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[DVD Review] ‘The Amityville Haunting’ Is “Terrible”
Now on DVD and Netflix from Asylum is The Amityville Horror rip-off, The Amityville Haunting, Geoff Meed’s found footage take on the supernatural franchise from the ’70s. Brad McHargue, who liked Paranormal Entity , absolutely hated this knockoff.
“Asylum has been churning out found footage and mockumentary-style horror flicks, and with ‘The Amityville Haunting’, they have finally reached their apex of terribleness.”
You’ll find the entire review by clicking the title above. What did you think of it?
Are you ready to go back?
After a record-breaking box office run and an extended cut re-release, A24 and director Kane Parsons’ Backrooms is heading home to Digital.
Backrooms will be available to rent or buy this Tuesday, July 14.
In the film, Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in Backrooms as the owner of Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire, who discovers a strange doorway in the basement of the furniture showroom. He sets out to explore the mysterious, liminal space, walking headfirst into a creepypasta nightmare.
Renate Reinsve (A Different Man) also stars in Backrooms.
Will Soodik wrote the screenplay.
I wrote in my review, “Backrooms is at once complex and sparse, but never repetitive. It might be set in 1990, but it effectively captures modern anxieties and isolation in a way that frequently makes your skin crawl. While the journey ultimately loses steam by its cryptic end, Parsons’ visual representation of the human psyche disturbs like no other.”
YouTube prodigy Kane Parsons makes his feature directorial debut based on his creepypasta-inspired video series, which debuted in 2022 and has amassed over 190 million views to date.