Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Amityville Terror (2016)


 It’s an Amityville extravaganza!  Teen girl Haley and her family move in with her aunt in a huge house that they’re renting at a bargain price in Amityville.  Always be wary of the bargain rental. I once looked at a huge apartment that was super cheap and the guy revealed that while technically he was the owner, he was being sued by someone else who claimed ownership. He was renting it cheap because whoever took the apartment may need to move suddenly if the lawsuit didn’t go his way. Plus it had some obvious livability problems that he assured me would be fixed before I moved in.  Needless to say I passed on that bargain.

Haley rides a dirtbike and hates they move to the smallest town ever that has nothing but trees. She quickly finds a party in the woods where the mean girls treat her like crap and one of the guys is friendly. Unfortunately that guy is boyfriend of the meanest girl so that’s not going to go well.

Her aunt has been sober for a while but is starting to act weird. The family wonders if she’s on drugs again. Nope, its just the evil in the house that is causing her to act super creepy and murdery.  Then dad start to act strange and Haley begins to wonder if the stories the mean girls have told her about their house are true.

Compared to Amityville Toybox or Amityville Clownhouse, this is competent.  But it’s nothing new and doesn’t take place in the same Amityville as the original. So again, we’ve got a possession film that uses Amityville to sell itself.  If you have to use another movies recognition factor to get someone to watch your own movie, you’re doing something wrong.

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