The Amityville Haunting (2011)

To me, this movie is perfection.

People are voting emotionally.

Absolutely Fantastic

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

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. The Amityville Haunting tries to be alot like Paranormal Activity and even tho i'm no fan of those movies as a whole they were at least half decent and entertaining unlike this movie which was just cheap and all over the place and it's an overall mistake as a whole. (F)

My Amityville binge has led me to this, a found footage movie set in a world where Amityville has been recognised, made into movies and books and yet another family moves into the infamous house anyway.As with all found footage films very little happens and this is 80 minutes of sheer unadulterated boredom.What makes it worse (If that's possible) is that it's not even the Amityville house despite being said multiple times that it is. Both inside and out that becomes blatantly apparent and really is seven shades of stupid.So we have shaky cam, we have night vision cam and we have the obligatory handicam filmed by someone who absolutely positively has to record everything for some reason.In true Amityville style people change, folks turn on each other and yet somehow this is the worst one yet.The Good: It ended, that bit was good The Bad: That had to be the least sexy sex scene since the zombie humping in Braindead (1992) NOT the Amityville house The "Warning" real footage thing is getting dumbThings I Learnt From This Movie: The fact that there are no opening credits, no closing credits and therefore everyone involved is uncredited screams volumes Someone should really trademark Amityville so Joe Talentless can't keep adding it to his film

I have rarely ever seen such an instantly unlikeable film and cast of characters. It's amazing what can be cranked out to try and make a buck.The dialogue is atrocious and unbelievable, especially when it's delivered by such atrocious actors. The younger actors can get a little break since they're young, but the adults should know better than to give such terrible performances. The parents in this were among the most awful I've ever seen -- not only were they hideously unlikeable as characters, they were utterly uncharismatic as actors. And who says the things they were saying when seeing the house? If I were that real estate agent, I'd have felt as awkward as she looked like she was feeling.'The family did not survive', the poster informs us. After watching ten minutes of this, you'll answer it with 'so what?'

Okay so I actually managed to watch the whole thing. The dad (Doughlas) is so annoying throughout the whole film. He does nothing but yell and denies everything everyone says to him. Bad acting mixed with bad scripts. Also the deaths scenes are pretty laughable. It seems like they were trying to make a Paranormal Activity parody, like "Scary Movie" or whatever. It got 2 stars because it has a few small jump scares, which I appreciate. I know it's a low-budget movie but it's like they don't even try anymore. The young daughter was the only one with fair acting. Everyone else was horrible.Oh and once again, the dad was so annoying. I can't say it enough.