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The End of Oak Street: David Robert Mitchell’s suburban dinosaur thriller

The End of Oak Street follows the Platt family, played by Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway, who wake to find their once-quaint neighborhood besieged by gigantic dinosaurs. The film is directed by David Robert Mitchell and blends suburban-home horror with large-scale creature spectacle. It explicitly draws on influences such as Gremlins, Poltergeist and Jurassic Park, representing a shift for Mitchell from intimate horror (It Follows) to broader blockbuster-style threats.

• Directed by David Robert Mitchell, best known for It Follows
• Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway star as Greg and Denise Platt
• Premise: the Platts awaken to discover their neighborhood overtaken by gigantic dinosaurs
• Tone and influences combine suburban-home terror with creature-feature spectacle, citing Gremlins, Poltergeist and Jurassic Park