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(1 - 43) of 43 OFCS Rating: 26% Rotten Page   1   "Punchy, frightening, and far slicker than the original - but for all the refurbishment, something's still not quite right with this haunted house."   Movie Gazette   Anton Bitel "Indescribably nerve-wracking."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker D- "I have a small bit of admiration for a film that actually tries to be worse than Hide and Seek."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 5/10 "Hovering between amusing and entirely unnecessary, the remake of The Amityville Horror is not the flat-out disaster it could have been."   Bloody Disgusting   Brian Juergens D "The new Amityville is the same old circus of cheap shock scares, rambunctious editing, and lukewarm logic."   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf "Most tediously, Kathy's seeming inability to act -- even in defense of her children -- prolongs the tension but weakens the effect."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 3/5 "If you’re to judge Amityville merely by asking the question, is it scary enough?, then yeah, it works."   eFilmCritic.com   David Cornelius A- "Go see it -- the perfect antidote to the overly-intellectual horror films we've suffered lately: a scream-a-minute, lighthearted thriller."   EDGE Boston   David Foucher 1/4 "The remake does absolutely nothing to modify or improve upon its predecessor, which makes it completely pointless."   Cinemaphile.org   David Keyes 3/4 "...if nothing else, The Amityville Horror deserves kudos for eschewing teenagers and self-referential bits of comedy in favor of ambiance and flat-out horror..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 1.5/4 "Why bother ratcheting up suspense with unseen forces and horrors of the psyche when you can just show actors in makeup instructed to look spooooooky?"   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman C "Lots of 'jump' scares accompanied by loud bursts of soundtrack music, creepy dead girls wandering the halls, and almost no actual suspense or horror."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 2/4 "When we hear mom uttering 'he tortured Indians on my land' like an Irish Frontierswoman from the 1800s, its time to wrap things up as quickly as possible"   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress 1.5/4 "Douglas feels like conjuring up a cliched creep show that has all the eerie vibes of a creaking screen door in need of some oil on its rusty hinges."   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng C- "'There are no bad houses, only bad movies.' And this is one of them."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 2/4 "In a ghost story, the narrative doesn't have to be a model of originality or coherence, but it needs to support the scares. In The Amityville Horror, the writing is so bad that it detracts from the 'boo!' moments and creepy interludes."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2.5/4 "there is so much effort to explain everything, to supply reasons for things that don't need them and therefore cannot sustain them, that the film folds in on itself"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 2/5 "A little of The Sixth Sense and a whole lot of nonsense make for a "based on a true story" horror flick that has only a few jolts to its credit."   Netflix   James Rocchi 6/10 "...see if it you’re looking for quickie 'horror fix'..."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 3/4 "Douglas logra varios momentos de tensión en los que, si se va al cine con la suficiente intención de disfrutar la película, llega a generar uno que otro buen susto."   Moviola   Jorge Avila Andrade 3.5/5 "the original wasn't really that great, nor did it have a substantial cult following to justify a remake. So, unusual as it may be, this remake is a much, much better film."   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 3.0/4.0 "... a creepy crowd pleaser... Ryan Reynolds doesn’t waste his shot to go all Nicholson on a helpless family."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 2/5 "One of the funniest films I’ve seen all year."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr D "From the team that decided it was a good idea to remake "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" comes this unpleasant, exploitative and stupid film."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 1.5/5 "An unimaginative rehash."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh "[B]ehind [Reynold’s] empty himbo stare is a lack of talent that is shocking even in an era in which style is valued over substance..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 1/4 "The Amityville Horror throws one gruesome image after another at the audience, without the benefit of any context. It doesn't help that the acting is really bad."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan C- "A redundant round of recycling."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 1.5/4 "A smorgasbord of strobe lights, screeching soundtrack noises, and silly specters."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 2.5/5 "... The Amityville Horror is the best horror movie of the year so far. Faint praise, to be sure, but at least it's R-rated."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 3.5/5 "That it's based on true events makes it much more fascinating, even though the filmmakers have bent the story to fit the structure of a horror film."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 1/5 "Less frightening than just unpleasant."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves C "As a horror movie, it may be barely adequate, but as an Amityville movie, it takes all comers."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux D "a series of disjointed shock scenes that are strung together for a laborious 90 minutes"   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford D "The new “The Amityville Horror” makes its predecessor feel like high art."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 2.5/5 "Staunchly avoids all the things that make a horror movie scary in favor of all the things that make a horror movie obvious and expedient."   eFilmCritic.com   Scott Weinberg 3/4 "On almost every level, this remake is a marked improvement."   Charlotte Weekly   Sean O'Connell 2.5/4 "not really that good but better than the other eight previous movies"   sbs.is   Stefan Birgir Stefansson "This is a slightly better-than-expected remake of the 1979 film of the same name."   Cinefantastique   Steve Biodrowski 4/10 "It's shocky and schlocky, a psychological horror - a real estate nightmare!"   Modamag.com   Susan Granger 0.5/4 "When filmmakers leave nothing to the imagination, you're left with the product of their imaginations."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw 1/4 Read review   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito Read review   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr.  (1 - 43) of 43 OFCS Rating: 26% Rotten Page   1