Monday, August 12, 2013

House at the End of the Street (2012) Review and Summary




Review:
Major plot twists!  Usually I can get a good idea on how the movie will end within the first 20 minutes.  I was so wrong with this one.  About 40 minutes into the movie you will be so confused, and wondering, "what the heck are they going to do for forty more minutes?"

Ryan is the cute young guy with the awful past that lives by himself and Jennifer's character becomes interested in him.  The whole town treats him like a disease because his mentally challenged sister killed his parents and disappeared in the woods.


At least that’s what the rumor is..

Summary:
It shows Ryan unlocking some secret room in the basement where a young lady is staying. He feeds her and she tries to attack him, so he gives her sedative of some sort then locks the room back up.  He calls her Carrie Ann, so we assume that he's taking care of her.  

So 'Carrie Ann', the mentally unstable sister of the cute and emotionally scarred Ryan dies like 40 minutes in.  He is struggling to contain her after she escapes the house again and he accidentally snaps her neck.  But don't feel too bad for him.  


Turns out Carrie Ann died when they were both little in a swing accident.  His druggie parents told everyone Ryan went to stay with his aunt, but they actually put a wig on him and made him be Carrie Ann.  So he is actually the one that killed his parents because he was tired of being his sister.

He kidnaps girls with brown hair, makes them live in his basement, and makes them be Carrie Anne.  Which is why the one escaped and was struggling against him when he snapped her neck.

He 'needs Carrie Ann' though so he picks up another one at a dinner with some chloroform.  Jennifer Lawrence's character then finds blue contact lenses and tampons in his kitchen trash can and a wallet belonging to a female Penn State student.


She figures out what's going on and he wants to kill the girl he got at the diner so that Jennifer's character can be Carrie 
Anne.  Her mom helps her escape and he dies.  And the only person in town that stood up for him, the local sheriff, is killed in the process as well.


In the end you either feel sorry for him or you hate him.

I rated it this highly because it did keep me interested and it had a major plot twist that made sense.

Is it scary?  No


Is it emotional?  Yes

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