The Amityville Horror (2005)

Hey readers,

Today I present the remake of the original Amityville movie of the 70's, The Amityville Horror (2005). It is very hard to come across a good horror film that actually has the capacity to scare the living crap outta people. This movie did a fairly good job. I remember the first time I watched this movie. I didn't sleep that night. Anyways, this film is a loose representation of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, based on the man of the house going totally cuckoo and wanting to kill his family. The makers of the movie have made the movie much more violent than The Shining. The starting of the movie and the ending scenes are pretty violent and are recommended for people above 15 years.

The starting of the movie shows the Defeo family getting killed by the possessed guy. He kills his three younger siblings and his parents by shooting them in the head while they are asleep and shooting his youngest sister Jodie while he was hiding in the closet. The brutal murder of the children is too scary to watch and the director probably succeeded in scaring the audience outta the cinema hall in the first 5 minutes of the movie! Anyways, one year later, a happy family moves into the same home unaware of the terrifying experience that would follow. Initially happy, the kind and funny stepfather, the mother and the three kids are excited about their mansion-like new home. A few days pass and the step-father starts acting weird. He gets angry with the kids and gives then torturous punishments. The little girl starts seeing the ghost of Jodie, the girl murdered. Once the mother realizes their deadly mistake of moving into the possessed home, she tries to convince her husband to move out. But it was too late as her possessed husband had already started to plot the murder of his family.

Notably terrifying scenes:

• The scene where the little boy Micheal goes to the bathroom and while washing his hands a grotesque figure is shown behind him, with blood coming out of its mouth.
• The scene where the little girl is standing on the topmost part of the roof, waiting to  jump.
• The part where the past activity occurring in the torture room of the basement is shown. I do not wish to enlist those gruesome details.
• The ending where the stepfather runs after his family to kill them.
• This ain't a scene, but the phrase "Kill 'em, Katch 'em" is terrifying.

The movie is to be considered a treat to those horror movie fans and it will prove to be a good watch to those people who have the guts to watch a terrifying movie.

Signing off for today.

Monica