Back in January Dimension Films committed to a full theatrical release for Amityville: The Awakening, the official new sequel to The Amityville Horror.
Dimension will release the sequel, directed by P2 and Maniac‘s Franck Khalfoun, on April 1, 2016.
There’s been a ton of tinkering going on, but at the time it had received an R-rating by the MPAA for ”for strong horror violence and for language.”
We’ve been told that last week Dimension tested another new cut of the film, and with it comes news that it has been resubmitted and approved for a PG-13 rating for “horror violence and terror, suggestive images, brief language and thematic material.” (Thanks to @leonardvaxx21 for the heads up.)
There’s nothing telling in that information, and typically it’s important for a film to get a PG-13 over an R for better box office results. I’m not a huge fan of a film being pigeon-holed into a rating, but we need to remember that a PG-13 isn’t always bad. Amityville is a supernatural horror film, and the odds that there was something important edited out to receive the PG-13 is slim to none. This isn’t Friday the 13th…
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In Amityville: The Awakening, “Belle, her little sister, and her comatose twin brother move into a new house with their single mother Joan in order to save money to help pay for her brother’s expensive healthcare. But when strange phenomena begin to occur in the house including the miraculous recovery of her brother, Belle begins to suspect her Mother isn’t telling her everything and soon realizes they just moved into the infamous Amityville house.”
Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bella Thorne, McKenna Grace, Cameron Monaghan, Taylor Spreitler, Thomas Mann and Jennifer Morrison star.
