In the hands of director David Robert Mitchell, who made breakout horror hit It Follows, this is a moving, funny and thrilling family-friendly 12A romp, which still has a murky dark heart at the centre.
Greg has lost his job, Denise is writing a book about running away, Brian has a school mate out to get him and Audrey is lost in the stars. The Stranger Things vibes come hard, until one night a storm and intense light flashes shut off the power and the water.
Keen to investigate and find their missing dog, the family discover a circular region of about two miles has been transported to a whole new era. Oak Street and vicinity are suddenly plopped in the centre of a prehistoric forest, packed with dinos, geysers and tropical foliage.
View Green Video on the source websiteThis is fairly kid-friendly fare, with most of the deaths happening off screen, at a distance or focused on characters we haven’t met, although there is one sensational and genuinely shocking moment with a main player. The humour here is gentle but endearing too, from an early sequence with a massive dinosaur poo the Platts’ neighbour blames on the kids, to a pair of dinos getting it on, on top of a house.
The sound design here is exceptional, the eel oozing its way between floors in our peripheral vision as the team raid medicine cupboards and forage for food, unaware of the ginormous pallid snake-like creature preparing to strike.
Produced by JJ Abrams and Bad Robot, this is very good-natured stuff but it’s also colourful, pacy and slick and, at 1hr 40, it actually feels short – unusual for a modern movie.
Though it owes a debt to the summer big-guns of yore, this isn’t actually blockbuster scale – despite studio backing, The End of Oak Street has indie vibes. Never more so, in fact, than at the end, where ambiguities mean this could be sweet, happy and satisfying, or incredibly dark and disturbing. Take it as you will. Roarsome.
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