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DVD : The Amityville Horror (Widescreen Special Edition) |
- how dare you!?how dare anybody make a movie this awful?! at first, i was completely astounded that this movie could have even made it to theaters. but then, i sadly realized, that this is the exact kind of tripe that is selling; this is the stuff that has completely simple-minded, easily convinced and basically stupid people entertained. tell me- why the little girl with white face paint and black drawn-on veins? did the producers think that we were too ignorant to imagine our own ghost that they had to conveniently provide us with the most generic, trick-or-treater looking, non-scary, seen-it-a-million-times-before image? one thing that moviemakers should try to remember- NOT ALL OF US ARE COMPLETELY IGNORANT, SIMPLE-MINDED MORONS! yes, i know, usually films in the horror genre are total no-brainers. but still, anyone who isn't a part of the pretentious art film movement knows that even a genius can enjoy a good old fashioned scary movie.
you know, hollywood has completely run out of scary imagery. every monster has already been used in one way or another. sometimes the only way to really put a scare into the audience is to let them concoct the ghost/monster on their own. believe me, i will imagine something absolutely terrifying. when the creating of the ghost is left to the viewer, we usually base its image on our own worst fears. yet, for some reason, movies like this still try to give us the image, assuming that we are too idiotic and unimaginitive to do it on out own. i won't even go into the technical inconsistencies of this movie (score being louder than the dialogue, horribly flawed storyline, predictable "scares", etc.) and i'll just say that anybody with a brain would be offended by this ridiculously dumbed-down version of a movie that NEVER should have been remade. anybody with no brain at all will find it thoroughly entertaining and they will probably even jump out of their seats at the spots in the movie where the music gets real loud and the gongs smash and then... nothing happens. just some loud music and ANOTHER predictable false alarm. wow, scary, right?!
p.s. i did consider giving the movie 5 stars just because ryan reynolds' smoking body kept me glued to the screen at times, but then i figured i would just watch some porn. so, negative 5 stars, it is!
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- A remake that shouldn't have been done.This remake was bad! I didn't follow the original plot and seemed really made up. I thought the acting was generic and bad. They did a horrible job at making it feel as if it were the 70's. And worst of all, they didn't have the seen with the flashing red lights out the window. WHAT KIND OF A DIRECTOR WOULD DO THAT!! Destroy an original. That's horrible. Check out the original if you want a good movie.
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- Surprisingly Eerie Remake"The Amityville Horror" is a surprisingly good recent horror film. Michael Bay uses the original film as a strong base, and adds several conventions borrowed from more recent horror films (mainly the American remakes of "The Grudge" and "The Ring"). The result is far from subtle, but unlike most recent horror films, "Amityville" is thoroughly professional, competent, and well-crafted. Purists will carp about how this film takes liberties with the 'true' Amityville story, but I could care less. I got some genuine scares with this movie, was entertained from beginning to end, and was happy at how the film found some resolution at its climax.
Flaws? Although set in the 1970s, Bay doesn't really capture the feel of the decade at all and there are many anomalies that will drive you up the wall if you remember the decade well. The hairstyles, the fashions, and even the home decor seem more late 1990s than mid-1970s. Also, the scenery looks nothing like Long Island (where the real Amityville is located), and one wonders exactly why the test pattern shown on TV periodically is still the black-and-white Indian Chief that hadn't been used since the 1960s.
Horror is a lot like comedy. What tickles one person silly is just silly to another. I found this movie to be very scary, and I think you might as well.
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- The butchering of a great movie!With so many remakes tarnishing horror films during the past few years, it didnt surprise me one bit that this would be a piece of trash. Sure, the first ten minutes probely had more action then the 1979 version, which of course makes it so silly and ludicrious since this is supposed to be based on a true story. Let me state that there are those that think this is true, and others that think it was a made up hoex. I myself, happen to believe it was true, even though there wasnt any real evidence of any happenings. If you believe, the ORIGINAL is a definate fright, and still gives me goose bumps. The orginal was much very accurate to the book, which is a fine read. This remake doesnt even touch on the supense as the book or the 1979 version. This is why so many horror movies fail and that hollywood writers are running out of ideas. The slow paced suspense that builds up our fear meters seems to not be in the agenda of most hollywood films. Instead of that we get pretty much a bloodbath and more bodycount then Rambo. I dont detest violence or anything, I love a great splatter flick. But when you take stories such as this, or the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which were made to build up suspense slowly, and try to make it a fast paced action bloodbath, then most of the time it fails. This is why most remakes suck, as you are taking away from what you dont see (which can be more suspenseful and terrifying) and adding more of what you didnt see in the orginals, but it just tarnishs the film. Even though films like Saw and Hostel, use tons of violence, there still is a great suspense factor added, which adds more to the story making it more shocking and frighting. Blair Witch and Open Water, two indie films, use the same suspensful story which make them great. If Blair Witch was made for todays younger audience, it probely would have bombed, since I think todays younger crowd just doesnt get it. If you really want to see this and have interest, please check out the 1979 version or read the book. This does the story of the Amityville Horror no justice and its a piece of garbage.
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- LaughablePure trash that has absolutely nothing to do with the original movie, or the book, let alone what the Lutz family actually claimed happened in the house. Andrew Douglas took one of America's most pervasive haunted house stories, and a cult classic, and turned it into a cheesy daddy-goes-crazy slasher.
Furthermore, it's an assault on George Lutz' character, accusing him of everything from hacking his dog to pieces to trying to murder his family.
Seems kind of strange to make a movie about an (at the time) living family and deny the family access to the movie until its release, doesn't it?
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