5/10
Good Premise but not Well Executed and Full of Clichés
22 December 2012
Warning: Spoilers
The divorced Dr. Sarah Cassidy (Elisabeth Shue) and her teenage daughter Elissa (Jennifer Lawrence) move to a wonderful house in a small town in the countryside. Sarah can only afford the place because the house is close to another house where a girl stabbed to death her parents. Soon Elissa befriends the outcast college student Ryan (Max Thieriot), who inherited the house from his parents, and she falls in love with him. But Ryan secretly keeps his sister captive in the basement using drugs to control her. One night, Elissa snoops around Ryan's house and she discloses dark secrets about her boyfriend.

"House at the End of the Street" is a horror movie with a good premise but unfortunately not well executed. The plot has a good mystery that is revealed early and the last twist in the very end when Ryan discovers the secret about his sister is not well explored. The result is a conventional and disappointing commercial movie full of clichés. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): "A Última Casa da Rua" ("The Last House of the Street")
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