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I gave it a 3 for the effort. I been sitting through low budget films as a birthday challenge. Never watched a Tubi original film. My problem with it calling itself a "Original" film, is that it wasn't original. There's a crap ton of Amityville remakes and Murder house types, that if u saw 1 you seen them all. I gave it propr for not waiting on kills, but the intelligence of the other characters was highly questionable. People started dropping like dead flies n they kept choosing to stay? Yeah right! I would've be looooooong gone! They do the usual: hire a youtube ghost hunter, then a priest and yeah they all pay the price but they stay in house like the ghost is their home dawg. Movie also waste a big chunk on a couple arguing about the EX still there and obviously still in love with the guy.

Acting is ok for B movie area.

The deaths are generic at best. Nothing creative.

The ghost? They look like super low budget. Like they used 2D image n layered it on top of the film. It had some fxs but nothing to write home about.

By then end on the movie i wished i had a beer in me. This movie is cringe worthy. You like low budget, eh story and just want to burn through a couple hours of boredom or u want to have some background noise while u do shores? This is for u. I walked out a couple times and didn't miss a thing. Lol.

My expectations for any new movie with Amityville in the title are generally low, and knowing this one was brought to us by a free streaming service I figured it would look low budget. And I was right, it does, and the script is nothing more than serviceable, paint-by-numbers, haunted house horror fare. The set-up is minimal before things begin going bump in the night, and the swift pacing remains fairly consistent throughout the brief 90-minute runtime. What works best here is the cast, each of whom had to realize this project would be nothing more than a marginal paycheck. They all turn in credible performances considering the rather thin writing. A no-harm, no-foul Amityville movie that does nothing more than pass the time on a rainy day.

A year or so ago, I decided to binge watch all the Amityville Horror films, or that is, the related-type films to that 1979 original that I could remember seeing in video stores back in the day and find those same movies that went directly to videocassette in that amazing era of the late 1980s through the 1990s.

These were the films that never went to the theater, and were never intended to do so.

Oh, they were all stupid. Every single one of them. All found mostly on the fantastic channel of Tubi (Love Tubi!) All films weak as expected, not scary, with bad story, and mostly poor performances, but still charming in a way with young, up and coming actors, or older actors just trying to stay busy or relevant. I even watched the 1990 version with the exact same title as here, and another version about a haunted lamp, yes, haunted lamp (Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes) it was by and far the worst, and yet neither of these films were close to as bad as this.

This is awful.

Miserable.

It's boring.

Bad acting.

Worse editing. (In the beginning, I couldn't tell if they were moving in or out)

It's bright. Yes, bright. The whole movie is way too lit (and not in a good way!) You can tell they were probably filming at night but blasting in spotlights through the windows to make it look like daytime.

People die unexpectedly and horrifically and none of the characters are frantically trying to reach emergency services or call anybody. Where's law enforcement? Family members and relatives afterwards? A funeral?

The human relationships are unbelievable, from friends to roommates to lovers. There is no chemistry amongst any of the parties involved.

Hey, I know this is low to no budget and it's Amityville #376, but that still doesn't exclude all of the above crimes if not transgressions.

As a matter of fact, this is where those little things like believability and emotional investment could have flourished here on screen.

In searching for this new title of this long, long, longtime franchise, unbelievably (maybe not so unbelievably) I came across other, more intriguing titles than this, such as Amityville Karen (Yes.), and Amityville in Space (Also, a definitive yes.) So, skip this chapter, either watch the 1990 film of the same title (which is so bad, it's good-this is just plain bad-there's a difference!), or watch one of these more interestingly titled recent productions.

We all know this infinite trail of silly sequels will never terrify as the original did.

But this 2023 Amityville Curse is not a horror film, and should you describe it as such to your friends in discussions, when mentioning horror, please place it in air quotes.

I will also note here that I would gladly contribute to any group funding of a future production of Amityville Karen In Space.

No surprise this is another hopeless instalment of the schlocky Amityville Horror movie series. The first one from 1979 is far superior than the rest, but that's not exactly a compliment. Granted, for its time it had good points but it didn't work for me like Halloween or The Exorcist. This one, Amityville Curse actually starts off ok. I liked how they took the pus out of the story and just went off on a different tangen and at least tried to offer something different. The dialogue and acting were ticking more boxes than not for the first 45, but after that, the whole thing crashes down the chimney and the staircase into the red hellgate basement room.

Another Tubi original that fails to entertain or keep me watching the movie. Struggled to get through the hour and a half running time. Actors don't do a great job, the director doesn't do a great job, and the writers didn't do a great job. Starting to lose hope that there are any originals on Tubi that aren't z level schlock.

Giving the film two stars, which is kind of harsh but I'm getting burned by too many shoddy films. I force myself to sit through them in the hopes that something will shift later on. That almost never happens. If a movie is riding on an old actor or a popular name for people to fork over their time, it's never worth that time.

Right, well I have to admit that I wasn't exactly harboring the biggest of expectations to this 2023 horror movie titled "The Amityville Curse", given the fact that the many "Amityville" movies, since the original and the remake, have been utter rubbish. Yet, I still opted to sit down and give the movie a fair chance.

And sure, I managed to sit through all 90 minutes of the movie, though I was only slightly entertained. Yeah, the storyline in "The Amityville Curse", as written by Dennis Heaton and Hans Holzer, wasn't exactly the best of storylines, nor the most thrilling either. Sure, it was watchable for what it turned out to be, but it was by no means a great movie.

The acting performances in "The Amityville Curse" were fair enough. There was only a single performer on the screen that I was familiar with, and that was Brendan Fehr, and he was hardly in the movie.

Visually then you're not in for anything grand. The movie does make use of special effects, but they are not impressive, nor among the worst of effects I have seen in movies.

All in all, then "The Amityville Curse", from director Éric Tessier, was a bland movie that came and went without leaving much of any noise. It is a movie that is very easily forgotten within a short time after having seen it. And it is essentially just another "Amityville" run-of-the-mill movie, that is nowhere near the level of the original or the remake.

My rating of director Eric Tessier's 2023 movie "The Amityville Curse" lands on a generous four out of ten stars.

The main characters fan girl over the lore and history of the house, taking away from unexpected terror. We know exactly what to expect with this movie. There is no build up to the suspense and you can expect supernatural occurrences at the start of the film. The story takes too long to really tell us any significant background on the group of friends to get us to like them enough to care about their pending demise. When the spooky stuff begins, it's more childs play with no direction. It's jump scare after jump scare. The CGI is very low quality and I feel like there were things they could have done practically with the use of effects makeup.

The Amityville franchise has always been an "also ran." This movie really showcases why this series is largely ignored. While the idea of a haunted house with a disturbing legacy is a trope, this production is marred by far more weaknesses.

The cast is merely "ok." The characters are a bit of an odd mix of semi-obnoxious to bland. All-told, no character is engaging or memorable - and I'm including the house itself as a character! This movie rests on the laurels of previous history and films, as a kind of narrative shortcut. The dark past of the house is only casually referenced, so viewers are expected to see "the house" as a credible threat by virtue of the other films or folklore.

Once past the opening sequence, the film plods about. The majority of the early chills come from poorly executed jump scares; namely things falling off shelves. A few ghostly whispers are oddly explicit, the words are crystal clear, and just a bit too well-spoken. Rather than conveying vague suggestions or even indecipherable murmurs, the whispers deliver Scrabble-worthy vocabulary.

The special effects are laughable. I am usually quite forgiving of SFX that are restricted by a paltry budget. In the case of "Curse," the money was not well-spent. The ghostly presences are distractingly poorly depicted.

All told, this film is just incompetent. It's not able to build a necessary sense of dread or mystery about the House. The cast are uninteresting, and the chills are poorly executed all around. While the Amityville franchise has never been particularly strong, this entry is a straight-up waste of your time.

And by cursed I mean that the only horrors were sound/editing because it's in English yet it was some of the worst lip syncing I have ever seen because the dialogue is basically 2 seconds too song or 2 seconds too late and did not match at all when they were speaking.

SFX? Cursed. It's nothing but a blur tool from a cheap mobile app that edits images, paired with some color inversions throughout the whole entire movie.

Acting? Cursed.

Sound effects? Cursed. When you first hear the voice/voices of the entity speaking you are most likely going to literally laugh out loud.

Unique? Cursed. There is not ONE thing unique or original about this. Absolutely zero. It's like they researched and made a list of every single cliche horrors can fall victim to, and then categorically implemented them in the move.

Also anything 'Amityville' is tired, boring, 100% predictable. The Amityville plot and all things related should lave been paid to rest YEARS ago. It's done. It's over. There is nothing left. It's all been done before. Let it go people! Horror has been destroyed by the entire industry. Let horror rest in its box 6 feet below. Let us mourn the loss!

Moving into an infamous house, a group of friends look at it as a means of buying a cheap piece of property to then be able to flip it, but the more they stay there the more devious and violent their lives become as they start to believe something supernatural is in the house that is out to kill them.

Overall, this is a pretty solid genre effort. One of the better features here is the generally enjoyable setup that manages to get things going on a high note. Delving into the backstory of the house only briefly as the new occupants move in almost immediately, this avoids all the pointless retreads of the popular myth and allows the atmosphere of the house to work itself out quite nicely. A lot of the work in this early section here, focusing on the series of strange encounters that take place here as a means of setting up the various interconnecting storylines that follow including personal jealousy, professional hardships, and the various strained relationships it causes that develop over time so everything that arises serves the film well. That brings about the series of interactions inside the house that highlight the supernatural living inside. Starting with flickering lights, tripping over objects that weren't there, and things moving when they shouldn't, the escalation into more overt supernatural activity involving the dreams of the spirits coming to torment the one victim, the series of deaths that take place to the figures who come to visit or the increasing number of the group who stay there. As most of these incidents focus on the usual series of whispering voices in the background exerting influence over them so that the incidents are filled with misguided motivations, there's a fun chaotic energy at play here that leads into the frantic finale. This has the most action trying to bring things to a head as there are some fantastic confrontations, some fun reveals, and much more going on here that ends the film at a high point. This one doesn't have much to hold it back but there are some issues present. The main drawback to this is the rampant sense of stupidity here that keeps them in the house even though someone in the friend group is killed off barely twenty minutes into the film. That happens constantly enough after that point that it's hard to fathom any kind of reality where the immediate thought isn't to leave and just ignore the house based on the severity of the situation and the actions taken here. It never feels logical or reasonable why someone would stay there given the events that have taken place, especially since it pulls the death card out so early which is a fantastic shock but never seems to be played properly as that would seem to showcase the fact that there's something there and not dealing with it is a big issue to overcome. The other factor with this one is the major part of the finale which may have some great points about it but also has a big drawback to it. The whole series of revelations brought up here is fine enough as a means of continuing the action, but there's also the fact that this brings about so many unnecessary factors to try to make this feel shocking or clever. Instead, this one tends to go on a bit too long by having so many of these ideas at play that there's the chance it can also wear out its welcome. As well, there's also the film's somewhat flat and low-budget look that might make this a hard one to get through as this is all quite obvious from the start and is what brings it down.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language and Violence.