When "House at the End of the Street" was first announced, studio Relativity Media said that their aim was to make a modern thriller in the vein of "Psycho." The similarities are there, some more overt than others (and some that should definitely go unspoken for spoiler purposes), but to compare a distaff, half-hearted genre piece like this to Hitchcock is almost like comparing "Meet the Spartans" to "Airplane!" in the annals of slapstick comedy. The bare framework is there, but the people behind the camera have no idea what it was that worked so well the first time around.
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