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I checked spoiler, just to be on the safe side, but not sure if this will contain one or not, but I have to definitely agree with John Zappulla's review!!! OMG!! WTH???? This movie had nothing at all to do with Amitty!!! At least all the other ones they made had the original story line SOMEWHERE in the movie, be it someone mentioning the houses history, etc...but this movie has a new story line, no mention at all about the original, they even had the gull to make a new original and wow.....very very disappointing, not to mention, changing the entire original, making it up, that was bad on its own, but the actors/actresses were ........well, they seemed like they were making up lines or reading them from far away!!! It was awful, it was an insult to the original and all the sequels. Do yourself a favor and skip this movie all together, please!!!!! It wasn't even scary....me being the optimist I am, I tried to finish it thru all the way to the end, but....wow!! I am a huge movie buff and love my horror movies, but even kids would laugh at this one!!! LOL...If u do watch this, just for giggles....because that's what you will get, make sure to remember, you have been warned!! LOL

Not to be confused with Amityville: The Awakening (which is still due for release) Terror, is everything I hate about bad horror movies. It tries to piggy-back on a concept and story that has been done so much better before. Add to that terrible special effects (CG that you can do with Windows at home) and nothing acting by people you can't wait to see die (yet they take forever to do so). Plus, this movie takes 45 MINUTES BEFORE ANYTHING EVEN HAPPENS!

The really sad part is, I was gonna give this film props for the concept (an entire town aware that the house is haunted and evil, yet they allow people to move in, so that they can benefit) and then I remembered, THEY TOTALLY RIPPED THAT S%@T OFF from a much, much, much better movie called We Are Still Here.

Do not waste your time with this. Go watch any other Amityville movie and I promise you, even the crap ones are more entertaining that this.

The Amityville Terror finally ends a long lasting series that spawned seventeen sequels beating out any other franchise, though paranormal activity is well in its way, to be limped along without a coherent story line or interesting material. Once again all ties to the series are cut where the famous legend of the house can be forgotten without an explication and a new family moves unaware of its history. Where New York has palm trees, residents all are in a conspiracy together like a small village and the house burns down instead of being destroyed by demons.

It feels like another remake to the first with a dysfunctional family, an unorthodox triangle with the husband, possession (wouldn't be Amityville without it) and the Defaoe murders being discovered again. It even rushes up the story lines rather it made since or not and the family becomes stronger for it. Lol, I kid you not.

The effects for the most part were awful from strings visible when Windows open, the creepy noises sound like constipation and the fire burning the living room seems like a red bulb lit up. While the actors try to make the most out of the script none truly reach heights not seen before or beat any of the previous poorly written entries caste members. When in doubt it could get worse the music was none existent or flat making you hang your head in shame for renting it.

No more Amityville sequels to ruin an amazing series I thoughtfully enjoyed for the most part. The bad is starting to outweigh the good ones.

The Jacobson family, the only ones in America who don't know the Amityville story, move into "the house." The house needs to be occupied and to kill people. Many of the townsfolk want them to stay there. The film centers around Haley (Nicole Tompkins) the daughter, who does the investigation work while dealing with the "Mean Girls" at high school, and oh yea, a boy.

Compared to the rash of independent low budget films with Amityville in its title, this one was a breath of fresh air, although not the most intense entertaining "B" horror out there. Crystal magic (or is it with a "k"?) seems to work against it.

Guide: 1 F-word. Sex. Nudity (Amanda Barton, Tonya Kay) Filmed in the section of LA that looks like Long Island. 8 stars on the Amityville scale.

Worst movie decision ever. My roommate and I were expecting more scarier scenes like the conjuring or sinister type of horror/pop-out/ makes you jump, sadly that didn't happen at all in the movie. Our interest for this movie went from a 100 to 0 real quick. The movie effects weren't the best. Some of the scenes made no sense at all, so yeah. Also this is definitely not a kid/family/teenage(16 and under) movie, some nudity will appear. So please don't watch as a family. Overall, I wouldn't So don't waste your time or money on this movie.

The poster for this movie features Disneyland Paris's Phantom Manor attraction with a few Photoshopped tweaks. No worries - it isn't the house from the original film or even the one used in this movie.

However, the actual house used in The Amityville Terror is the same house used to shoot the interiors for Amityville: The Evil Escapes. And Amanda Barton, who wrote and acted in this, was part of the wardrobe crew for a movie called Exorcism: The Possession of Gail Bowers. That movie used the house from the 2005 The Amityville Horror remake. Man - these films are becoming incestuous and I'm not just talking about the antics between Sonny and Patricia in Amityville II: The Possession.

What this movie is about is the house in Amityville that Jessica and Todd Jacobson, their daughter Hailey and troubled aunt Shae (Barton) have moved into. Right away, Shae starts acting strangely, probably because there was a kid who used to live in this house that burned his baby brother in a bathtub full of acid. Obviously, Amityville movies have upped the ante from the simple shotgun.

They set up that Hailey can use a crossbow, which is a good thing, because she fulfills the Chekov's gun promise that this early reveal proposes.

Look, if you have a troubled marriage and family issues, I've found that moving to a haunted house is the worst thing possible. It doesn't solve problems. It just creates more of them. And don't sleep with anyone you meet inside that house that isn't your wife - well, sometimes even if it is your wife.

Maybe don't just watch Amityville movies. Then again, I'm doing an entire week of them, so allow me to take the pain for you, dear reader.