Had a Choice between Year of the Yao and this one...... Special effects are good, the story pretty much the same as the original however a few more things explained..... I liked how they were able to make an exact duplicate of the original home which till this day is pretty freaky.... Pretty packed from what i gathered look like alittle over 80 people were denied from coming in..... B+...for story line A- for special effects I will not give any spoilers away but if you enjoy decent horror flicks I suggest this one..... Overall-------B-
I will probably skip. I've already seen this movie, got scared, so why see it again. I'm not quite ready for to see again. Will wait for cable. Being on the road I caught up on my movies tho'. Lemony Snickets: C+ Mildly amusing, but didn't grab me. The baby wasn't making me laugh either. Visually interesting. Sideways B-: Interesting flick, some funny moments like when he gets the crap beat out of him, and when he sleeps with the fat chick. But overall, I think I would have liked a sadder ending. Seemed a little far fetched in the romance portion of the movie, but I liked the sadness and friendship of the chracters. That seemed pretty real to me. Funny too. National Treasure: C+ Good action, mildy interesting, but seems like one long chase and for what. Not much. No big payoff. But I was able to blow some time with this movie so I kinda liked that aspect of it. Lacking in several fundamental areas, but still, not all bad.
Oh yeah one thing is the only thing I was dissapointed about was they did not show nor explain the red room........ Infact they went into a completely different direction....
I saw this last night, I don't usually go to horror movies so it was my first time sitting in a theater where girls were screaming their heads off at the scary parts. Ryan Reynolds was still really cut from when he made Blade Trinity and when he showed up on screen shirtless, every girl that was sitting near me would either whistle or make remarks about wanting to jump his bones, it was hilarious. I've never seen the original movie or read the book, so I don't know how they compare. I know they makers of this movie said they followed the book more than the true story. I know George Lutz is angry about this movie because they say it defames him, I can see why he'd say that. If you've read the book or seen the original movie, you know Lutz is supposed to get possessed and try to kill his family. I've read an interview about what happened and he never mentions that, but he doesn't really talk about the night in question at all. There's also plenty of evidence and inconsistencies that point to the whole thing being a hoax. I don't know how the original got it's scares, but it was very obvious that this new movie was influenced by the Japanese style of horror. Basically, when you least expect it, a ghost appears and is either just standing there looking creepy or throwing up or being grabbed by other ghostly hands. The Jodie imaginary friend was supposed to be a boy or a pig or something in the others, here it's the youngest daughter of the DeFeos. SPOILER I've heard about this Red Room, where occult stuff was supposed to have happened, here they focus on the Native American sanitarium thing. A crazy guy, Reverend Ketchem who tortured native americans in a secret basement under the house and then committed suicide there. END SPOILER I don't know how to grade the movie, some good scares, but I scare kind of easy. Mind you, I don't jump out of my chair or flinch or anything, it's more like my heart skips a beat or something. After the first couple of scares though, you immediately know when they are coming, they just don't mix it up enough and when you know it's coming, you feel more satisfied that you predicted it instead of getting a fright, which is the whole point of the movie. They also play out the "sudden turn and somebody is right there" move. Oh, before I forget, there's a sexy babysitter named Lisa. I don't think she was in the first, but I'm glad she was in this one. She smokes pot and teases the oldest son by lying in his bed with her barely there shirt. She also scares him by telling the story of the DeFeos and says she was their babysitter as well. She was a bad sitter though and it turns out to be unfortunate for her. She's played by Rachel Nichols, not the ESPN one.
I saw it last night, except for about 10 minutes of it, (from Day1 after the sex scene until the scene in the kitchen with the little shadow running around...damn spicy church's chicken messed me up). I liked it a lot. I only remember bits and pieces of the original, but I walked out of this movie thinking, "Finally, a decent horror flick" Did some research on the whole Amityville thing and was dissapointed due to what I found on the "true" aspect of this story...
dude....your Rockets fan card is officially revoked. I guess Hollywood has run out of Japanese horror flicks to rip off, so they have to rip off old American horror flicks...
Yeah I enjoyed this movie, usually most horror movies now are rated pg-13. This one was rated R, so I thought it was pretty good.
Well, the phrase "based on a true story" has been used without merit for decades to help promote movies. Texas Chainsaw Massacre, anybody?
I like how for that new movie, Domino, they are saying: Based on a true story sort of. . . Since they have taken some liberties withe the true story of Domino Harvey, the former model turned bounty hunter.
Some cousins of my grandmother's lived in Amityville for over 50 years, and repeatedly said the story was bull. Thanks for posting this.
This is half of the appeal of this movie for me! Granted, I've never seen Amityville Horror, and I do want to see it, Ryan Reynolds is going to get me in the movie theater - as opposed to waiting to rent it.
