The only thing worse, in my opinion, than crappy horror movies are the rude, immature comments made by certain people in community message forums. For the record, I have yet to see the new Amityville Horror flick and to be honest I cant wait to see it. I own the book and I get scared every single time I read it, and I own the classic 1979 version on DVD (although by todays standards it is regarded ad highly cheesy). And did it occur to anyone that certain people are scared by certain things? Im willing to bet I might jump a few times during this movie, but it wont make me poo my pants or anything. The movies that made me sleep with my lights on are The Changeling, Halloween, and Night of the Living Dead.......... and Im only 25! What scares me might make you laugh and giggle, and vice versa. So why dont we all just make our own little reviews and not escalate to hostility? Hmm? So what can anyone tell me about the SFX, score, and the solidity of the plot??
THANK YOU! Omg yea, Plenty of parts either made jump or squeal! <Mostly jump>. I think the VERY first part I jumped at was when
Spoiler:that freaked me the f*** out. But I went with two of my other girl friends and they loved it too! 😄 Im actually debating on going back and seeing it again 😄
George and Cathy were *ahem* Getting it on, and Jodie was at the side of the bed and she looked like she had hung herself...
Iv'e never seen it. I v'e read the book and I'll be honest it's one of the most haunting books I've ever read. The original movie was cool...but not great. When they showed Jodie they just showed you a giant face of a pig looking out the window that seemed to be taken from some other film and pasted into the window. I hear Micheal Bay is behind the remake and I can't help to become bitter at this, since in my opinion he botched it up as he seems to do with all of his empty headed projects or "money makers". The Chainsaw Massacre remake was just embarrasing to watch. The script seemed to be tossed away as I was forced to watch all the actors attempt to improv the scenes( horribly). The score was loud and present in scenes that didn't even require it, which is typical of a composer when challenge to be inspired and creative in a film where neither elements exist. Acompanied with those annoying quick mtv cuts shows that the old art of pacing and building to a scare are truly dead. I hope to god Amityville gives me a different view, although the previews haven't been very promising.
Im dying to read the novel. I actually liked the originals too, the 2nd one was my favorite of all! Well I see where you're coming from with the whole "TCM REMAKE" and how he was the one who did that all, and now he did T.A.H, but Im a little confused 😕 on if they were making this 2005 version as a remake or not. Im pretty sure they werent! They based it on years and years after where the family moves in, and they figure out that the house was previously owned by the dude who murdered his whole family and then its on from there.
Well, I just got back from the theater from viewing The Amityville Horror, and I'd like to comment that the movie neither sucked or ruled. In my opinion, it was average. The script was about 50% faithful to Jay Anson's book, and some of the jucier parts I was hoping to see were not in the movie (Jody's red eyes in the window, the marching band music, the demons tormenting the catholic priest, etc, etc). Michael Bay is still a whore who deserves to be kicked square in the nuts after the embarrassment that was the remake of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Since my name is neither Ebert or Roeper, Im not going to go in to a big long spiel kind of review, but I will say that I enjoyed the movie, but I still prefer the book 100% over. And who knows, maybe I'll buy it on DVD. Maybe. 😉