The Amityville Terror

I read some of the reviews going into the movie. But I still decided to watch. Everyone has different tastes after all.......

Except for this little gem. I don't think anyone could sit thru this movie (if they managed to make it to the end) and say WOW that was great. Heck they wouldn't even say it wasn't that bad.

There are absolutely NO redeeming qualities in this movie. The acting. The special effects. The plot. The script. All were so bad that all you wish is to go back in time to the video store and when you are about to pick this movie the wall of DVDs crash down knocking you out for a few hours. Seriously you would enjoy that more.

If you are, like me, thinking surely these people jest. Go ahead. Watch it. Then come back here and write how you wish you would have listened.

This film essentially begins with a man by the name of "Todd Jacobson" (Kaiwi Lyman) driving his wife "Jessica Jacobson" (Kim Nielsen) and their teenage daughter "Hailey Jacobson" (Nicole Tompkins) to the town of Amityville, New York where Todd's sister "Shea Jacobson" (Amanda Barton) has just bought a house where they all can live. Although the house is quite large, it becomes immediately apparent that Hailey and Shea have their differences and that it may not be big enough for the two of them to live together amicably. So much so that, after a rather loud argument between them, Hailey decides that she would rather attend her new high school a bit early just to get out of the house. Unfortunately, that isn't the only thing troubling Hailey as she soon encounters several people at her new high school who seemed to have developed an intense dislike for her--and that is just the beginning of her troubles. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that this film definitely had possibilities but the general lack of character development, coupled with a rather weak ending, left me somewhat disappointed overall. That being said, while I don't consider this to be a terribly bad film necessarily, the faults just mentioned were too obvious to be ignored, and I have rated it accordingly. Below average.

First, despite the title this film has nothing to do with anything remotely Amityville. The effects were so poor. Come on folks, CG software is cheap and there are plenty of out of work effects people that could have done better with freeware. Of course there is always the story line. Except in this movie. Did these people make this up on the fly? So with no effects, no story line and no script how could you expect anything more? THere is always a place for mindless sex and violence on the screen, but here you won't find mindless, just useless. I must admit I am something of an Amityville Horror snob. I owned my first home in Nassau SHores only 1 mile from the actual Amityville Horror house. Yup, there really is a house that the first movie was based on. It was on a side street and the traffic got so bad the town of Amityville had to post no parking signs for a couple of blocks and post cops to keep the traffic moving. Well, the house in this movie was probably owed by the producer and he got a write off to use it for the film. I think that's the best thing that could have ever come form this piece of trash. To sum it all up.... don't waste your time on this treasure.

man,this thing was awful.brutally awful.bad acting.bad writing.bad everything.it was not realistic.the characters were not believable in the slightest.this film uses the tag line "based on true events".that is such a cliché nowadays and means absolutely nothing.it is simply a marketing ploy to lure consumers in.there's really not a lot of positive things I can say for this piece of work.i just found the whole thing ridiculous and tedious.of course that's subjective.others may find this to be good movie.i did see a positive review on this site.the current rating of this movie on this site is 3.3/10.but for me,Amityville Terror is a 2/10

Oh Dear and in the very beginning our Faith is gutted and strung up!!! Sorry Faith!!!

But, cut to the new couple which is of course moving into this House....and their daughter, and the alchoholic sister!!!

+1 Star for a couple of scenes of T&A. That was good.

-1 Star for the smoking in the bathroom and apparently the teacher couldn't smell it when she walked in, derrrrrr.......

The movie just gets worse and worse. It's really hard to put all the bad into anything shorter than a book. I did make it to the end, so this one can end with a 2/10.