What happens when you expect nothing from a movie, but then get even less than that? Well...you get a piece of crap like this.
This is barely an attempt at horror, with barely any scares, and it drips the blood of the series' nostalgia more than anything else. The plot is severely weak, and it's worsened by the fact that it pulls the other movies into the story. No, I don't mean just by referencing the events, I mean they literally reference three of the movies here - one of the characters holds up DVDs of Amityville 1, 2, and the remake and suggests they watch them at 3:15 am. Huh? What?? That is the point where they lost me, and the stupid story took a deep six right down the well to hell right then and there. Speaking of which, that comes into play here yet again (people who have owned the real house have to be just shaking their heads by now) and hey guess what? That's the source of the evil again! Wow, didn't see that coming.
The acting is pretty meh, and all I can assume is the actors all had some bills to pay to even participate here. The house looks too neat, new, and clean to have any menace to it. It's also completely physically positioned incorrectly, made worse by the fact that they show photos at the start of the movie of the actual house where you can clearly see how close the neighbors are. And to think that all the other supposed occupants wouldn't have pitched that stupid "high hopes" sign into the trash is completely pathetic. The musical score, while mot bad for what it is, is no match for the creepy, squeaky strings and children's voices that Lalo Schifrin made work far more effectively almost 40 years ago now.
There is basically no point to this movie. It's nothing you haven't seen before, quite literally, and it's not worth your time. Don't bother, and I hope the studios all don't bother with future installments either.
