Jennifer Lawrence’s Rare 101-Minute Movie Lands New Streaming Home This Week

The versatile Jennifer Lawrence is reportedly set to return to a genre where she has made a comfortable home over the years, reprising the role of Katniss Everdeen in the dystopian YA drama prequel Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping. This after playing Katniss in all installments of the original four-movie Hunger Games trilogy of stories.

But Lawrence’s output spans many genres besides the Hunger Games brand of sci-fi/action aimed at young adults. Her early career saw her tackling gothic drama in Winter’s Bone, getting her first Oscar nomination, then big-budget franchise superhero action in X-Men: First Class. Oscar glory came her way with the offbeat romantic-comedy Silver Linings Playbook, further nominations following for the period drama American Hustle, and the biopic Joy. Notably under-represented in Lawrence's resume is the horror genre, with rare exceptions like the 2012 psychological thriller House at the End of the Street.

Lawrence's House At The End Of The Street Hits Paramount+ In September

It Originally Released In 2012

Becoming a scream queen does not appear to be one of Lawrence’s big career aspirations, making her 2012 horror outing House at the End of the Street – set to hit Paramount+ on September 1 - something of an outlier in her filmography.

Completed in 2010 after a long detour through development hell, the psychological thriller was not released until 2012, when Lawrence’s star had already begun to soar. Relativity Media’s blatant attempt to cash in on the actor’s success worked out well, as the low-budget film went on to gross $44.3 million, a number it would’ve had no chance of reaching had its star not been one of the hottest names on the planet at the time it was finally sent to theaters.

House At The End Of The Street Remains One Of Lawrence's Only Horror Outings

Her Career Went Down a Different Path

Many a young actor has boosted their early career by appearing in low-budget horror, and stars like Jamie Lee Curtis, Neve Campbell, and Samara Weaving have enjoyed the experience enough to stick around and become genre stalwarts. Lawrence is the relatively rare example of a star whose early filmography is largely free of horror titles, as she attained huge success at a young age, and was able to skip her Scream Queen phase.

House at the End of the Street provides a glimpse of an alternate universe where Lawrence did not get an Oscar nomination at 20 for Winter’s Bone, going on to score huge roles in franchises immediately after, but instead enjoyed a typical career trajectory including low-budget fare, building up to a big breakout either in horror or some other form. Had it been released in this other universe, House at the End of the Street likely would have done little for Lawrence’s prospects anyway, given its 10% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

In the years since her sole early-career trip to the horrific side, Lawrence has revisited the genre only in art films that can’t be strictly categorized as horror. Mother! and Die My Love may feature extreme imagery and dark themes, but they are more heady allegorical explorations than true fright films. Her upcoming outing will seemingly change things, however, as Lawrence dives into genuine gothic horror alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese’s What Happens at Night.