Many other genres often relies on "known quantities" in terms of franchise titles and the like, and while not really all that salient to the actual
Amityville: The Awakening has arguably the least convincing tether to that underlying "true life" story, and as such itĪlmost seems like an afterthought (or at best, a marketing strategy) to even locate this story in Amityville. The Amityville franchise has frankly never offered paradigms of horror brilliance, but The Amityville Horror, Amityville II: The Possession and Amityville 3-D all played at least tangentially with the underlying true life horror of the murder of the DeFeo family inġ974, if only in explorations as to whether the stories about the focal house being "possessed" were factual or the figments of some enterprisingįolks' imaginations. Reminiscent of a similar device in the fairly recent Naomi Watts thriller Shut In. The Weinstein Company's well publicized travails of late perhaps only add insult to injury, but the fact isĪmityville: The Awakening has "issues" of its own which it's never able to overcome, including a basic conceit that seems at least a little Move into 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville: The Awakening seemed to have been cursed itself, with numerous delays "haunting" its actual Notice about Amityville: The Awakening's Blu-ray release due to unspecified "issues with The Weinstein Company". While the underlying situation is certainly no laughing matter, I couldn't help but have a kind of raised eyebrow bemusement when I received a Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, November 14, 2017
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