BlazeLime
Strong and Moving!
Holstra
Boring, long, and too preachy.
Dorathen
Better Late Then Never
rua_ridh-kerr
This film is a fairly average 2000s horror movie. Doesn't manage to build up much of an atmosphere throughout relying on jump scares for the fear factor. Some decent performances manage to keep the film interesting enough. The film seems like a worse version of The Shining without the tense atmosphere or the social commentary.
a_chinn
Bad remake that's even worse than bad original film. I really did want to like this remake. The original film is iconic, even if it's wildly overrated, is a laughably bad horror film. I'm a HUGE fan of the Platinum Dunes remake of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," which was an excellent remake of a legitimate horror classic, so when I saw they were tackling a remake of "The Amityville Horror," I figured it would be easier to do a improved version of a bad film than to try and redo a classic. This would be chance to fix all the bad elements of the original and to make an actually frightening "Based on a true story" haunted house movie. Instead, this remake takes far too many cues from the original and doesn't do them well at all. The remake does boast better special effects, some Grudge-like ghosts, and some Hellraiser-like gore, but really to very little effect. Ryan Reynolds and Melissa George play George and Kathy Lutz, the unfortunately new owners of the infamous Amityville murder house. Both give sincere performances, but the Reynolds' demonic possession that turns him into an evil dad comes off just as badly as it did when James Brolin did it in 1979. Of novelty value, Chloë Grace Moretz makes her film debut as one of the Lutz children, but I'm going to stick prior opinion that "Amityville 3D," directed by Hollywood veteran Richard Fleisher, remains the best of the Amityville series, even with it's PG rating.
michael-x-jackson-x-eva-x
The worst film ever. Not worth even wasting my time
reviewing this bs.
Movie Junkie
**Warning! Spoiler Info Inside**Having been steered away form this movie from the beginning , the movie found itself head to head with color bars and a third hour repeat of Sports center , and won.This was actually the only Amityville I had not seen. At the time it was buried under the "lame remake" opinion. Having reviewed it now I agree with remake , but find it not so lame.What was right in this movie. The writing. Scott Kosar's Re-Adaptation is very loyal to it's 1979 predecessor. Only a few well thought out twists are added and with the intent obviously of forming up the looser ends of the previous script.The acting. With a direct nod to Ryan Reynolds who I am certain spent considerable time and anguish reviewing James Brolin's 1979 take of George Lutz. Phillip Baker Hall is deserving of a nod for carefully reprising the nature of The priest Father Callaway , from the former Character Father Delaney by Rod Steiger. This being the film debut of Chloe Grace Moretz is another series parallel , as Amityville 3-d was the debut of Meg Ryan.What was wrong. The story is cold in reception , it is unable to generate either strong empathy for any character , and at the same time unable to completely engross you in fear. Ryan Reynolds fantastic mental break down even fueled by better visual material and story arc just can't make it over the top. As the operative character rabbiting the plot this makes for weak flow.When deciding on a movie truly being bad , less than three stars, as I firmly believe in the five star system. Movies like this one are easily reduced to a simple question. Did you waste your time? I was entertained by this film , and do not feel so.Three Stars(of 5)
