SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Niki Kefala Rebooting the franchise, "Amityville: The Awakening" does not take a fresh look at the haunted house that terrified a generation. The film does not escape the classic recipes of the genre and it is not a very enjoyable B-movie horror. Horror fans can probably give it a single viewing but if you aren't a fan of the genre, you could skip this one. Instead of tension and thrills, there's just a bunch of cliché and an overwhelming sense of déjà vu. "The Awakening" often feels as if it's starting all over again from scene to scene with Belle Thorne -she is a good actress but this movie was a bad choice- to wanders one shadowy corridor after another. Unfortunately the director and screenwriter Franck Khalfoun he has no clever ideas to justify the very obvious incidents.

dilsonbelper Watch the Original dont bother with this rubbish, what can I say from the very start to the very end this picture was AWFUL! Even if I put spoilers in its so predictable it wouldn't matter.

SnoopyStyle This opens with the infamous murders at the iconic address. It's 40 years later and a new family is moving in. Single mom Joan (Jennifer Jason Leigh) has three children; frustrated Belle (Bella Thorne), youngest Juliet (Mckenna Grace), and comatose James (Cameron Monaghan).Like James, this franchise is on life support. Anybody hoping for a resurgence may need to do a deal with the devil. There is nothing overtly wrong with this movie other than the fact that nothing original happens. There are jump scares but none of them are inventive or scary. There is only one moment that I found compelling. I love James talking through the computer and asking Belle to kill him. It's one of the few character connections in the movie. None of the new friends are memorable. The mother could have done more. This is a forgettable entry in a dead franchise.

fjk1138-731-161881 What happens when you expect nothing from a movie, but then get even less than that? Well...you get a piece of crap like this.This is barely an attempt at horror, with barely any scares, and it drips the blood of the series' nostalgia more than anything else. The plot is severely weak, and it's worsened by the fact that it pulls the other movies into the story. No, I don't mean just by referencing the events, I mean they literally reference three of the movies here - one of the characters holds up DVDs of Amityville 1, 2, and the remake and suggests they watch them at 3:15 am. Huh? What?? That is the point where they lost me, and the stupid story took a deep six right down the well to hell right then and there. Speaking of which, that comes into play here yet again (people who have owned the real house have to be just shaking their heads by now) and hey guess what? That's the source of the evil again! Wow, didn't see that coming.The acting is pretty meh, and all I can assume is the actors all had some bills to pay to even participate here. The house looks too neat, new, and clean to have any menace to it. It's also completely physically positioned incorrectly, made worse by the fact that they show photos at the start of the movie of the actual house where you can clearly see how close the neighbors are. And to think that all the other supposed occupants wouldn't have pitched that stupid "high hopes" sign into the trash is completely pathetic. The musical score, while mot bad for what it is, is no match for the creepy, squeaky strings and children's voices that Lalo Schifrin made work far more effectively almost 40 years ago now.There is basically no point to this movie. It's nothing you haven't seen before, quite literally, and it's not worth your time. Don't bother, and I hope the studios all don't bother with future installments either.