House at the End of the Streets Ending Twist Rips Off a Horror Classic

House at the End of the Street’s Ending Twist Rips Off a Horror Classic

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2012 horror/thriller House at the End of the Street features a memorable ending twist, the problem is that twist is ripped off from a 1980s slasher.

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House at the End of the Streets Ending Twist Rips Off a Horror Classic

2012 horror/thriller House at the End of the Street features a memorable ending twist, the problem is that twist is ripped off from a 1980s slasher. After sitting on a shelf for a couple years, House at the End of the Street managed to do pretty well financially once it finally hit theaters, despite negative reviews from critics. To be sure, a lot of that was likely due to lead Jennifer Lawrence having become a huge A-list star in the meantime.

Lawrence played Elissa Cassidy, a teenager who moves into a new neighborhood with her mother Sarah, played by Elisabeth Shue. The pair quickly learn about the titular house, in which a young woman named Carrie-Anne Jacobson murdered her parents and then disappeared. Left behind as the sole survivor was Ryan (Bates Motel’s Max Thieriot), who still lives in the house despite its past. Elissa soon embarks on a misguided romantic relationship with Ryan, and needless to say, that was a bad decision.

House at the End of the Street is, for the most part, a fairly generic story, elevated a bit by good performances, especially from the always reliable Lawrence. At first glance, its twist ending might seem creative, but the conclusion is actually a direct ripoff of a prior horror hit.

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House at the End of the Street’s Ending Twist Rips Off a Classic

During the ending of House at the End of the Street, it’s revealed that Carrie-Anne didn’t kill her parents, because Carrie-Anne actually died in an accident when she and Ryan were children. Ryan is the real killer, and he’s never been able to cope with his sister’s death. In an extra wrinkle, he’s been kidnapping women to try and make them into his new Carrie-Anne. After Carrie-Anne’s death, Ryan’s mother insisted he was no longer himself, making him live as Carrie-Anne. She accomplished this by literally beating him into mental submission. Naturally, this led to Ryan having a psychotic break and trouble maintaining his identity.

This twist is almost exactly the same as the one found in sleazy 1983 slasher Sleepaway Camp. At the end of the film, it’s revealed that shy girl Angela (Felissa Rose) had been the killer the whole time, and was actually not Angela, but her brother Peter. Angela had been killed in an accident when they were kids, along with their father, and Peter had been sent to live with his Aunt Martha, who already had a son and wanted a daughter. She forced Peter to become Angela, and it’s pretty clear that this unwilling identity change is what led Peter/Angela to become psychotic.

While some of the surrounding minutiae is different, it’s impossible for anyone who’s seen Sleepaway Camp to not immediately recognize how House at the End of the Street’s twist is almost exactly the same. It would be hard for the filmmakers to claim ignorance on this one either, as Sleepaway Camp’s twist is quite infamous among the horror community.

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