Aka Amityville: Mt. Misery Road; aka Mt. Misery Road
After the credits are shown on a static shot of a street sign, we get a few paragraphs of text about Mt. Misery Road which is considered cursed. Then we abruptly segue to Florida where a middle aged man named Charlie drives a sports car and and picks up his mail. We watch him open his mail in real time. Doing things in real time is a theme in this film.
Charlie is dating Buzi, a foreign woman half his age. Buzi is pronounced boojee. When I saw the name Buzi in the credits, I thought it must be an animal. Charlie shoots tons of footage of trophy girlfriend Buzi. The footage smacks of someone who is always saying, “Hey guys, look who I’m dating, huh? Huh?”
When a friend sends photos of orbs taken at Mt. Misery Road, Charlie and Buzi go online and do research on the subject. They’re ghost enthusiasts and are super excited to go on vacation to New York to visit Mt. Misery Road. We watch in real time as they google Mt. Misery and read some web sites.
They make an appointment with a local historian and are excited - another theme of the film - to talk to him about the legend, his books, and various creatures that are said to prowl the woods. When they meet, the historian tells them in no uncertain terms he has no interest in discussing his book or the legend. He’s only there to warn them not to go since a high percentage of people disappear in the woods. No matter what the guy says, Charlie ups his irritation quotient as he keeps asking about ghosts, creatures, the legend, and ignoring any warnings about his own safety.
Charlie is disappointed in the historians negativity about their trip, but decides to go anyway. After all, they’ve traveled all the way from Florida and put in too much time and money. I have no idea how much time Charlie put into this, but it can’t be that much unless he’s counting the time they spent googling Mt. Misery. It should be pretty simple since they already know where they want to go and what they want to do.
The rest of the film is the two of them driving to Mt. Misery and walking through the woods. They marvel at the slightest things. Ooo it’s a small patch of snow. Ooo it’s a ravine! Ooo it’s a cross hanging from a tree. Ooo it’s cement so it must be the foundation of the old asylum. Ooo there’s more cement so that must be the entrance. I guess they should get credit for their positive attitudes since they’re excited at everything they see and think everything is amazing.
This is basically a two person vanity project. I’d guess ninety five percent of the credits are Charlie and Buzi, who are married in real life. I’m not sure why they opted to be dating in the movie. There doesn’t seem to be any script and most of the film is padding. It was filmed on a cell phone so good for them, I guess, since they didn’t invest a lot of money into this I’m not sure if Buzi was nervous because she laughs all the time, even though nothing funny is going on. Also not sure why they opted to have a scene where Buzi gets up in the middle of the night and pees in the dark with the door open. No one needs to see that or the bedroom scene.
The movie has absolutely nothing to do with Amityville, and uses the name to sucker people into watching it. Because who would watch this otherwise, except family and friends of the protagonists? I’m contributing to this trend of filmmakers slapping Amityville on their movies to get views since I’m randomly watching anything with the Amityville name in it. Unlike some people who innocently wander in expecting the Amityville house, I knew what I was getting. So maybe that makes me the bigger fool since I’m aware it will be awful if the only way to sell it is add Amityville to the title.
Cringeworthy dialogue:
Charlie - I don’t know. He was very negative about us going to Mt. Misery…. We came all the way from Florida to make this happen so let’s do this.
This place looks very, very spooky. (Said about an old house which had a neatly mowed lawn and didn’t look spooky at all)
There’s an old timer on a horse. Isn’t that cool, Buzi?
That looks like the front entrance or something. (Said about a pile of broken cement.)
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| The same two names over and over |
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| The amazing ravine. Wait until they find out these are everywhere in the northern states |
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| Did they direct him to sit under a light? Yikes! |
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| The orb photos that got them excited to go on this adventure |
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| Chuck and Buzi |
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| A pile of broken cement. That must be the entrance. |
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| Buzi is amazed by the snow. Also she seems to be wearing fuzzy pajama pants for a hike into the woods, which is just odd. |
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