The End of Oak Street can definitely be scary, although it is closer to a dinosaur adventure with a mean streak than a full-blown horror movie. David Robert Mitchell, the director of It Follows and Under the Silver Lake, sets the film in 1982, when an unexplained cosmic event rips a quiet suburban street out of its surroundings and drops it into a prehistoric world full of hungry dinosaurs. Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor star as Denise and Greg Platt, parents of a family already falling apart before they are forced to survive with little more than hammers and kitchen knives.
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Much of the fear in The End of Oak Street comes from how Mitchell reveals his creatures. The dinosaurs are first glimpsed in brief flashes before showing up in full, and they often lurk in the background before closing in on the neighbors. Critics have singled out Michael Giacchino’s score and the sound design for amplifying the tension, and several have called it scarier than the recent Jurassic sequels, including Jurassic World Rebirth.
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The End of Oak Street is more intense than a typical family blockbuster. There are plenty of dinosaur attacks, and several critics say the bloodshed pushes its rating about as far as it can go, though others found the gore fairly restrained. The movie balances its frights with plenty of humor and a warm, Spielberg-inspired family story, so older kids and teens who can handle Jurassic Park should be fine. Younger or more sensitive viewers, however, may find the chase sequences and attacks genuinely frightening.
