Review of Amityville: The Awakening (2017) by Philipblake — 25 May 2019

First of all there's no 18 official entry as stated by misleading comments. Amiytivile The Awakening is in fact the 10th official entry. Amityville, part II, part 3D, part IV, The Curse, It's About Time, New Generation, Dollhouse, Amityville reboot and then Amityville Awakening, later The Amityville Murders was added as a reboot of The Possessed (part II). All other movies labeled Amityville are just for take some money from the cashcow fans I'm afraid, nothing more. Didn't think you can add Amityville Asylum or other boring titles as Amityville Haunting in the franchise since they aren't.

Then back to the 10th entry, Amityville Awakening, the film is totally lost about how to establish himself. It's in the same time a sequel to the original, but other Amityville movies (1, 2 and reboot) are actually on DVD on screen in the movie, this made it a kind of Scream-like Amityville reboot. At the same time some parts are rebooting The Amityville II as a backstory. The film is a real mess. They have actually no idea of what they want to do with the film and this can easily be understood simply by just watching it. Cast of Bella Thorne and Jennifer Jason Leigh are both solid but this does not save the film. Frank Khalfou is actually a good director, his Maniac reboot is just amazing and P2 was a nice thriller, but he have totally miss the point on this one. Only Rob's original score is interesting and have a fresh approach to the franchise. Otherwise horror sequences was just boring and stupid, packed with jumpscare all around. With every scenes predictable and made as it was a direct to video title. It looks like a bad highly budgeted fanboy movie. Total waste of time and talents. This is maybe not the worst Amityville entry to date (thanks to The Amityville Curse) but this is without any doubts the most confusing.