The Amityville Moon

Seriously, what a waste of time!? Lionsgate used to be a sign of quality. This is so sad that its making low budget cheap movies. Though there are some good actors, the productions is so bad.

I'm not sure why all the hate on this one. Yes, it's clearly a B-Rate / C-Rate movie, the acting is not great by any means, and the lighting is pretty dim but for what it is, it's pretty good. They took care, on a very small budget mind you, with limited special effects and put their effort into making a decent werewolf costume and transformation. For a B-Rate, it's a pretty good attempt I'd say. I think for what it is, they did a really good job at working with what they had. Know what it is when you go into it. It's a B movie made for the love of werewolf movies! For those folks like me who hunt for werewolf movies, I thought this was one of the better B attempts out there as far as script, special effects, and choreography were concerned. Solid effort!

There are actually a few good actors in this film that were credible in their roles, but as a whole I wouldn't waste time on this.

The Amityville Moon has little to do with the Amityville series except for possibly taking place in that town though we don't see the house or anything nor are there any cursed/haunted objects from it. It's about a halfway house for ex-drug addict junkies with a werewolf stalking and killing them. Much of the film is about these former needle-freaks and seeing as I don't understand addiction nor do I have any empathy these parts fell flat on me. Some nudity or lesbian shenanigans would have livened the movie up. Apparently this is made by some religious nut who is okay with mild swearing but has his tough biker guys say "freakin" and "screw". The acting is intensely mediocre especially that of the main girl. The whole film is shot in a drab and colorless way. There's some bloody werewolf attacks including a woman who has her face clawed off. The werewolf transformation scene is pretty good though nowhere near Baker/Bottin level but at least it was all practical FX. The werewolf suit is pretty good as well though shown sparingly. The sadly too brief werewolf scenes save this from being completely dull. Another very mediocre Walmart horror to add to the pile.

This film essentially begins with two young women named "Karla" (Kelsey Zukowski) and "Alyssa" (Alex Rinehart) attempting to escape one night from a rehabilitation center located in Amityville, New York. Although Alyssa manages to crawl out through a window, once outside she turns and, to her horror, watches as some huge beast attacks Karla and rips her to shreds. The scene then shifts to a police officer by the name of "Detective Kimball" (Trey McCurley) being told that these same young women have been reported missing and that his assignment is to track them down and return to the rehabilitation center which they had been remanded to by the court system. At first, he considers this to be a rather routine assignment--but what he doesn't know is that this isn't the first time that a young woman has gone missing from this particular rehab center--and the disappearances always occur on a full moon. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that this was a rather dull horror film due in large part to the lack of action and suspense. Likewise, the script could have used some improvement as well. That being said, although I don't consider this to be a terribly bad horror film necessarily, it isn't something I would honestly recommend, and I have rated it accordingly. Below average.