2024 American film
The Amityville Terror Film poster Directed by Michael Angelo Written by Amanda Barton Produced by Justin Jones
Philip J5️⃣ Day
Zeus Zamani Starring Nicole Tompkins
Kaiwi Lyman-Mersereau
Kim Nielsen
Amanda Barton
Trevor Stines
Christy St. John Cinematography Michael S. Ojeda Edited by Michael S. Ojeda5️⃣ Music by Darren Morze Production
companies AZ Film Studios
Marquis Productions
Master Key Productions
Thriller Films Distributed by Uncork'd Entertainment Release date 2 August5️⃣ 2024 ( ) (United States) Running time 84 minutes Country United States Language English
The Amityville Terror is a 2024 American5️⃣ horror film directed by Michael Angelo, and written by Amanda Barton. It was released direct-to-video, and is the sixteenth film5️⃣ to be inspired by Jay Anson's 1977 novel The Amityville Horror.[1] Nicole Tompkins stars as Hailey Jacobson, the daughter of5️⃣ a dysfunctional family that is terrorized by both evil spirits and malicious townspeople after moving into a haunted house in5️⃣ Amityville, New York.[2]
Plot [ edit ]
Jessica and Todd Jacobson, along with their teenage daughter Hailey and troubled aunt Shae, move5️⃣ into a haunted house in Amityville. Shae unknowingly purchases this house from property manager Delilah McAllister. Hailey quickly meets a5️⃣ local teen, Brett, and they develop a relationship. Despite this, Hailey begins to be bullied by classmates Theresa, Sally, and5️⃣ Claire.
While in the bathtub, Shae feels a strange experience, as if her flesh was burning. Proving to be a hallucination,5️⃣ Shae's behavior continues to grow stranger. When relaying this peculiar behavior to Brett, Hailey is introduced to a story about5️⃣ a little boy who used to live in that house. The boy, named Jimmy Oberest, drowned his baby sister in5️⃣ acid before killing his parents.
Mike, Todd's mechanic boss, comes to visit, as he used to date Shae in college. He5️⃣ finds her hovering behind Jessica while holding a scalpel. After this encounter, Mike immediately goes to see Delilah, the property5️⃣ manager, begging her to spare Shae. Delilah refuses this. Later, Mike dies when Todd inadvertently starts a fire in the5️⃣ auto shop. During this, Jessica works in the garden, repeatedly cutting herself and covering her in blood.
Later on, Todd is5️⃣ seen at a bar. While there, Delilah appears and tries to seduce him. When Todd arrives home, he is strangely5️⃣ seduced by his wife, who is revealed to be Shae in a supernatural disguise. Hailey is introduced to Brett's friend5️⃣ Jenny. Jenny is said to be psychic and reluctantly decides to help Hailey and her family by going to their5️⃣ house to cleanse it. Jenny is supernaturally attacked and thrown out an upstairs window as she does so.
Hailey finds her5️⃣ aunt Shae painting with a scalpel from a bag belonging to Dr. Willis R. Cranston. Upon researching Dr. Cranston, Hailey5️⃣ discovers that he disappeared in 2004. Hailey decides to track down David, Willis's brother, who informs Hailey that his brother5️⃣ bought the house from Delilah. Upon finding this out, Hailey breaks into Delilah's home. She finds a file cabinet full5️⃣ of folders with names of the families who had rented the Amityville property and disappeared. Delilah finds Hailey, the latter5️⃣ fleeing to the police station to call her father, telling him to get her mother and aunt and leave. Hailey5️⃣ also calls Brett, informing him about Delilah. Brett reveals that the little boy he was talking about prior, along with5️⃣ his family, practiced black magic in the house. They had opened a portal to Hell. Delilah is uncovered to be5️⃣ Jimmy Oberest's sister, who was not home at the time of Jimmy's murders. Hailey sees two men transporting Jenny's body,5️⃣ cutting her conversation with Brett short in order to follow. Back at the house Shae, fully possessed, attacks Jessica inside5️⃣ the house. Meanwhile, Theresa and her friends confront Brett, badgering him about helping Hailey and getting Jenny involved.
Hailey follows the5️⃣ two men, coming upon a makeshift graveyard. There she notices a marker that is reserved with the Jacobson name. Theresa5️⃣ and her friends confront Hailey, revealing the town's nature and its people. She explains that the townspeople must feed the5️⃣ house, or the evil spirit inside will come after them. Hailey attacks Theresa and her friends, killing one of them5️⃣ while Theresa kills the other for disloyalty. Taunting Hailey, Theresa reveals she has decapitated Brett, which infuriates Hailey. Hailey fights5️⃣ Theresa off, stabbing her and returning to the house. Once home, Hailey finds her parents butchered as Shae leaps to5️⃣ attack her. Shae and Hailey fight, the latter defending herself as she flees around the home. Hailey eventually fires an5️⃣ arrow into Shae's forehead, causing her to combust. This allows Hailey to flee the house.
In the epilogue, Delilah is seen5️⃣ showing the house to the family seen killed in the prologue scene.
Cast [ edit ]
Nicole Tompkins as Hailey Jacobson
Kaiwi Lyman-Mersereau5️⃣ as Todd Jacobson
Kim Nielsen as Jessica Jacobson
Amanda Barton as Shae Jacobson
Trevor Stines as Brett
Christy St. John as Theresa
Tonya Kay as5️⃣ Delilah McCallister
Bobby Emprechtinger as Mike Arkos
Lai-Ling Bernstein as Jenny Chan
Klaudia Kaye as Karen
Korey Knecht as Hank
Sarah Lieving as Mrs. Taylor
Cher5️⃣ Hubsher as Sally
Priscilla Emprechtinger as Claire
Jocelyn Saenz as Faith Douglas
Tommy Nash as Ray Douglas
Kingsley Knecht as Ben Douglas
Philip J Day5️⃣ as David Cranston
Julia Rae as Penny
Release [ edit ]
Uncork'd Entertainment released The Amityville Terror on video on demand on August5️⃣ 2, 2024[3] and on DVD on October 4, 2024.[4]
Reception [ edit ]
Tex Hula ranked The Amityville Terror as the tenth5️⃣ best out of the twenty-one Amityville films that he reviewed for Ain't It Cool News, and succinctly stated, "Just as5️⃣ bland and generic as you can possibly get. Boring characters. Sub-plots are introduced and quickly forgotten. But surprisingly it has5️⃣ more gore, sex, and nudity than any other Amityville movie. Doesn't help though."[5] Brandon Long of PopHorror was highly critical5️⃣ of The Amityville Terror, calling it "a generic knockoff of the original film" before concluding, "The one redeemable element to5️⃣ this film is a few brutally creative death scenes paired with Aunt Shae's deteriorating sanity."[6] Kieran Fisher, in a review5️⃣ written for Scream magazine, was similarly contemptuous of the film, finding it to be "the epitome of generic and forgettable"5️⃣ and deeming it something, "I'd only recommend to diehard fans of the franchise."[7]
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