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The Amityville Horror (1979) https://letterboxd.com/smudgeefc1985...yville-horror/
Horror-tober 11
Interesting watching this now while I've been watching Hill House on Netflix...I don't think this does quite as good a job on the evil house genre, but I don't think it's a total bust either.
Overall, I think it's a bit of a mess. A lot of ideas, some of them good, dome bad, all thrown together with a bit of a messy outcome. There are bits that happen and I'm wondering why the hell it's there. I've said before that I have a thing for horrors that make good use of religion, thus has some good elements of that but I think massively underused. The jump scares are actually pretty effective, and the music does a very good job of creating an unnerving atmosphere. James Brolin also deserves credit for his performance, as his physical and mental deterioration are very creepy, ypire genuinely unsure just how insane he has gone.
Overall, a bit of a jumble. Some good bits, but as a sum of its parts, it had potential to be much better.
Horror-tober 11
Interesting watching this now while I've been watching Hill House on Netflix...I don't think this does quite as good a job on the evil house genre, but I don't think it's a total bust either.
Overall, I think it's a bit of a mess. A lot of ideas, some of them good, dome bad, all thrown together with a bit of a messy outcome. There are bits that happen and I'm wondering why the hell it's there. I've said before that I have a thing for horrors that make good use of religion, thus has some good elements of that but I think massively underused. The jump scares are actually pretty effective, and the music does a very good job of creating an unnerving atmosphere. James Brolin also deserves credit for his performance, as his physical and mental deterioration are very creepy, ypire genuinely unsure just how insane he has gone.
Overall, a bit of a jumble. Some good bits, but as a sum of its parts, it had potential to be much better.