Well, Ill give you guys this much, you were right. I saw the Amityville Horror remake at a midnight showing last night and lets say it did cause me to have trouble sleeping.....................
No, not from fear, but from the unbelievable pile of steaming crap I saw playing out before me on the big screen. Thank God I didn't have to pay for this drek, (I used the free ticket that came with the Amityville Horror DVD Box Set), or for the very first time in my life I not only would have demanded a refund, I might have sued for damages. I am so dissappointed by this that I just know this is what will happen when The Warriors remake comes out. I will wait for months with anticipation and when the big moment finally comes I'll alternate between disbelief in what I'm seeing and entertaining thoughts of gouging out my own eyes so I don't have to watch any more. I will never EVER trust a movie trailer again, as this movie's trailer was far more enjoyable. I apologize to anyone who I tried to convince that this piece of crap might be good and hope you read this before it's too late. I also think that in another thread I wrote (after seeing the trailer) that I wished the same director would do the Warriors remake. I would now rather cut out my tounge with a pair of rusty hedgeclippers than ever say that again.
I would also like to say I completely understand the ranting the past couple of days from George Lutz. The way he is portrayed in this film is a crime and I hope he sues MGM & Dimension for every penny they have for slander. The poor man is literally portrayed as a child abusing, murderous phsycopath who chops up the family dog, forces his young stepson to hold logs between his hands
while he chops them in half with his trusty axe, and hides in the basement for much of the family's 28 day ordeal. That is until the final day when he is chopping through doors ala Jack Torrance in The Shining, chasing his family around with a shotgun and trying to behead his wife with a motorboat propeller.
If anything, Dimension made a better remake of the Shining than The Amityville Horror. Maybe that was the book the writers read by mistake when they vowed they were going to remain faithful to it.
