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Amityville: The Awakening is a 2017 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Franck Khalfoun and starring Bella Thorne, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Cameron Monaghan, Mckenna Grace, Thomas Mann, Taylor Spreitler, Jennifer Morrison, and Kurtwood Smith.
Jan 27, 2012 · Amityville: The Awakening. A desperate single mother moves with her three children into the notorious, supposedly haunted, real-life Amityville house to try and use its dark powers to cure her comatose son. Things go horribly wrong.
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- Horror, Thriller
- Franck Khalfoun
- 2017-10-12
- One of the more watchable Amityville films, for whatever that praise may be worth.
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Updated: Oct 13, 2017 6:45 pm
Posted: Oct 13, 2017 6:15 pm
Franck Khalfoun's Amityville: The Awakening is, according to the press materials, the 10th canonical film in a long-running central Amityville series, a franchise of films that has wended its way calmly and unobtrusively through the history of horror movies without much notice. While the 1979 film The Amityville Horror, based on Jay Anson's notorious “true story” of a real-life haunting in the titular New York town, is considered to be something of a minor horror classic, few of the film's many sequels, reboots, and spinoffs have left much impression in people's minds (Amityville II: The Possession being, perhaps, the one exception, if only for its incestuous underpinnings).
Amityville: The Awakening, while largely a generic haunting film without much in the way of a hook beyond its famous setting, can at least claim to be one of the more watchable Amityville films, for whatever that praise may be worth. Awakening boasts decent production values, a notable cast that includes Jennifer Jason Leigh and Kurtwood Smith, and a few fleeting moments of palpable, spooky atmosphere. And while Awakening never manages to move the needle anywhere past the most basic baseline reading, it is perhaps the best Amityville film since 1983.
Awakening stars Bella Thorne as Belle, a stereotypical broody Goth teen whose doting mother (Leigh) has moved her, her younger sister (Mckenna Grace), and her comatose twin brother James (Cameron Monaghan) into the infamous 112 Ocean Ave. house in the hopes that the new setting will revive her son. James, a frightening, skeletal figure, is a dark specter that hangs over the family. Mom believes he can still recover, but his sisters have largely accepted that James left them long ago. It's during the heady and serious conversations about James that Awakening threatens to break into something salient and poignant.
Amityville: The Awakening was completed in 2014, but was shelved for three years due to various distribution problems. It is now finally been made available for free on Google Play in advance of a proper theatrical release on October 28th. (It will also be available on Blu-ray and DVD on November 14.) Incidentally, in the three years it took this f...
Amityville: The Awakening has a good cast, and, if viewed by a group of rowdy friends late at night, may certainly do its due diligence in periodically startling you for 87 minutes, but never manages to transcend its genre in any meaningful way.
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mediocre
Amityville: The Awakening is one of the more watchable Amityville films, for whatever that praise may be worth.
Witney Seibold
- Witney Seibold
In Amityville: The Awakening, Belle (Bella Thorne) and her family move into a new house, but when strange phenomena begin to occur in the house, Belle begins to suspect her Mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh) isn't telling her everything and soon realizes they just moved into the infamous Amityville house. Rentals include 30 days to start watching ...
In Amityville: The Awakening, Belle (Bella Thorne) and her family move into a new house, but when strange phenomena begin to occur in the house, Belle begins to suspect her mother isn't telling her everything. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started. In Amityville: The Awakening, Belle (Bella ...
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Amityville: The Awakening is the twelfth installment in the iconic horror franchise. Starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bella Thorne, Cameron Monaghan, and Mckenna Grace, the movie follows a single mother and her three children as they move into a haunted house in Amityville.
