Amityville in the Hood

First off yes this is a real film. Well kinda. About a third of this film is footage from other Amityville films. Second this film is so damn awful it makes Leprechaun in the Hood look like an epic. I mean there is nothing remotely good in this film.

Jesus Christ! So it appears any mook can just take the Amityville name and slap it on to any piece of garbage they like.

Any time I see the word "Amityville" I know it is a movie that should be avoided like the plague.

After a drug deal gone wrong, a gangster learns that his associates have stolen a crop of strained marijuana taken from the location of numerous murders years earlier and has infected the streets causing a wave of violence to be unleashed and forcing a detective to find a way of stopping it.

This one managed to be a bit better than expected. Among the better features here comes from the strong central storyline about the new cursed item escaping Amityville and arriving in the outside community. The means of the tainted drug escaping through the means of a gangster's turf war and getting sold on the streets behind the main gangster's back starts a frantic search for the mystical weed. On top of that, the resulting police investigation into the series of murders taking place there all combine together for a solid enough pretense of the main storyline here. As well, there are several halfway decent action scenes that come about here to provide some excitement to this. The opening gangland ambush and the various interactions between the gangster boss and his assistant offer up a decent enough setup to generate an idea of what's happening with the cursed strain getting loose in the community. Being shorter sequences, the longer battles here involving the possessed gang member snap and going crazy on the other gang members or the encounters following that involving the possessed individuals give off some longer scenes that are cheesy fun in this style which holds this one up. This one does have a few issues with it. One of the biggest factors here is a confusing setup to introduce the private investigator into the somewhat backward storyline. Between a call involving officers in different sections of the country, the wrong police officer reveals crucial information to the other when he couldn't have known about it due to geographical and time disparities, coming off rather awkward. There's also a series of energy-draining and momentum-stopping scenes showing off the low-budget and padding found here with the flashbacks to different films and music video montages keeping the action down. These factors end up being the main drawbacks here.

Rated Unrated/R: Extreme Graphic Language, Violence, and drug use.

CGI 1/10 In the beginning something gets shot through the window of the Amityville house's window, and it looks like a 30x30 pixel sprite. The blood splatter is so wrong it looks like they spit up a handkerchief. The smoke CGI looks like they took it from a 3dxmax smoke tutorial.

Sound 3/10 Bad echoes. It's clear the sound person has the shotgun mics pointed at the wrong people at some points.

Sound effects 3/10 But just wrong. How do you get the gunshot sound so wrong? The only sound that was right was the Siri sound.

Lighting 1/10 The only scenes that are lit well are the ones filmed outside in daylight. Some scenes have harsh red lights for no reason except maybe a lame attempt to portray evil.

Writing 3/10 I've met sailors who swear less than some of the characters. I'm not to if it was writing or editing but one scene has a lady give birth to a daemon baby, then later the same still pregnant lady gets murdered.

The music that isn't stock is painful and repetitive. They inserted a needless driving scene just so they could add a very bad rap song.

Sure, I wasn't expecting this 2021 horror movie titled "Amityville in the Hood" to actually have a snowballs chance in Hell of being good, but I still sat down to watch it. Why? Well, because I believe in giving a movie a fair chance. And who knew, maybe writers Jerimiah Douglas and Dustin Ferguson had something up their sleeves.

But no, there was nothing there, and "Amityville in the Hood" was every bit as pointless and ridiculous as I had initially expecting it to be, and then some. It is hard to comprehend why movies like this actually come into existence. I mean, the storyline and concept in this movie was just downright horrible and laughable.

And as for "Amityville in the Hood" being a horror movie, well that might be stretching the term horror quite a bit. Well, unless you consider the lack of a proper script as horror, the total absence of acting talent as horror, or the whole ludicrous concept that is "Amityville in the Hood" as being horror.

Visually then "Amityville in the Hood" was bland, so horribly, horribly bland. The special effects were special alright. And I don't mean that in a good way. It is so bad that it has to be seen and heard to be believed.

The acting performances in "Amityville in the Hood" were rigid, wooden and amateurish. At least I hope the actors and actresses that performed in the movie were having fun making this. I wasn't familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list, and that is usually something that works in favor of a movie. But with "Amityville in the Hood", not so much. Because the actors and actresses virtually had nothing to work with here.

If you enjoy horror movies, just slither on to the next one in line, because "Amityville in the Hood" simply isn't worth squandering your time, money or effort on.

My rating of director Dustin Ferguson's 2021 horror movie "Amityville in the Hood" lands on a staggering one out of ten stars.