Lame.
It had me until it started in on all the explanations with the indians and shit. Gee, never heard any of that before.
The acting was serviceable to terrible. That kid, Billy, ugh. the chick that played Kathy, hated her on 'Alias' hate her in this.
Van Reynolds is on the verge of becoming the new Shatner. Hammm-meeeee.
The jumpy moments were cool, but not enough to sustain this piece.
As usual, my problem with this recent slew of remakes is that the original is still fresh in my mind. "Dawn of the Dead" was the sole exception as that was a fucking fantastic movie.
The original Amity is not all that good, but it did create a spooky atmosphere where the new one failed to do. Using the original house helped too.
With all of that, the worst sin committed is that the tag line keeps saying it;s based on a true story. That's bullshit. The Defeos murders really did happen, but it stops there. The son killed his family not because he saw demons or ghosts, but because he hated his father and wanted his inheritence. They put the D in dysfuction as its revealed that Defeo Junior was a bully in school, constantly fought with his father and used heroin daily. Compelling stuff that needs to be told instead of all this made up bullshit with the Lutzes and their dime-store novel ghost stories.
For those that don't know, the Lutzes have recanted their story. The Histroy channel did an outstanding documentary on this phenomenon several years ago debunking this whole thing as the hoax it was. The Lutzes made it all up and made millions from it. Author, Jay Anson wrote the best-selling novel knowing full-well that it was total bullshit. As a book, its a great read, but asking the reader to believe any of it is distasteful.
It had me until it started in on all the explanations with the indians and shit. Gee, never heard any of that before.
The acting was serviceable to terrible. That kid, Billy, ugh. the chick that played Kathy, hated her on 'Alias' hate her in this.
Van Reynolds is on the verge of becoming the new Shatner. Hammm-meeeee.
The jumpy moments were cool, but not enough to sustain this piece.
As usual, my problem with this recent slew of remakes is that the original is still fresh in my mind. "Dawn of the Dead" was the sole exception as that was a fucking fantastic movie.
The original Amity is not all that good, but it did create a spooky atmosphere where the new one failed to do. Using the original house helped too.
With all of that, the worst sin committed is that the tag line keeps saying it;s based on a true story. That's bullshit. The Defeos murders really did happen, but it stops there. The son killed his family not because he saw demons or ghosts, but because he hated his father and wanted his inheritence. They put the D in dysfuction as its revealed that Defeo Junior was a bully in school, constantly fought with his father and used heroin daily. Compelling stuff that needs to be told instead of all this made up bullshit with the Lutzes and their dime-store novel ghost stories.
For those that don't know, the Lutzes have recanted their story. The Histroy channel did an outstanding documentary on this phenomenon several years ago debunking this whole thing as the hoax it was. The Lutzes made it all up and made millions from it. Author, Jay Anson wrote the best-selling novel knowing full-well that it was total bullshit. As a book, its a great read, but asking the reader to believe any of it is distasteful.
