I have never seen the Amityville films, either the 1979 version or the 2005 Michael Bay hash-job. It was a surprise then that we sat down to watch this ‘found footage’ film which has about as much terror in it as an episode of Pingu. The film starts off with this group of annoying teenagers who break into the house and start getting ‘friendly’ with each other before something happens to them.
Fast forward and a family moves in and the strange things happen. Every so often there would be a strange figure that would appear for a second and whilst the story moves on the dad goes extremely crazy. He refuses to ask his annoying son who keeps asking questions and doesn’t go anywhere without his camcorder. After a while the family gets killed in various ways but the little girl who has befriended a ghost. The problem is that due to the dads performance it has gone from being a horror film to a comedy because he just goes totally OTT in a way which is distracting. Once it starts going into Paranormal Activity territory I just found myself starting to lose patience with it.
At the end of the film I just felt that if I was rating it out of 10 then it would be 5 and that is being generous. The acting is borderline poor and its rare that a film has so many annoying characters but this film does.
Fast forward and a family moves in and the strange things happen. Every so often there would be a strange figure that would appear for a second and whilst the story moves on the dad goes extremely crazy. He refuses to ask his annoying son who keeps asking questions and doesn’t go anywhere without his camcorder. After a while the family gets killed in various ways but the little girl who has befriended a ghost. The problem is that due to the dads performance it has gone from being a horror film to a comedy because he just goes totally OTT in a way which is distracting. Once it starts going into Paranormal Activity territory I just found myself starting to lose patience with it.
At the end of the film I just felt that if I was rating it out of 10 then it would be 5 and that is being generous. The acting is borderline poor and its rare that a film has so many annoying characters but this film does.
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