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The Amityville Horrible: A Review
(0)You know it’s a bad sign when you start taking notes during a horror movie. An even worse sign is that the notes you’re taking are about how bad the movie is.
The 2005 remake of the 1979 movie “The Amityville Horror,” which is based on a true story that was eventually proven to be fiction — off to a great start! — has three major flaws: the producers, the screenwriter, and the director. As Michael Bay is one of these producers, I should’ve known how bad it would be. Still, he wasn’t to blame for it all. Behind the scenes we get to meet the two young producers behind the project, (a sort of unclever couple real-life version of the slackers in “Knocked Up,” which is great, by the way). Dumb and Dumber tell the viewers that they saw the 1979 original on DVD and said that this had to be their next project. ‘Nuff said. Later on, I came to learn that they also came up with the completely unoriginal notion that they should change the awkward babysitter with a nightbrace into a hottie. While Scott Kosar, the screenwriter, wanted to keep the awkward teen, these two producers said no way! this was their chance to have a “smokin’ babysitter.” Dude.