Amityville Hex

I like horror movies, been watching them for the last 68 years or so. Some great, some okay, others lousy with some redeeming value, at some point. Today this mess is the second I try to review. Twice today, I have wished for a rating of zero. Unfortunately IMDb doesn't have that as a non-rating option due to total garbage. I thought the other was horrible (in a very bad way), this thing is even worse. Maybe it has to do with me being older than the people who made this two pieces of c (oh wait, I don't think I am allowed to say that) grandparent's. Why do people waste money buying movie camaras to do this to the viewers.

In an endless wave of F grade horror movies riding the coat tails of Amityville franchise fame, Amityville Hex is the worse variation yet. As other viewers have stated, it really should be rated 0 stars. I would give it negative stars if I could.

Everything about the production was haphazard. It lacked originality and imagination. It was redundant and silly especially with the kills and special effects.

The premise of a killer hex/curse gone viral has been done so many times. Movies like the Ring, Sinister, Unfriended, Stay Alive cleverly use cursed media as a trope. While It Follows, Smile and The Grudge brought a fresh take to the genre while delightfully filling the viewer with delight and utter despair at the same time. This movie gives none of that. Save your brain cells and don't bother watching!

Not because you fear the Amityvile curse will consume you, but because you'll be consumed with regret!

This film essentially begins with several vloggers seeking to discredit a supposed curse known as the Amityville Hex which has recently become an on-line viral sensation. To do that, each of them get in front of a camera and, after reading the script which allegedly triggers the curse, promise to share their experiences with their viewers for the next couple of weeks. Although most of them are initially quite skeptical of the hex, their later videos show a much different perspective as each of them begin to experience horrific nightmares and hallucinations which begin to affect their mental and emotional well-being. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that this film easily ranks as one of the worst Amityville movies ever made, due in large part to the repetitious plot and the exceedingly bad acting. It was just plain awful. So bad in fact, that I wouldn't be surprised if some viewers thought about reading the Amityville hex just to alleviate their own personal anguish brought on from watching this movie. Be that as it may, I don't recommend this movie, and I have rated it accordingly.

I have seen a bunch of these movies that put Amityville in the title to get suckers like me to watch them. I have seen Amityville Karen. I have seen Amityville in the Hood. I have seen all three of Mark Polonia's movies starring Jeff Kirkendall as Father Benna: Noah's Shark, Amityville Exorcism and Amityville in Space. So far, this is the worst of the bunch. It's doesn't even have the funny bad entertainment value of some of the others. First, we get a montage of various vloggers reading this corny Anityville Hex. I guess it's some sort of viral challenge. The rest of the movie is cutting back forth between these characters as they spout nonsense at the camera or do various stupid things very slowly. The acting is terrible even for a low budget movie. There's no story. It just meanders along until it falls on its face and comes to a stop. There's 1 hour and 48 minutes of this tedious crap.

Director Tony Newton dumps these lazy, boring, trash 'films' and documentaries out that all are the same - various YouTubers or random horror fans are recorded on Skype then placed haphazardly together with little care how to even remotely make a cohesive narrative.

This time it involves all these random people reading the "Amityville Hex" then talking nonstop about how they feel bad before they become possessed. This means either drawing '666' in sharpie on your face, the tik tok strobe effect, crying, or poisoning an extremely annoying guy talking in a whiny voice.

Absolutely horrid. There was no care put into this, it was simply made to make a few hundred bucks off people with the same compulsion as me to watch every one of these Amityville abominations.

Ps, Shawn C Phillips really had some demons to exorcise in his rant to his viewers.