The Amityville Terror

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.

Why? That is the question. Why? I am a huge follower of anything relating to the Amityville Haunting case, especially 112 Ocean Ave. This movie has NO RELEVANCE whatsoever to this topic. It seems that they added the name Amityville into the title to encourage people to watch. I wouldn't bother! I bet the Defeo and Lutz families are turning over in the grave at this awful movie. Poor acting Poor story lines Poor everything. If you are looking for a scary, jumpy haunting movie, them I am afraid this is not what you'll be looking for. I was very excited when I sat in the movie theatre seat, coffee and popcorn all ready. The curtains opened, the lights went down, and the hairs on my neck stood tall. Fast forward half hour, and people around me were not taking any notice, nodding off to sleep, some even yawning.

A new family moves into the infamous house which doesn't look anything like the original house ( I guess it did burn down a few times). It doesn't take long for the mayhem to start and we get to see the crappy CGI. Compared to the last couple of Amityville outings like Amityville Playhouse (2015) and Amityville Death House (2015) this one is a masterpiece which isn't saying much. There is a couple different spins in the story and way more nudity and violence than the Amityville house is used to.

I thinks its best to stay away from Amityville films for a bit. I say that but as soon as something like Amityville Zombies comes out I'll probably watch it.

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.

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.