Maidgethma
Wonderfully offbeat film!
Stephanie
There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
Allissa
.Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
Larsii90
Im a huge horror fan, and I always check the general scores of horror flicks before I see them. Despite less than avarage score and many bad reviews, I watched it anyway because I've been waiting for its release a long time. I was positively surprised! It's not amazing, but a solid sequel and I liked how meta it was posing as a sequel to the first film, but then they brought up that film, the sequel and its 2005 reboot. Acting is OK, no really great characters, but absolutely good enough film for a sunday night. I've seen far worse many times the last year that were bigger hits.
paulclaassen
This was by far the best Amityville film since the original. The film starts off like all other haunted house films with a new family moving into a haunted house. This one does stand out from the crowd, though. It is really haunting and creepy. The film also has depth and emotion unlike any other Amityville film (or haunted house film for that matter), especially thanks to Cameron Monaghan's character, who we root for. The visuals are incredible, yet very subtle. This was simply freakin' awesome! The film features a beautiful sore, too.
blue-flower-177
Could have been way better, but it is still engaging and decent, the acting is good, great talent!
fjk1138-731-161881
What happens when you expect nothing from a movie, but then get even less than that? Well...you get a piece of crap like this.This is barely an attempt at horror, with barely any scares, and it drips the blood of the series' nostalgia more than anything else. The plot is severely weak, and it's worsened by the fact that it pulls the other movies into the story. No, I don't mean just by referencing the events, I mean they literally reference three of the movies here - one of the characters holds up DVDs of Amityville 1, 2, and the remake and suggests they watch them at 3:15 am. Huh? What?? That is the point where they lost me, and the stupid story took a deep six right down the well to hell right then and there. Speaking of which, that comes into play here yet again (people who have owned the real house have to be just shaking their heads by now) and hey guess what? That's the source of the evil again! Wow, didn't see that coming.The acting is pretty meh, and all I can assume is the actors all had some bills to pay to even participate here. The house looks too neat, new, and clean to have any menace to it. It's also completely physically positioned incorrectly, made worse by the fact that they show photos at the start of the movie of the actual house where you can clearly see how close the neighbors are. And to think that all the other supposed occupants wouldn't have pitched that stupid "high hopes" sign into the trash is completely pathetic. The musical score, while mot bad for what it is, is no match for the creepy, squeaky strings and children's voices that Lalo Schifrin made work far more effectively almost 40 years ago now.There is basically no point to this movie. It's nothing you haven't seen before, quite literally, and it's not worth your time. Don't bother, and I hope the studios all don't bother with future installments either.
