Oh yay, another Amityville film! Because that's what 2018 needed *Sigh*.
Starring a couple of industry veterans and former cast members of previous Amityville movies this dull lifeless effort has done nothing to reinvigorate a stale franchise or turn this dreadful year for movies around.
Instead of covering the Lutz family as many of the previous have it tells the original story of the Defeo family building up to the tragedy that befell them. The trouble is alike the Lutz's we don't really know what happened and therefore a huge chunk of the movie is pure fiction and supernatural garbage.
Ronnie Defeo went from room to room shooting his family as they lay in bed. The mystery being how none of them heard the gunshots, how they were all shot in bed (Blood stains proved they hadn't been moved) and why neighbours also were oblivious to what took place. Yes it's a mystery, no I don't believe it was demonic forces!
The Amityville murders does have some good performances and it was fantastic to see Burt Young on screen in 2018, but it's so darn boring!
For huge fans of the Amityville legend only I'd say.
The Good:
Dead Island trailer theme (Weirdly)
Some good cast members
Good performances in places
The Bad:
Criminally boring
Just shouldn't exist
Things I Learnt From This Movie:
Mothers are more concerned with their kids art style than their drug use
Changing the details in a true story makes perfect sense
Starring a couple of industry veterans and former cast members of previous Amityville movies this dull lifeless effort has done nothing to reinvigorate a stale franchise or turn this dreadful year for movies around.
Instead of covering the Lutz family as many of the previous have it tells the original story of the Defeo family building up to the tragedy that befell them. The trouble is alike the Lutz's we don't really know what happened and therefore a huge chunk of the movie is pure fiction and supernatural garbage.
Ronnie Defeo went from room to room shooting his family as they lay in bed. The mystery being how none of them heard the gunshots, how they were all shot in bed (Blood stains proved they hadn't been moved) and why neighbours also were oblivious to what took place. Yes it's a mystery, no I don't believe it was demonic forces!
The Amityville murders does have some good performances and it was fantastic to see Burt Young on screen in 2018, but it's so darn boring!
For huge fans of the Amityville legend only I'd say.
The Good:
Dead Island trailer theme (Weirdly)
Some good cast members
Good performances in places
The Bad:
Criminally boring
Just shouldn't exist
Things I Learnt From This Movie:
Mothers are more concerned with their kids art style than their drug use
Changing the details in a true story makes perfect sense