Horror films are something that many individuals are
attracted to. Many people love feeling the adrenaline rush that comes upon them
when watching that terrifying moment with the scary music surrounding it. In
the recently released movie “House at the
end of the Street” starring Jennifer Lawrence along with Max Thieriot, the
film was not as fascinatingas people thought it would be.
A brief summary of the plot contains
a mother and daughter move in a new town trying to heal the relationship that
they have with each other. They find out that the house next had a history of a
father and mother being killed by their own daughter. The daughter apparently
had brain damage and now no one knew where she was. With that being said the
man and women’s son Ryan was still living in it. Ryan and Elissa (Jennifer Lawrence)
built a sort of romantic relationship, but Elissa doesn’t realize that this guy
can potentially be a psycho.
According to the movie review, “The
whole thing is slackly staged, flatly acted, zero-suspense exposition.” They
expected more from a horror film along with Lawrence as an actress. She’s had such successful films, for example The Hunger Games and Winter’s
Bone. She is such a strong actress that they did not expect to see something
poor come from her. The ideology comes in place when talking about how poorly
this movie did. Critics compared this horror film to the ideology of how a horror
film should be. According to the writer the movie is a “rare horror film so bad
you almost wish it had turned into a good old connect-the-gory-dots slasher
movie.” What it should have been was a suspenseful horror film filled with
great excitement, with a strong actress making it incredible.
Along with the ideology about horror films the writer also connects
it to a wider discourse about entertainment. Entertainment is something that has been developed over the years. It engages the audience and the individuals are attracted to what they are doing/watching. Shakespear used his plays to amuse the audience and gladiator fights were formed in history to be distracting along with entertaining. Nowdays mostly everything in the media is entertaining.This film also came down to entertainment.People thought this film would be enjoyable but the entertainment factor was low. Since Lawrence’s previous films have been
really successful the writer was taken back on “how Lawrence's agent ever let
her sign on” this film. The discourse of entertainment and the ideology of horror films was lacked on this film. You can read the review of the movie in the link below.
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