Sunday, September 10, 2023

Amityville Island (2020)

Kelly Jo stops at a yard sale and buys everything.  She loads the clothing into a box without looking at the condition, style or sizes.  She says she can’t be picky since she’s a single mom with four kids, but maybe she should check to see if it’s actually children’s clothing. Because some of that stuff looks huge.

When she gets home, she unpacks the box and is possessed by a doll full of evil. Then she murders her children and is sentenced to death. 

The warden has a fight club that he live streams to paying customers. Women fight in a utility corridor under the prison. The winner goes back to her cell and the loser is sent away. So no one notices there are women disappearing from the prison? 

Kelly Jo and her opponent Renata make the warden angry and are both sent to the island. Here they are injected with a tracking device. Not only doe it track their location if they try to run away, but it can also can shock them or release poison when remotely activated.

A doctor on the island is doing experiments which don’t seem to be going well since there are a couple of zombies walking the property.  The most interesting one has a bad wig and you can see where they forgot to tuck the bottom of his mask into his shirt.

This is not enjoyable in anyway. It’s tedious and hard to get through.  Why did I keep watching this? It made Amityville Exorcism look better by comparison, and that wasn’t good either. I was lured in by watching Polonia’s previous movie Amityville in Space which was ridiculous and amusing.  But maybe I’ll learn a lesson from these last two that it’s not worth it.

Why would the realtor handle a yard sale? How does an evil spirt jump from a person into a bear? Why was the shark the focus of the cover when it’s only in the movie for maybe a minute? How did the shark get possessed? Did I miss it or was it never explained? Does the reporter do anything other than sit at his kitchen table drinking and calling the prison wanting to interview Kelly Jo?

Ridiculous dialogue

Kelly Jo: Wish I knew this house was for sale before I moved here.
Realtor: Is that supposed to be a joke?

Indisposed? She’s been on death row for over a year. What could she possibly be doing?

At least the house has Amityville windows
The real estate agent doing a yard sale. Also there was
snow in the shot of the house, but no snow here
Reusing the costume from Amityville Exorcism
Glowing eyes is never a good sign
The warden and his crack staff at the prison fight club
I think the board falling on his neck was an accident since it
happened when he did a roll and kicked the shelf.
It looks like heavy plywood that would have hurt..
Well apparently spirits can transfer from humans to bears.
The zombie with normal hands.  Check out the edge of his mask.
The Mylar background was also used in Amityville in Space


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