House at the End of the Street
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|---|---|
| German title | House at the End of the Street |
| Original title | House at the End of the Street |
| Country of production | United States , Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 16 JMK 14 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Mark Tonderai |
| script |
David Loucka , Jonathan Mostow |
| production |
Aaron Ryder , Peter Block, Ryan Kavanaugh |
| music | Theo Green |
| camera | Miroslaw Baszak |
| cut |
Steve Mirkovich , Karen Porter |
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House at the End of the Street is an American psychological thriller of director Mark Tonderai from the year 2012 with the main actors Jennifer Lawrence , Elisabeth Shue and Max Thieriot .
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The newly divorced Sarah and her daughter Elissa find the house of their dreams in a small, elegant rural town. The two of them know from the start that years before a daughter killed her parents in the house next door and disappeared - her brother Ryan was expelled from the family at the age of seven because he was held responsible for an earlier accident in which the daughter was permanently damaged and was no longer the same afterwards. After the death of his parents, Ryan took possession of the family home again and now lives there as a social outsider, suspiciously eyed by neighbors and residents who see the neglected old building and its history as a negative factor for their own property values.
Against her mother's wishes, Elissa begins a relationship with the reclusive Ryan. What nobody suspects: The supposed daughter, Carrie Ann, lives in captivity in the air raid shelter of the parents' house and is looked after by Ryan there. Carrie Ann still seems very aggressive and can only be comforted by injections. Nevertheless, she tries again and again to flee, which she succeeds one day. She reaches Sarah and Elissa's house, but can be caught and brought back by Ryan in time. When Carrie Ann tries to escape again, Ryan accidentally kills her when he tries to calm her down so that she is not discovered. In the further course it turns out that Ryan has to keep a Carrie Ann because she was the center of the family's life. The real Carrie Ann, meanwhile, has continued to disappear. After the death of the first kidnapped woman, Ryan finds a new young woman in a diner, whom he kidnaps and takes to the bomb shelter.
When a group of young people demolished Ryan's car at the school's music festival and then attacked him too, he defended himself, breaking the leg of an attacker. Then he runs away. The juvenile attackers then drive to Ryan's house, believing it is his only place to hide. Elissa also drives Ryan's abandoned car to his house, where the teenagers have just thrown a Molotov cocktail through a pane of glass. Elissa enters the house alone and manages to smother the flames.
After fighting the fire, you accidentally look at the garbage can, which contains both a tampon and a packaging for blue contact lenses. Shortly afterwards she hears noises coming from the cellar. The noises come from an old dryer, which she turns off. She noticed a hinge under the rug on the floor, which she put to one side. There is a spiral staircase under the rug. She goes downstairs and comes to a locked door. However, since she has Ryan's keychain, she can unlock it. She walks into the room and is suddenly attacked by the young woman mistaken for Carrie Ann. At this moment Ryan also appears - and asks Elissa to wait for him upstairs so that he can explain everything to her. While she waits for him, she rummages through the rubbish again and, in addition to the tampons and contact lenses, also finds a young woman's student ID.
Slowly she realizes the gravity of the situation. Ryan asks her not to tell anyone about Carrie Ann. When she agrees and says she has to go, Ryan knocks her down from behind. When she comes to, she is tied up and locked in the secret basement with the student. However, since Ryan only wants a Carrie Ann (which Elissa should become), he wants to get rid of the unconscious student and carries her out of the room. Shortly afterwards, however, a police officer rings the doorbell and tells him that he will have to testify about his brawl the next day. He also asks if Ryan saw Elissa, which Elissa denies. After the policeman has left the house, however, he calls Elissa. Her cell phone, which fell out of her pocket, rings in Ryan's kitchen. Thereupon Ryan turns off the light, and the policeman enters the house again with his gun drawn and starts looking for Elissa.
As he is about to go down to the basement, he is surprised by Ryan, falls down the stairs and loses his gun. Ryan rams a knife into his stomach several times until he lies motionless. During the fight between the two, Elissa was able to free herself from her bonds. When Ryan re-enters the room where she is being held, she escapes into the garage. She wants to escape in the car, but the key is not in the car. Ryan catches up with her, numbs her with chloroform, and puts her in the trunk.
However, the doorbell rings again. It is Elissa's mother who is desperately looking for her daughter. Ryan pretends not to have seen her. But when the mother hears a noise from the cellar, she runs there. When she stands in front of the locked garage door, Ryan rams a knife into her stomach as well. Elissa has now freed herself from the trunk and hid in the basement. Ryan looks for her and tries to catch her again. Elissa manages to tear herself away, discovers the policeman's weapon and shoots Ryan with it, but Ryan takes cover in good time. He also turns off the power. Elissa has the policeman's flashlight and meets Ryan when he tries to attack her with the knife.
When she tries to take the keys for the cellar door from the pocket of the apparently dead Ryan, he grabs her hand and tries to injure her with the knife. But her mother can stretch him to the ground with a hammer. Ryan barely survives with two gunshot wounds and is admitted to a mental hospital.
At the end of the film, it turns out that Ryan's childhood sister not only died in the gambling accident, but her parents forced Ryan to take on the role of Carrie Ann. If he didn't, he was chastised. He was treated with the same methods (tranquilizers, house arrest) as he did with the young women. It is now clear that it was not Carrie Ann but Ryan who killed the parents. It is also learned that the policeman knew about the death of his sister (who buried Ryan's father in the forest) and that the family was covered.
Reviews
"Director Mark Tonderai approaches his characters with great respect and very carefully, which makes his psychological thriller a pleasantly unspeculative and sensitive genre contribution that always gets weakest when the tension screw is to be tightened in a conventional way."
“ House at the End of the Street tries the subtle way by building a mysterious puzzle around the last survivor of a brutal murder. Unfortunately, it takes far too long to really pack. And the general story can be given away completely. "
“ House at the End of the Street brings together some talented actors who, in this mixture of teenage drama and thriller, don't get enough material to really show their strengths. Worth a look for genre fans despite the lack of surprises. "
"The exciting basic idea was (...) implemented so unsatisfactorily with the usual punch and stab that you will probably forget this film sooner than the shameful result of the last Eintracht Frankfurt soccer game."
Web links
- House at the End of the Street at the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release to House at the End of the Street . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2013 (PDF; test number: 135 331 K).
- ↑ Age rating for House at the End of the Street . Youth Media Commission .
- ^ Review: House at the End of the Street . Filmstarts.de; Retrieved December 21, 2012.
- ^ Review: House at the End of the Street . Moviemaze.de; Retrieved December 21, 2012.
- ^ Review: House at the End of the Street . Film-Rezensions.de; Retrieved August 10, 2013.
- ^ Review: House at the End of the Street . epd-film.de; Retrieved April 10, 2015.