Amityville Horror

TerrorFirmer

So, whos seen this?

Saw it tonight, ending very rushed as seems to happen in alot of movies nowadays but other then that, great movie.

Makes the original movie look really stupid, even though it IS still a classic...

Some great scary moments (or jump moments you might say) but the build up of tension in several scenes made it something a bit more then just a traditional "relies on jump tactics" movie.

Worth a look to anyone. Its a bit hollywood in places, and can get a bit unusual with regards to plot, but still another great fright fest no matter how you look at it!

And wow, Ryan Reynolds is great....never thought he'd make it as an actor to be taken seriously but hes fantastic in this, hope to see him in alot more movies!

JUst back from seeing it myself. I take it you and the red haired wizard went to see it in Oranmore.

I have to agree that the ending felt a bit rushed, but it did'nt take much away from the film which over all was very good.

I had been looking forward to seeing it for the past few months and I was'nt disappointed. It was remenisent of the Texas Chainsaw remake, in that it did'nt rape the original for ideas. It created a whole new film with enough originality to let it stand on its own.

And Ryan Reynolds was excellant, but I've been saying that for a while and nobody ever listened.

Basq

Yeah... i have quite high hopes for this too. Will check it out over the weekend.

And Darko, you're right about Ryan Reynolds - he is a brillant actor!

sutty

I have to agree, a very good flick. Some fantastic buildup's and scares. (unlike the ring 2 which was just trying to scare you every 5min and failed)

The Amityville Horror was very well done. Went to see it last night with the G/F and she'd not walk into the apartment untill I turned on all the lights. I also noticed that at the end of the showing the people in the cinema all seemed to agree or at least where all taken away with it. In the view that it was a good movie. (Its odd to hear everyone going "WOW that was freaky")


Also Ryan Reynolds was very good in it. He was the only good thing in Blade Tinity and he has often had the good lines in a Kevin Smith movie. Heres to him and hopping to see him in more good movies

madrab

sutty wrote:

Also Ryan Reynolds was very good in it. He was the only good thing in Blade Tinity and he has often had the good lines in a Kevin Smith movie. Heres to him and hopping to see him in more good movies

youre thinking of Jason Lee, but they do look and talk the exact same

Irishpimp

supposed to be very good i might check it out tonight :-D

Scammo

Saw it yesterday and i must say one of the better ones ive seen recently....

...certainly better than that ****e Ring 2!!!

SoupyNorman

just back from seeing it now, i was'nt too impressed but to be honest its been a while since anything has 'impressed' me lately in the movie house!

couple of niggles i have are the striking similarities there are to other films of the genre..

for instance:

the scene in which the young lady mounts her man in the middle of the night and he starts to 'see bad things' = stir of echoes, and when the little boy needs to go wee wees in the middle of the night=sixth sense

other then that it did hold my attention from start to finish (unlike HITCH, NATIONAL TREASURE to name but two of hundreds!)

darko wrote:

And Ryan Reynolds was excellant, but I've been saying that for a while and nobody ever listened.

strongly agree, the way he

killed the dog

was fantastic, he was
p!ssed and you could feel it!!!

although he did show a bit too much skin for my likeing

applehunter

I wasnt all that impressed at all. Ive seen it before loads of times.

Its basically The Shining only with a house and not a hotel.

Phil_321

Wasn't great, seen it all before. Was fairly dissappointed with the

low(ie. nil) kill ratio. FFS, what sort of horror film doesn't even have one killing.

Ryan Reynalds put in a great performance alright, didn't think he had it in him tbh. But it'll take a good few more like that for me to forgive him for Blade: Trinity.

TerrorFirmer

With regards to your point phil,

Its based on a true story, in which none of the original family members who fled the house after the 28 days were killed. Hence they hardly were going to change it around to the extent of someone dying. Same as the original film. I thought it a perfectly good movie without anyone dying!

Good horror films don't have to have a body count. It's the way that the film builds the tension that makes it so memorable.

Irishpimp

yeah its a great movie seen it last night first film in years that has made me jump :eek:

seamus

Good movie, not exactly A horror though.

Drag00n79

Saw it last night and wasn't too impressed, unfortunately. Reminded me of too many other movies as applehunter said. It reminded me a lot of The Shining and Hide & Seek.

Drag00n79

Response to Mobile Infantry's Spoiler:
The story is not true. From IMDb:
"Despite still being promoted as a true story, it is in fact a hoax. Convicted killer Ronald DeFao Jr's attorney William Weber concocted the story with the Lutzes. Weber wanted to use the publicity to get his client a new trial, while George Lutz needed a way to get out of the mortgage due to his failing business. Weber confessed this on a radio show in 1979 and the Lutzes confessed the same in 1992. In 1995 George and Kathy Lutz admitted, under oath, that their story is a fabrication".

kjt

Scammo wrote:

Saw it yesterday and i must say one of the better ones ive seen recently....

...certainly better than that ****e Ring 2!!!

Took the words out of my mouth. The ring2 sucked, This is a great film and I'd go see it again.
The Cave also looks like it will be good. There's alot of good horrors out lately

TerrorFirmer

Shamrok wrote:

Response to Mobile Infantry's Spoiler:
The story is not true. From IMDb:
"Despite still being promoted as a true story, it is in fact a hoax. Convicted killer Ronald DeFao Jr's attorney William Weber concocted the story with the Lutzes. Weber wanted to use the publicity to get his client a new trial, while George Lutz needed a way to get out of the mortgage due to his failing business. Weber confessed this on a radio show in 1979 and the Lutzes confessed the same in 1992. In 1995 George and Kathy Lutz admitted, under oath, that their story is a fabrication".

Oops. Oddly enough, I did not know that! In any case, then I'm sure it was just to be faithful to the original movie then I suppose....

Good movie, not exactly A horror though.

I'd be curious to know as to what you would refer to as "horror"?

Karl Hungus

Shamrok wrote:

Response to Mobile Infantry's Spoiler:
The story is not true. From IMDb:
"Despite still being promoted as a true story, it is in fact a hoax. Convicted killer Ronald DeFao Jr's attorney William Weber concocted the story with the Lutzes. Weber wanted to use the publicity to get his client a new trial, while George Lutz needed a way to get out of the mortgage due to his failing business. Weber confessed this on a radio show in 1979 and the Lutzes confessed the same in 1992. In 1995 George and Kathy Lutz admitted, under oath, that their story is a fabrication".

While it's certainly up in the air whether or not it was a hoax, that part you've quoted from imdb is 100% bull****. First of all, the Lutzes never once admitted it was a fabrication, and certainly not under oath. They had in fact previously done a lie-detector test, and passed.

I'd also be wary of anything a lawyer would say.

Winning Hand

Scared the crap out of me! The film had several moments where it was fright after fright with no break in between, bout gave me a heart attack. Ending was rushed but all in all, it was the scariest movie I have seen in ages. Shame I had to sit through the 'house of wax' and 'cursed' trailers before. God those movies look like a load of balls

seamus

MobileInfantry wrote:

I'd be curious to know as to what you would refer to as "horror"?

Something that scares me, or did scare me. Ring is a horror. Ring 2 is not. "horror" is subjective to me

LoneGunM@n

I'm looking forward to seeing thins movie ... hope it's as good as most people have said!!

Originally posted by seamus
Something that scares me, or did scare me. Ring is a horror.

The Ring scared the bejebus outta me ... hope it's as good as that

Draven

Saw Amityville on Monday night. Some jumpy moments, pretty boring film in general with Ryan Reynolds' performance and Melissa George's partial nudity being the only good things about it. Her acting was almost as diabolical as it was when she was in Home and Away(cut me some slack, I was about 14 or 15 when she was in it so I'm allowed to admit I watched it in the background, lol). Felt more like a TV movie. Having said that, the original felt like a TV movie too but it actually made a far superior effort and was genuinely creepy. The sound/music on the new one is woeful and almost non-existant in comparison to genre greats such as The Ring and even the original Amityville. Shame on Hollywood.

More rants will follow undoubtedly...... :rolleyes:

Draven

LoneGunM@n wrote:

The Ring scared the bejebus outta me ... hope it's as good as that

To mention these two films in the same sentence is sacrilege as Amityville is an abuse of cinema goers everywhere, except America, where they deserve the abuse (J/K)

(and Yes, I'm aware I mentioned the two films in the same sentence on my last post but it's 4:11am here and I can't be bothered going back and editing the post, lol)

TerrorFirmer

Draven wrote:

Saw Amityville on Monday night. Some jumpy moments, pretty boring film in general with Ryan Reynolds' performance and Melissa George's partial nudity being the only good things about it. Her acting was almost as diabolical as it was when she was in Home and Away(cut me some slack, I was about 14 or 15 when she was in it so I'm allowed to admit I watched it in the background, lol). Felt more like a TV movie. Having said that, the original felt like a TV movie too but it actually made a far superior effort and was genuinely creepy. The sound/music on the new one is woeful and almost non-existant in comparison to genre greats such as The Ring and even the original Amityville. Shame on Hollywood.

More rants will follow undoubtedly...... :rolleyes:

Speaking of home and away, thats about as creepy as I found the original movie. In other words - not scary, creepy, nor anyway frightening. However, the new one was genuinely good at what it did.

The old one dates poorly, (the gate to hell looks like a lamp with cloth over it shined towards the camera) and manages to retain absolutely no sense of creepiness. I found it mildly humourous to watch, I must admit. (few scenes like the comical "Get out" booming voice, etc.) Overall I did like it, but tbh, if you think its creepy and argue the remake is not, then you have to be just a little strange.

And to say the remake looked like a TV movie? Thats just ridiculous. That statement applies no more to this then it would to ANY movie released recently. I'd like to know what you actually compare this to thats been released on TV only for comparison.

Draven

You need to read it again dude. I didn't say it LOOKED like a TV Movie. I said it FELT like a TV movie. In other words, it was as dull as some TV movies can be(in places). The kind of film you watch, simply because it's on and there's nothing better to watch. Don't get me wrong. I did like the remake, just didn't do much for me. I think maybe it was Melissa George's lack of believeability. For example, when she was on the roof, there was a point where she seemed relaxed, which shouldn't have happened given the circumstances of the scene.

To be fair, if I watched the original version again now, I'd probably have the same reaction as you(as I laughed through most of the Exorcist even though it's a great film). I think I've killed my own point here really but when I saw Amityville the first time around, I was about 10 so that's probably why it stuck in my memory as being creepy, lol.

You may now take back the comment about me being strange, thanks.

TerrorFirmer

Hahaha.....okay

You're a cool guy

Draven

Cheers

Respect to ya for saying so and respect for the Army of Darkness pic. I have the trilogy on DVD. YAY me.

jinxycat

Shamrok wrote:

Response to Mobile Infantry's Spoiler:
The story is not true. From IMDb:
"Despite still being promoted as a true story, it is in fact a hoax. Convicted killer Ronald DeFao Jr's attorney William Weber concocted the story with the Lutzes. Weber wanted to use the publicity to get his client a new trial, while George Lutz needed a way to get out of the mortgage due to his failing business. Weber confessed this on a radio show in 1979 and the Lutzes confessed the same in 1992. In 1995 George and Kathy Lutz admitted, under oath, that their story is a fabrication".

aye but then why is george lutz suing the makers of the film for making him out to be so evil, don't think he'd be suing if it wasn't real.

Draven

aye but then why is george lutz suing the makers of the film for making him out to be so evil, don't think he'd be suing if it wasn't real.

Um, not to be nasty or anything but you kinda answered that one yourself. It's defamation of character or at least he's making out that it is so that he can sue the film's producers for lots of lovely money :rolleyes: Doesn't necessarily prove that it's real.

*adele*

Just saw it there the other day really really scary!!!

i R baboon

right, anyone who says they didnt like this film and were not scared are down right blatant liars. it was not only scary and better than the original, it was entertaining with no boring parts. and the ring (american remake) is the worst film, yes film, not even horror film, just film, ever. ooooo...a horse going mental on a boat, was that supposed to be scary. wel ya know what i thought, boll"*ks. my apologies if i come across as cranky, but it wrecks my head when tools talk about films that are rubbish like there good(ie lord of the rings trilogy)and talk about good films as if they were rubbish(the matrix trilogy).

i R baboon

i R baboon wrote:

right, anyone who says they didnt like this film and were not scared are down right blatant liars. it was not only scary and better than the original, it was entertaining with no boring parts. and the ring (american remake) is the worst film, yes film, not even horror film, just film, ever. ooooo...a horse going mental on a boat, was that supposed to be scary. wel ya know what i thought, boll"*ks. my apologies if i come across as cranky, but it wrecks my head when tools talk about films that are rubbish like there good(ie lord of the rings trilogy)and talk about good films as if they were rubbish(the matrix trilogy).

WTF? Everyone's opinion differs. Just because you think a film is good doesn't necessarily mean that it is. For instance I really like some films, that everyone else seems to hate it. It all boils down to personal taste.

The Lord of the Rings is one of the greatest films ever made, the Matrix Reloaded is just crap and Revolutions is'nt much better. See how our opinions differ there? Personal taste.

BTW, Its obvious that you're a troll so kindly find another forum board to troll on.

Draven

right, anyone who says they didnt like this film and were not scared are down right blatant liars. it was not only scary and better than the original, it was entertaining with no boring parts.

Maybe you slept through the boring parts but they were definitely there. Pointless build-up which wasn't utilized. Terrible sound, bad acting on everyone's part, except for Ryan Reynolds. For the record, for me personally, I haven't been scared by any film. You'll notice I used the word "creepy" when referring to The Ring, not scary but then, again, like I said, a film has yet to scare me.

it wrecks my head when tools talk about films that are rubbish like there good

You might want to leave out the insults in your next post if you want people to listen to your opinion. Calling people tools when the only people who are tools are those who don't see that other people have their own preferences and don't deserve to be called tools for that simple fact.

The Lord of the Rings is one of the greatest films ever made, the Matrix Reloaded is just crap and Revolutions is'nt much better. See how our opinions differ there? Personal taste.

Exactly, couldn't agree with you more. Although, I have to say, the same idea applies to both triolgies. First film in both were great. Second and Third films dwindled and in the case of the Matrix, just went downhill entirely. Having said that, Return of the King could have ended about a half an hour earlier because of the excessive endings boredom.

TerrorFirmer

a horse going mental on a boat, was that supposed to be scary

You're a bit of a tool yourself it you think thats the pinncle of horror the Ring has to offer.... :rolleyes:

Talk about ignorance.

Draven

Draven wrote:

Exactly, couldn't agree with you more. Although, I have to say, the same idea applies to both triolgies. First film in both were great. Second and Third films dwindled and in the case of the Matrix, just went downhill entirely. Having said that, Return of the King could have ended about a half an hour earlier because of the excessive endings boredom.

I find it very hard to knock the Lord of the Rings. I felt that Jackson did an outstanding job, even if he did ensure that I will never be able to realise my life long dream.

I can see where you're coming from and I will agree with you in some respects. But everyone giving of about the ending of the film all I can say is that I hoped that it would never end.

TOPDAWG

Saw it yesterday and thought it was unreal. I cant stand flicks like the ring or grudge cos i just find em stupid as they tend to scare by gore and guts but thought this played out a lot like Sixth Sense or The Others. For me some parts felt like the fear you get as you sit on a rollercoaster and it starts to climb up and up and up and then SLAM!! CLASS.

i R baboon

Right ive been put in my place, i apologise for the insults. i was lookin for a response and i got it. stil dont like lotp though, but just as i am ye're intitled to ye're opinions.

dinjo

i agree with everyone but i R baboo and TOPDAWG, i think they both need a bottle of "cop on"

WELL DONE LINNANE.....

TOPDAWG

dinjo wrote:

i agree with everyone but i R baboo and TOPDAWG , i think they both need a bottle of "cop on"

What ya on about man??? I said i thought Amityville was good!!

Tindie

I hated this movie and I seen all 8 movies in series

1) Amityville II: The Possession (1982) 8 out of 10

i really enjoyed this movie, this is second time i have seen it,.
some good scenes, i could not stand the dad , i wish he was shot early before, the ending was dissaponting but i still think it the best in series.

2) The Amityville Horror (1979) 7 out of 10
Good movie but not as scary as it was made out to be,

3) Amityville: Dollhouse (1996) 7 out of 10
The whole movie, it was very entertaining from start to the end and it was not boring or predictable like previous movies at all. they saved one of the best for last.

4) Amityville: The Evil Escapes (1989) 6 out 10
This is movie is really good, much better then the third, this movie can a get a bit silly at times but it works well with the rest of the movie, movie get a bit boring but there is always something to keep you entertained.

5) Amityville 1992: It's About Time (1992) 5 out of 10
it's worth watching at least once.

6) Amityville 3-D (1983) 5 out of 10
First movie was okay, a tad over-hyped and the second was really good, which I think is very underrated and this movie is really dull, this movie had nothing going for it, there no scary or creepy moment in this movie, it just felt flat from start to the end, like there no real story in it however it did pick up near the end with the explosions, which were really well done, those were okay scenes and I really enjoyed watching and the acting was really good as well from the whole cast.

7) Amityville: A New Generation (1993) 3 out of 10
This is the weakest of them of all, it not the worse one in the series as The Amityville Curse is still the worse of the series, this movie in the second worse but still watchable unlike The Amityville Curse.


8) The Amityville Curse (1990) 1 out of 10
I have seen all the Amityville movies now, this movie is the most pointless Amityville sequel ever and there no need to see this movie at all, there is not one second worth watching in this movie.

If you don't want to waste 1 and half hours of your life Please!!!!! skip this movie and Carry on with the rest of the series they are better then this one (not great but better).

9) The Amityville Horror (2005) 1 out of 10
I just saw this last night, what waste a of time, utter rubbish. what the hell were they thinking, when they were making this!

Plus there 3 more upcoming sequels to this series
The Amityville Horror: The Lost Tapes (2012) (found Footage movie)
Amityville: The Legacy 3-D (2012)
I know there another one but forgot the name!

Sad Professor

Welcome to the forum, Tindie.

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Cheers.