Amityville Vampire

Of course the feature has "Indie Film" written all over it, but I am not inclined to slam such an honest effort by people who are genuinely trying to entertain. The title attempts to link the film to the "real world" Amityville Horror story of the late 1970's simply to evoke the name and draw in an immediate market/audience. A little blood and a little skin are part of the bait for potential audiences, although neither are too extreme. The most convincing performance was probably the Paco character, one of three murderer/rapist thugs in the final vignette. He had some genuine menace and presence to him. This vampire sucks, not the neck, but the name of 40+-year-old classics but forgive it that and watch without expecting to see "Citizen Kane".

I've seen just about every Amityville movie (20+) and this one of the worst. Like the majority of the "Amityville" movies, this has virtually nothing to do with the Amityville house.. there's just a short throwaway scene at the beginning of the film that references it. And that's fine, I've come to expect that from Amityville movies.. but that aside this film is not worth watching at all. It's bad, and not the fun kind of bad, the boring kind where you start looking around the room while it's on because the discoloured spot on your wall is more interesting. The acting is terrible, cinematography was awkward and gross, sound was all over the place, the writing was tedious at best. Don't waste your time with "Amityville Vampire", it's virtually unwatchable; it will literally repel your attention.

This is the worst Amityville film ever. It's a new low, even for bad films, B class movies and cheap movies. Pure garbage. Don't waste ypour time with this piece of crap.

Needless to say that my expectations for this 2021 movie titled "Amityville Vampire" weren't exactly high or anything, as I sat down to watch the movie without ever having heard of it beforehand. But given the endless tirade of one bad Amityville movie after another, of course I didn't think this would be any better.

But I do believe in giving a movie a fair chance, and thus I opted to sit down to watch "Amityville Vampire" from writers Carlos Perez and Tim Vigil.

Of course this movie was bad. Of course it was. Had I expected otherwise? No, not really. But there was an odd, although unlikely, chance that the movie would prove to break the streak of the one-bad-Amityville-movie-after-another streak, right? Sure, but "Amityville Vampire" was not the movie that would break that streak.

I must admit that I was initially lured in by the movie's cover and also the word Amityville, on the odd chance that the movie would prove to be anything even remotely close to what the original 1979 "The Amityville Horror" movie. The movie's cover was interesting to me, but ultimately it was actually the best thing about the entire ordeal.

The storyline told in "Amityville Horror" was about as appealing and well-written as something you'd find in an elementary school term paper. Yeah, so don't go expecting a grand cinematic masterpiece here.

The acting in the movie was wooden and rigid, with most actors and actresses putting on barely passable performances. Yeah, it had that particularly amateurish feel to it throughout the entire movie. But then again, you have an actress named Jin N. Tonic to star in the movie, so go figure...

Visually then "Amityville Vampire" was nothing to write home about. Sure, the practical and special effects served their purposes, but you will not find yourself in for a spectacle of grand effects here.

This is by no means a movie that I would recommend you waste your time, money or effort on. Some of us did so you don't have to.

My rating of director Tim Vigil's 2021 movie lands on a very generous two out of ten stars.

This film begins in the aftermath of the famous murders that took place in Amityville, New York with a cleaning crew trying to sanitize the house to make it livable again. While doing this, one of the workers accidentally ingests some blood from one of the walls and immediately turns into a ravenous vampire. After killing her colleagues, the scene then shifts to an office worker by the name of "Gloria" (Veronica Farren) staying behind to catch up on a little work. While there she meets a woman named "Lillith" (Jin N Tonic) who happens to be the reclusive owner of the company who the workers only see on rare occasions. While talking with one another, Lillith invites Gloria to her cabin the next day for a Thanksgiving dinner. Not having anything else to do, Gloria accepts Lillith's invitation. What she doesn't realize, however, is that the place she is going to has a history of strange and violent events which seem to be increasing in frequency. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that this movie incorporated several short stories which--except for the opening scene--were all tied together at the end. So, it was an anthology of sorts, with the previously mentioned opening scene possibly existing for the sole purpose of capitalizing on the Amityville mystique. At least, that is how it seemed to me. And while I appreciated the attempted connection to the series, it still felt more like a bait-and-switch than any actual linkage. But it's possible that I might have missed something during the course of the film. As far as the acting was concerned, I thought that both Miranda Melhado (as "Fran") and Vernoica Farren put in solid performances overall--especially considering the rather mediocre plot they had to work with. Be that as it may, while I certainly don't consider this to be a good horror film by any means, it wasn't quite as bad as some of the other films in the Amityville series, and I have rated it accordingly. Below average.