The Amityville Haunting
The Amityville Haunting

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The Amityville Haunting

2011
Movie
86 min
English

This movie is a 'found-footage' film about the Benson family who move in to the infamous house where the DeFeo family were murdered in the 1970s over 30 years earlier. Things start happening to anyone who visits this house, and whoever lives there. This is the footage retrieved from the camera.

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IMDb2.6/10
Director: Joe ChappelleGenres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Plot Summary

A family moves into a new house, unaware of its dark history, and soon experiences terrifying supernatural events. As the haunting escalates, they must uncover the truth behind the house's past before it consumes them.

Critical Reception

The film received overwhelmingly negative reviews from critics, who largely panned its predictable plot, reliance on jump scares, and lack of originality. Audiences also found it to be a forgettable entry in the long-running Amityville franchise.

What Reviewers Say

  • Fails to bring anything new to the haunted house genre.

  • Relies too heavily on cheap scares and a derivative storyline.

  • A tedious and uninspired continuation of a tired franchise.

Google audience: Audience reviews are scarce, but those available indicate disappointment with the film's lack of scares and unoriginality, with many viewers finding it a dull and predictable horror movie.

Fun Fact

This film is the ninth installment in the Amityville film series, despite its title suggesting a new take on the original story.

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So this is it, the first "Amityville" part that doesn't belong to the official franchise. This terrible catastrophe of a movie is just another one of these damn low budget, soulless Found Footage atrocities, that should have wandered off ri...