The Amityville Freak-Out
May 8th, 2005
So. I finally saw the new remake of The Amityville Horror tonight. In a nutshell: a fairly-decent remake of a classic haunted house tale that gets a LOT of things right that the original clearly missed-out on, but still fails a good bit as well thanks to an overabundance of gratuitous, hackneyed plot devices and concepts that the film could’ve easily done without.
Before you go on to the review itself, let me warn yo’ ass: spoilers abound from here on…because there’s no real way for me to talk about what both made the film and wrecked it for me without mentioning specifics, many of which concern the climax. If you’ve already seen the film or don’t care about me “ruining the plot for you” - which should be impossible because, c’mon, who hasn’t either seen the original or doesn’t know something about the archetypal tale, anyway? - then proceed on by clickin’ the little number 2 below….
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