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Review of The Amityville Asylum

Initial Thought: Phew only three more of these to go. I can't wait to end this series. The only one that even looks good is the one coming next year. This one looks like a student project. Well at least it promises to consistently be inconsistent. The least promising thing here though is that this took only eleven days to film. Well I guess it's time to suffer.

Characters/Acting: Kenton Hall has been in some major features and is probably the biggest person here. Some others have been in notable stuff like Muppets Most Wanted etc. Wow Kenton Hall has such a horrible looking beard here. He is also one of the most unlikeable characters here. Delaney's tattoos looked more like sharpie writing more than anything else. Other than that besides the patients he was the only character I really had any interest in. When he gets killed I didn't even care what else happened. He was the only thing that had my interest. The acting was pretty dreadful with the only exceptions I guess being Sadie, Delaney, and Dennis.

Story: This takes place in an Amityville Asylum. I'm sure if this had a bigger budget and more creative minds it could be quite a fun watch. It starts off with four minute long credits during a too dark too see anything re-imagining of the DeFeo shootings once again. Haha are you kidding me with that sneezing scene!? In fact a lot of this movie is hard to see. I mean that is one way to make a bad movie even worse. Only one scene here I thought was kind of creepy was a character saying his skin was too tight. The extremely predictable twist was executed so poorly. It kind of confuses you because everything that happens involving it pretty much makes no sense nor does it even validate it. Are you kidding me with that ending?!

Directing/Writing: Andrew Jones usually writes sequels, but he directs his original ideas. This is the only sequel he has written and directed for any series. It's really hard to believe this was made in 2013! The quality here is really awful and makes it so hard to watch it straight through. Andrew Jones really needs to improve his skills or just stop. The cameraman also seemed like he didn't understand how a camera works.

Final Thought: This was shot on a $20 thousand budget and it is way too noticeable. I doubt it even made that money back. This was extremely lazy and had some truly awful work behind the camera (including the directing and writing). I thought Haunting was the worst of the series, but this took the cake by far. It was extremely difficult to finish this one. Do not watch this by any means even if you are going through the series like I am.
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Added by BAMF
8 years ago on 6 June 2015 10:34