Amityville: The Awakening 2017

Every house has a history. This one has a legend.

5.4 / 10   982 vote(s)
PG-13
Thriller Horror

Belle, her little sister, and her comatose twin brother move into a new house with their single mother Joan in order to save money to help pay for her brother's expensive healthcare. But when strange phenomena begin to occur in the house including the miraculous recovery of her brother, Belle begins to suspect her Mother isn't telling her everything and soon realizes they just moved into the infamous Amityville house.

Release Date 2017-06-30
Runtime 1h 27m
Directors Franck Khalfoun, Steven Poster
Producers Harvey Weinstein, Jason Blum, Bob Weinstein, Steve Whitney, Jeanette Volturno, Alix Taylor, Matthew Stein, Matthew Signer, Couper Samuelson, Jeff Rice, Mark Moran, Paul Mason, Keith Levine, Avi Lerner, Casey La Scala, Steve B. Harris, David Glasser, George Furla, Ted Fox, Daniel Farrands, Randall Emmett, Phillip Dawe
Writer Franck Khalfoun

They're trying to bring back the series!

So the Amityville series continues. What this is like overall a tenth film. The last one was a decade ago. I'm okay with their idea of bringing it up. But there's nothing new in it. Only it was a different cast and timeline. So basically, you probably have seen this story in other flicks.

A family of a single mother with one child with a serious medical condition moves into the most popular haunted house, the Amityville. The other one, a teen girl discovers the rumours from her new schoolmates. But the mother won't heed to it, till unusual events begin to unfold. So how it all ends are the rest of the film.

The cast was good, and that's it, the film was average. If you are a big fan of horror, then this would be even a worse film, because you might have seen hundreds of similar flicks. I think Amityville franchise is dead, because of bad storied films. Otherwise with good filmmakers, particularly the writer, it could come back to the old glory. So now, it's not that worth. I would suggest to check it out other horrors released in this year.

5/10

Reno

Weak entry to an already played out franchise. You've seen it before, either in the previous instalments or in any other ghosty horror film. Jennifer Jason Leigh is turning up for a pay-cheque, Cameron Monaghan is as lifeless as the character he plays. Seen worse but definitely seen much much better.

5/10

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