View all Streaming Sites. More Movie News ». More FS Movie News ». View all Movies Sites. More TV News ». More FS Entertainment News ». View all TV Shows Sites. More Reality TV News ». View all Celebrities Sites. More Fantasy News ». More Gaming News ». More ESports News ». The film begins as a domestic drama in which single mother Joan Jason Leigh moves her three children into a more affordable home to pay for her son's medical bills.
Unbeknownst to the children, Joan has moved them into the notorious Amityville house, leading to an escalation of intense demonic possession. On the very first night that they move in, inexplicably eerie phenomena begin to occur. Doors begin banging, evil messages written on the wall, a mysterious tunnel leading to an unknown place is discovered, etc.
As time passes, it soon becomes clear that Tony's eldest child Sonny Jack Magner is the target of a wickedly possessive demon. The remake closely adheres to the plot of the original, in which an idyllic nuclear family unit movies into their dream home, unaware that the price has been reduced due to the grisly slaughter that occurred there one year prior.
The R-rated remake also stars a young Chloe Grace Moretz in her feature film debut. It should come as no surprise to see the original Amityville Horror movie rank the highest among the film franchise, according to IMDB. James Brolin and Margot Kidder star as a married couple who relocate their three young children into an idyllic new home, only to be terrorized and tormented by a vengeful spirit.
The spirit turns out to be that of Ronald DeFeo, one of the victims murdered in the very house the year before the Lutz family moved in. Blood oozes from the walls and drips down the stairs, a hidden red room is discovered in the basement, and several attempts on the family's lives are made before they make an ultimate escape. By Jake Dee Published Oct 03, Share Share Tweet Email 0. We get a preview from the priest of how bad things are going to get and that imbues every minor thing that happens to George or Kathy with extra dollop of anticipation.
Yes, that is Satan in your pajama bottoms. Another standout moment in the original, even all these decades later, is a demonstration of how important actors can and should be to motion pictures. The look of overwhelming fear they project through the screen is more powerful than any prop, camera trick, or computer image will ever be.
A solid script, superb direction from Stuart Rosenberg, and Margot Kidder at perhaps her peak sexiness more than make up for that. The best thing you can say about it is there have been worse horror flicks but few of them check off as many bad movie boxes as this one does. Blast the audience with complex imagery to try and trick them into thinking the story is way more interesting than it truly is?
Not understanding its own story? The version recreates a scene from the original that was a shocking reveal to the audience in The scene is not only as unshocking and unrevealing as possible, it literally serves no purpose. Trying to plan for a franchise rather than making a good movie?
The film pathetically tries to create its own horror villain, like Jason from Friday the 13th or Freddy Kruger from the Nightmare on Elm Street films. Have no clue how human beings actually feel about things? The remake attempts to make the audience sympathize with a little girl ghost. Except the remake also has a scene where the little girl ghost tries to kill a living girl so she can have a playmate in the afterlife. Yes, because nothing screams sympathetic like selfishly murdering children.
Not understanding its own story again? In , the evil force in the house attempted to drive George Lutz into violent madness. Those are two different things that change what the story means and how the audience will react to the character of George. Using jump scares without the foggiest notion of how jump scares should be used?
Jump scares work because they provoke the startle reaction in normal human beings. The more you use jump scares, however, the less effective they become until the only emotions they provoke are boredom and disgust.
In both films, a teenage babysitter gets trapped in a closet and terrorized by the supernatural.
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