User Reviews

There are over 50 movies in the Amityville franchise; the first two are great, and a few others are pretty decent. Many of them just named their movie Amityville to connect it to the original. This movie is something different. Not only does it connect to the original, but it also is connected to every other film in the franchise up until now. The writing was beautiful and original. The entire cast has the chemistry you only get from people who really know each other. Not since Amityville 2: The Possession have I enjoyed an Amityville movie so much. This movie has excellent pacing, it moves along very well. There are multiple parts that will make you laugh, and smile, and there are some great creepy moments as well, with scares as well. Avoiding all spoilers, this movie is one of the best sequels in this very large franchise, definitely, one you need to check out.

This movie is hard to rate. On the one hand, it's very well done for how cheap it is. But it also misses the mark quite a bit.

If you're reading this and you don't know the director, writer, and lead actor Josh has a YouTube channel called Movie Timelines (or had, if you're reading this way in the future), you should seek it out before or after watching this, as this is basically a fictionalized behind-the-scenes look at his life.

It's about a horror YouTuber receiving a door knob from the Amityville house and becoming cursed as a result. While this movie is currently classified as Horror, it's far more funny than scary. Josh is naturally funny, and his one-liners will have you laughing (or perhaps just chuckling), which unfortunately undercuts a lot of the tension he works to establish. The ridiculous demon costumes and bad cgi also help make the movie funny. Overall, this is a much better comedy than horror.

Still, though, Josh makes some interesting observations about horror films throughout, which bumps this up for me. I enjoyed it, but I felt it could have been smarter.