Amityville: The Awakening

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Amityville: The Awakening

PG-13

2017

1h 25m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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A mother moves with her three children into the notorious, supposedly haunted Amityville house to try using its dark powers to cure her comatose son.

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Katie Rife

AV Club

The script is just as lazy as the acting, leaning on a fitfully applied, Scream-esque meta subplot to justify why the hell we're all here in the first place.

Rated: C-

Oct 26, 2017

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Chuck Bowen

Slant Magazine

The Awakening often feels as if it's starting all over again from scene to scene, drinking in Belle as she wanders one shadowy corridor after another.

Rated: 2/4

Oct 22, 2017

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Joe Lipsett

Bloody Disgusting

The Awakening suffers in large part because Khalfoun sticks to familiar possession tropes, but also because he refuses to embrace the interesting facets of his narrative...The result is bland; this is a movie that just is.

Rated: 2/5

Jul 31, 2023

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Grethe Kemp

Channel24 (South Africa)

She (Bella Thorne) is the clichéd Goth girl incarnate, made even more laughable by the fact that almost no teenager in 2017 still wears the studded belts and corset tops that is Belle's "sad girl" costume.

Rated: 1/5

Jan 7, 2020

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Víctor López G.

Espinof

A vulgar exercise of terror that, despite its defects, manages to stand out from its delectable predecessors. [Full Review in Spanish]

Jul 30, 2019

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Francisco Marinero

El Mundo (Spain)

The director and screenwriter could not be concerned to narratively justify the very obvious incidents. [Full Review in Spanish]

Rated: 1/5

Jun 16, 2018

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Lloyd S

Rubbish blumhouse movie. Not worth watching it.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

05/14/25

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James B

In my opinion it's the best Amityville film as it is a modern sequel with good special effects and a nice meta edge to it like scream.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/03/24

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Tim M

A choppy, inept attempt at resurrecting the franchise, Amityville: The Awakening ought to have stayed dormant.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

06/21/24

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R-T T

Amityville Awakening is an extremely embarrassing movie that I again don't want to comment on

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

03/22/24

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Steve D

quite cheap despite some strong talent.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

11/02/23

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Elvis D

Los eventos ocurridos en Amityville se han convertido en uno de los misterios más populares y escalofriantes que han perdurado por muchísimos años. Se trata de toda una leyenda que desde el asesinato de los DeFeo y la experiencia de los Lutz publicada en un libro ha sido plasmada en el mundo del cine de distintas maneras, convirtiéndose en toda una franquicia. Ahora Blumhouse se tomó la molestia de hacer su propia versión de la escalofriante leyenda. La película va centrada muchos años del famoso suceso y ahora una nueva familia se vuelve blanco del horror sobrenatural que ha llevado muchos años durmiendo. La película tiene el característico aire de Amityville y se trata de otra representación de la maldición que ha marcado Amityville por décadas. Toma un par de conceptos de la primera película que empezó la franquicia y es curioso que la primera película sea incluso vista en el mundo de esta película, aunque sirve para entender el impacto que los sucesos de Amityville tuvieron en este universo ficticio, al igual que en el mundo real. Amityville: The Awakening es un buen regreso a la franquicia para recordar lo fascinante que sigue siendo aquel misterio sobre la casa embrujada de Amityville. Mi calificación final para esta película es un 8/10.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

10/10/23

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Synopsis

A mother moves with her three children into the notorious, supposedly haunted Amityville house to try using its dark powers to cure her comatose son.

Director: Franck Khalfoun
Producer: Jason Blum, Daniel Farrands, Casey La Scala
Screenwriter: Franck Khalfoun
Distributor: Weinstein Co.
Production Co: E1 Entertainment, Miramax, Blumhouse Productions, Dimension Films, LDMP
Rating: PG-13 (Disturbing Horror Violence|Brief Language|Suggestive Images|Terror|Thematic Material)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 28, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): May 22, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA): $742
Runtime: 1h 25m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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