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Initial Thought: I think this series hit a new low with this one by allowing The Asylum to take charge. I expect this to be quite horrid and boring.
Characters/Acting: I am not familiar with any of the actors. A few of them have been in other Asylum films which isn't a good sign. Looks we are continuing the no priests trend here. The dad wasn't too bad until close to the end. The women were pretty much something to look at, but nothing else really beyond that. I kind of liked the main kid and the dad's friend Cut. Cut is a pretty lame name, but he was a decent character. The acting is hard to really consider here with the awful script they had to work with. I say they tried their best except for the youngest daughter.
Story: This time we get the angle of found footage. We start off with a group of kids that seem to not even matter to the actual premise of the movie. They add two random sex scenes with these teens that just seemed like a way to try to grab the audience's attention. The deaths are sudden and they also seemed like they were there to draw you in. If that was the intention they really failed. There are way too many close ups here of absolutely nothing throughout. Why are people always telling owners of the house what to do in these movies? I mean come on that is just stupid. If you try to do that to me in my home I'm kicking you out. I don't care who you are. That "blood" was clearly ketchup! I think it was pointless to talk outside so people couldn't hear them talking if the security camera could still catch their voices quite loud and clear. I don't understand why Lori is disregarded twice through dialogue she should have been involved in. The part were the dad freaks out was I think unintentionally hilarious. The death scenes were pretty disappointing except for the final one which I absolutely didn't see coming. There are descriptions of them that make you really wonder what actually happened.
Directing/Writing: This actor Geoff Meed's directorial debut. Anything else behind the screen was mostly writing. Here it seems that no one is credited for writing. I guess they wanted to make it feel more authentic. It could also mean the writer didn't want to be known for his involvement here. It looks like they didn't pay attention when making the coroner's reports because Tyler's age doesn't match up. If it is 2008 here and Tyler was born in 1995 that would make him 13 not the listed 14.
Final Thought: It is really poorly edited. I swear the dialogue must have been ab libbed. This was very much a Paranormal Activity ripoff with the Amityville name tacked on. The house didn't even look a thing like the actual house it is supposed to be representing. If this was actually real then I feel bad for how stupid some members of the family were. This was pretty bad. It had just about no redeeming factors. This shouldn't even be considered part of the franchise, but it unfortunately is. Do not watch this as it is completely unworthy.
