Amityville: The Awakening

2017 "Every house has a history. This one has a legend."
4.8| 1h27m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 30 June 2017 Released
Producted By: Miramax
Country: United States of America
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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.

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FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.
WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.
Forumrxes Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.
Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.
johannes2000-1 The umptieth rip-off of the Amityville story, apparently it can go on forever. But when you ignore the feeling of exhaustion that overcomes you at the start, you'll get a pretty decent movie. Okay, all the cliché's are there (every night a new thunderstorm sweeps over the house!) but in this one they brought in a new idea with the comatose son/brother that is nursed at home and gradually gets possessed by the evil powers that still infest the house. This storyline is worked-out rather well and gives us some pretty creepy scenes. The acting is actually very good, mother Jennifer Jason Leigh is truly convincing as the overbearing mother who is obsessed with her sick son, and Bella Thorne plays the daughter very well. She starts out as an emo girl with all the necessary make-up and paraphernalia, but gradually changes to her bare self, which gave the story a nice touch. There's no gore or complicated CGI, it's all about creepy atmosphere and that really worked for me. Oh, and they put in a funny wink at their own Amityville franchise: the daughter hooks up with some school-mates who show her the original first Amityville movie on dvd! In short: not the long awaited spectacular re-make, but still an entertaining movie in it's own right.
Andres-Camara Es una película que me ha dejado sin sabor a nada. No puedo decir que sea mala, no es de esas películas de terror que puedes quitar de lo malas que son, pero no me dice nada. No me asusta, no tiene intriga, no me creo los sustos, pero no me parece que sea muy mala. Solo es.El maquillaje del hijo cuando esta poseído me parece muy malo.El caso es que los actores no están mal, no están estupendos pero no están mal.La iluminación a veces es tan oscura que no se va nada. Debe ser oscura, pero debe dejar ver.La dirección, no llega a atrapar, pero ni te aburre, ni te quieres ir. Lleva la película y ya. No hace planos bonitos, no cuenta nada con la cámara.Y es que no tiene mucho másIt's a movie that has left me without flavor to anything. I can not say it's bad, it's not one of those horror movies that you can take away from how bad they are, but it does not tell me anything. It does not scare me, it has no intrigue, I do not believe the scares, but I do not think it's very bad. It's just.The makeup of the son when he is possessed seems very bad to me.The fact is that the actors are not bad, they are not great but they are not bad.The lighting is sometimes so dark that nothing goes away. It must be dark, but it must be seen.The address does not get to catch, but neither bores you, nor do you want to leave. Take the movie and now. It does not make beautiful plans, it does not count with the camera.And it does not have much more
coolistgee This is a straight to DVD horror film that somehow made it's way to the big screen. The story line had some potential but very quickly this ends up being a typical haunted house movie with same ole characters: typical suburban family, goth/rebel teenage daughter, and innocent kid... basically no relate-able characters.
fjk1138-731-161881 What happens when you expect nothing from a movie, but then get even less than that? Well...you get a piece of crap like this.This is barely an attempt at horror, with barely any scares, and it drips the blood of the series' nostalgia more than anything else. The plot is severely weak, and it's worsened by the fact that it pulls the other movies into the story. No, I don't mean just by referencing the events, I mean they literally reference three of the movies here - one of the characters holds up DVDs of Amityville 1, 2, and the remake and suggests they watch them at 3:15 am. Huh? What?? That is the point where they lost me, and the stupid story took a deep six right down the well to hell right then and there. Speaking of which, that comes into play here yet again (people who have owned the real house have to be just shaking their heads by now) and hey guess what? That's the source of the evil again! Wow, didn't see that coming.The acting is pretty meh, and all I can assume is the actors all had some bills to pay to even participate here. The house looks too neat, new, and clean to have any menace to it. It's also completely physically positioned incorrectly, made worse by the fact that they show photos at the start of the movie of the actual house where you can clearly see how close the neighbors are. And to think that all the other supposed occupants wouldn't have pitched that stupid "high hopes" sign into the trash is completely pathetic. The musical score, while mot bad for what it is, is no match for the creepy, squeaky strings and children's voices that Lalo Schifrin made work far more effectively almost 40 years ago now.There is basically no point to this movie. It's nothing you haven't seen before, quite literally, and it's not worth your time. Don't bother, and I hope the studios all don't bother with future installments either.