Amityville: The Awakening
Directed by Franck Khalfoun
- horror
The story
Belle, her little sister, and her comatose twin brother move into a new house with their single mother in order to save money to help pay for her brother's expensive healthcare. But when strange phenomena begin to occur including the miraculous recovery of her brother, Belle begins to suspect her mother isn't telling her everything and soon learns they moved into the infamous Amityville house.
What it’s like
Dim, cramped rooms lit by flashlight beams, hallway lamps and a cold blue-grey wash, with the camera drifting through doorways and staying a beat too long on empty corners. The palette runs to muddy greens and sickly fluorescent whites, and the house feels damp and close, with dust and peeling paint in the foreground. The score relies on low drones and sudden stingers that punch the jump scares. Pacing builds in slow, watchful stretches before tipping into sharp, loud shocks. The tone is dread-heavy and unsettled, with a sense of a family pulled apart by grief and money and a house that seems to be feeding on them. Intensity is high: frequent jump scares, creepy imagery, and several bloody, violent moments that land hard, though the gore is not constant. It suits a Halloween night, a haunted-house mood, or watching with friends who want to be scared. It is for horror fans who enjoy supernatural scares and don't need gentleness or subtlety.
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