Review – The Amityville Haunting

The Amityville thing gets the Paranormal Activity treatment, swiftly turning into a worst-of-both-worlds production. Other than being set in the notorious DeFeo/Lutz house, it has only the most marginal connections to the Amityville thread. Nor does it take advantage of low-budget benefits such as the freedom to include chills that an expensive production wouldn’t have the guts to try. Everything here is mediocre booga-booga crap. Indeed, the story can’t even stay true to its supposed “real footage” format, frequently including shots and edits that would have been unlikely if not completely impossible for a teenager with a camcorder to have captured. The result is one of those pictures that in no way rewards the amount of attention you have to pay to it to even see the spooky stuff. Wish I’d skipped it