health drama Silver Linings Playbook (also released in 2012) in which she received her first Oscar.
Even though it was considered a stinker at the time and therefore put on the back burner, it remains a solid action thriller packed with plenty of suspense and plot twists.
Lawrence plays Elissa, a 17-year-old who moves into a neighborhood next to a house with a troubling past. That house is notorious for the double murder that took place years before wherein a mother and father were killed. Their teenage daughter who is suspected of committing the murders disappeared into the neighboring woods the night of the killings never to be found. Her brother Ryan, now orphaned lives in the house alone having become the neighborhood pariah.
Most movies of this ilk are predictable and derivative, and House at the End of the Street might be deemed as such, but it delivers some top-notch performances from Lawerence and her co-stars Elizabeth Shue and Max Thieriot.
This might be a great Halloween film for those who aren’t into all the gore of traditional seasonal fare. It’s a creepy thriller with horror elements and it’s also fun to watch the mystery unravel until the nail-biting ending.
You can watch House at the End of the Street right now on Tubi.