It Follows director David Robert Mitchell's dinosaur thriller The End Of Oak Street, starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor, is short, snappy, and has a PG-13 rating. Update: It Follows director David Robert Mitchell’s new film was billed from the beginning as an IMAX summer thrill ride, and The End Of Oak Street looks as ... The End Of Oak Street is 99 minutes long, rated PG-13
It Follows director David Robert Mitchell's dinosaur thriller The End Of Oak Street, starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor, is short, snappy, and has a PG-13 rating.
Update: It Follows director David Robert Mitchell’s new film was billed from the beginning as an IMAX summer thrill ride, and The End Of Oak Street looks as though it’s filling that remit.
A classification for the movie recently appeared on the Motion Picture Association’s website, where the dinosaur-thrilled adventure has been given a PG-13 rating for “some strong content, bloody images, some strong language and suggestive material.”
That rating will almost certainly be echoed with a 12A rating in the UK, though we’ll have to see how the BBFC reacts to it in the coming days.
Multiple websites, including AMC Theatres and World Of Reel, also report that The End Of Oak Street has a duration of one hour, 39 minutes. In a filmmaking climate where major films are commonly over the 130 minute mark, it sounds as though Mitchell’s film will be a refreshingly brisk, direct affair.
For the uninitiated, The End Of Oak Street is about a suburban family – played by Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, Maisy Stella and Christian Convery – whose neighbourhood is suddenly uprooted and sent back to the time of the dinosaurs. This means there aren’t just velociraptors all up in the kitchen – they’re also lurking behind bins and angrily patrolling zebra crossings.
It’s undergone a few delays and a title change (it was called Flowervale Street for a while), but we’re quietly hoping Mitchell’s delivered the scaly, summer blockbuster-y goods here.
The End Of Oak Street is in UK cinemas from the 14th August.
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2nd June 2026: There are sauropods and split-diopter shots aplenty in the new trailer for The End Of Oak Street – the forthcoming summer action adventure from writer-director David Robert Mitchell.
If you want the snappy elevator pitch, it’s dinosaurs in suburbia. Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, Maisy Stella and Christian Convery play the Spielbergian American family who find their entire neighbourhood has been swept up in some sort of time slip and transported back to the time of the thunder lizards. All of which means there are dinosaurs scampering past bins and BMX bikes, roaring and biting the head off a lady up the road who you think might have been named Janet.
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Look, we’re buying a ticket based on the premise alone. But this is also the first film in years from Mitchell, the director of one of the best horror films of the 2010s (It Follows) and a brilliantly weird cult classic (Under The Silver Lake), making The End Of Oak Street one of our most anticipated movies on the horizon.
The movie is also building up a library of classy posters. Just look at these:
The End Of Oak Street is in UK cinemas from the 14th August.
Our previous story follows…
26th March 2026: The world started going seriously wrong when Hollywood filmmakers stopped making (nominally) family-friendly adventure movies with horror overtones – films like Poltergeist and Gremlins, that drove ratings boards to their wits’ end.
Well, here comes It Follows director David Robert Mitchell with The End Of Oak Street – his “IMAX thrill-ride” where dinosaurs come to suburbia.
There’s a definite Spielbergian streak to the film formerly known as Flowervale Street, from its neat, all-American neighbourhood to the distinct air of menace hanging over its wholesome family.
The plot is straight out of The Twilight Zone: the Platt family – played by Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, Maisy Stella and Christian Convery – find their neighbourhood sent back to the age of the dinosaurs following some inexplicable event. How did it happen? How on earth do they get back?
Like any decent teaser trailer, this one is coy about the details, instead efficiently sets up that fantastical premise. It’s all wonderfully moody – we like that prowling opening shot down the hallway, and the split-diopter shot of Hathaway laying out their predicament in hushed tones. We do love a good split-diopter shot.
There’s the briefest glimpse of a menacing thunder lizard, seen through a window, and a fun wide digital matte shot of the edge of the neighbourhood, houses and even a school bus sliced clean in two. Our money’s one a science project gone awry, like The Philadelphia Experiment with scales. Anyone remember The Philadelphia Experiment? No, not the film with Tom Hanks.
The End Of Oak Street is in UK cinemas from the 14th August. Count us in.
