If you were looking for a few scares, critics say you won’t find them here at 11% on the Tomatometer, House at the End of the Street is a poorly executed chiller that makes little use of its star’s talents. The sole survivor (Max Thieriot) of a grisly murder spree years ago still occupies that house, and when he and Elissa begin a relationship, she slowly begins to unravel all the terrible secrets that exist. In this horror thriller, a divorced mother (Elisabeth Shue) and her daughter Elissa (Lawrence) move into a new home, next door to a house with a dark past.

Jennifer Lawrence earned a Best Actress nomination for her work in Winter’s Bone, and while (almost) every film she’s done since then has been Fresh, 2012’s House at the End of the Street proves they can’t all be winners. It’s a tricky thing to earn an Oscar nod early in your career folks will forever expect the same quality of work with every new role. Certified Fresh at 89%, it’s an odd little family movie, but one that’s fun to watch.

Frankenweenie is about as “Tim Burton” as you can get, but his personal touch, his obvious love for both the story and the stop-motion craft, infuses the film with energy. The story is essentially an embellished version of the short: a young boy by the name of Victor Frankenstein (voiced by Charlie Tahan) brings his dog Sparky back to life, but his classmates also discover the reanimation formula and inadvertently begin turning dead animals into monsters it’s up to Victor and Sparky to help save the town.

Since that film - originally intended to play before screenings of Disney’s Pinocchio in 1984 - was deemed too scary for young audiences, Burton waited until he was a big name before bringing the little pooch back to the cinemas, this time in stop-motion animation. Before he found his soul mates in Johnny Depp and Danny Elfman, Tim Burton put together a short film about young boy who brings his pet dog back to life and called it Frankenweenie.

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