With J.J. Abrams involved, there is a noticeable Amblin-era spirit running through the film, allowing Mitchell to express his inner Steven Spielberg without losing the qualities that make his work distinctive. David Robert Mitchell channels Spielberg in The End of Oak Street, a bloody sci-fi thriller packed with surprises and made for a rowdy theater crowd. Overall, The End of Oak Street feels designed for that communal theater experience: the nervous laughter, the sudden gasps, the occasional horrified yell, and those wonderful moments when an entire auditorium realizes, almost exactly at the same time, that something terrible is about to happen.