There’s no doubt this little horror film with some semblance of a plot keeps you wondering what will happen next. Hot off the Hunger Games, Elissa (Jennifer Lawrence) and her mother (Elizabeth Shue) rent a
house in the middle of nowhere – at the end of the street, of course – only to learn that the house next door comes with an urban myth….that once upon a time a young woman, sleeping walking and looking like a zombie, murdered her parents. And she’s still “out there.”
As the story continues on we meet the neighbors, and Tyler (Nolan Gerard Funk) the goody-two shoes straight A student set up to throw us off, we also meet Ryan (Max Thieriot) the brother of the crazy girl who murdered their parents.
As the plot thickens, one can’t help but wonder why the mother (Shue) recently divorced from Elissa’s father would take her from city life Chicago where she played in a band to the middle of nowhere. They know absolutely nobody and we assume they transferred there as the mother got a medical job at the local hospital, but couldn’t they have lived in a nice condo? Someplace far less remote and far less spooky?
Using her Katniss Everdeen skills, Lawrence will have to get herself out of the bind she’s in after lying to her mother as to her whereabouts. Despite a lame script, uneven moments, and average acting, Lawrence
carries this thriller that unlike most, actually has a plot. Two tiaras