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Amityville Poltergeist
No Sleep / Don't Sleep

USA 2020
produced by
Airisa Durand for 7th Street Productions
directed by Calvin Morie McCarthy
starring Parris Bates, Sydney Winbush, Rebecca Morse (= Rebecca Kimble), Airisa Durand, Jon Ashley Hall, Conor Jesse Sass (= Conor Austin), Jason Reynolds, Calvin Morie McCarthy, Alex Onda, Natalie Lucia (voice)
story by Calvin Morie McCarthy, screenplay by Calvin Morie McCarthy, Jon Ashley Hall, music by Joel Whited, special makeup effects makeup by Zach Smith, visual effects by Justin Kuhn

Amityville

review by
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To make a few much-needed extra bucks, Jim (Parris Bates) accepts a job as housesitter, looking after elderly Eunice's (Rebecca Morse) place for a few days while her son (Jon Ashley Hall) takes her for some medical treatment. Eunice warns Jim ominously of some evil contained in the house, but how bad can it be, really?

Pretty bad actually, as he finds out in the first night, when he has a nightmare he has a hard time waking up from about a ghost girl wandering the hallways of the place, trying to sneak into his room - but hey, it was just a dream, and maybe it was the old lady's warning that triggered it - but still it felt mighty real. The next night, Jim has his best friend Collin (Conor Jesse Sass) and Collin's girlfriend Alyson (Sydney Winbush) over, which ought to calm him down, but really only opens another set of problems as Alyson tells Jim she wants to have sex with him, and he's definitely attracted to her, but Collin's his best friend, and he just adores Alyson ...

But what happened in this house anyway that makes it so creepy? Well, Eunice has always felt something evil in the place, but her daughter Donna (Airisa Durand) has dismissed her suspicions as literal old wives tales. But not being taken seriously only caused Eunice to obtain a gun (through illegal channels) - and where there's a gun, there's often gunfire, and if aimed right, guns can be quite deadly, too ...

 

Now if you expect a scare-a-minute haunted house flick when going into Amityville Poltergeist, you'll probably disappointed, as this is a rather slowburn piece of horror that leaves its actual threat diffuse until late in the film and plays not only with two different, interwoven time levels, but also with different levels of reality, as it's never quite sure where the nightmares begin and end in this one. But while the plot might be intentionally confusing at times, interesting and welcomely fallible characters played by a solid cast, and an atmosphere-focused directorial effort make the film into a coherent whole, and rather fascinating genre entertainenment for sure.

 

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