Amityville: The Awakening (2017)

The Bummer Boys are back in the trenches covering absolute Blumhouse horror movie trash. How can such a good cast and an arguably decent director create such a disaster of a movie? What is the nature of the red room? Does this mean Harry Potter is a demon? Why did Ed and Loraine Warren never investigate that little slippery wizard? WHY, OH WHY, would anyone attempt to make this movie a meta sequel to The Amityville Horror (1979)? All this and more on this week’s episode as they delve into the 2017 Blumhouse horror movie AMITYVILLE: THE AWAKENING!

 

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. It is the tenth installment of the Amityville film series and a direct sequel/metafilm taking place in the "real world" outside of the continuity of the series which establishes The Amityville Horror (1979), the sequels from 1982 to 1996, and the 2005 remake of the original film as fiction. Its plot follows a teenager who moves into 112 Ocean Avenue with her family, who shortly find themselves haunted by a demonic entity using her brain-dead twin brother's body as a vessel.

Originally titled Amityville: The Lost Tapes, it was announced in May 2011, and was initially conceived as a found footage-style film and a separate entry in the franchise. However, the studio abandoned the film's original idea, and hired Khalfoun to write and direct a new draft in early-2012. Filmed in 2014, the film suffered numerous release delays before finally being released for free on Google Play on October 12, 2017.