Ah, yes; ever since Wes Craven’s classic sicko horror film The Last House on the Left, horror filmmakers have been trying to ride the coattails of that movie and its title. There was The House at the Edge of the Park, another fun torture/rape romp for sickos (yuck!), Hitchhike: Last House on the Left, The Last House on Dead End Street, The Last House on the Beach, The House by the Edge of the Lake, The Last House in the Woods, etc. (I was always hoping for It Was Supposed to Be the Last House on the Left, but It Was the Last One on the Right, as It Turns Out, and its sequel, I Was Told It Would Be the Last House on the Left, but There Was Another House on the Left Past It, So That House Must Be a New House or Something, and I Hope All the Screaming Doesn’t Bother Them, but nobody had the foresight to make such visionary films.) But since all these movies are always about people getting killed in a house by slasher killers, why not simply call it The House at the End of the Knife? Or how about The House at the End of Your Life? That way, nobody could get confused and think it’s a movie about real estate or something.
But now that our culture has become so divided by politics, the makers of the new horror movie with the title ripped off from The Last House on the Left have decided not to take the chance of alienating or antagonizing either side of the aisle, and have opted for the elegant non-partisan-sounding solution: House on the End of the Street. Surely in an election year, it’s the only sensible thing to do! (And it sounds so much scarier than House on the Cul-de-Sac, doesn’t it?)
But if they really want to make a new slasher horror series, why not start with The House at the Beginning of the Street? Then the ads for each subsequent movie could say: “If you thought it was scary what happened at the beginning of the street, wait until you get further down…!” Or, how about The Last Unforeclosed House on the Left? (That would be a horror movie for underwater homeowners.) And they could have the slogan scream: “On a street full of foreclosures, no-one can hear you scream (because they’ve all been evicted)!”
This is House on the End of the Street, the most recent name-a-like horror movie:
