Amityville Uprising (2022) User Reviews

Just terrible ...

[ComputerDaveUK · 1/10 · 12 January 2022]

Poor acting, bad scenery, unconvincing effects, joke of a story line and a Chinese lady (watch the movie to understand). No spoilers but you will know the plot and outcome after about 5 minutes.

Unless you are an avid fan of B movies then give this one a miss.

1 star for trying. 1 star for couple of make up parts.

[Jester222 · 2/10 · 11 February 2022]

Terrible acting.

Especially the asian 'Karen'.

Lazy script. And adding Amityville to the title was more of a hindrance than a help as totally unrelated to any other of the many films using the name.

The news reports were a distraction and the actor they chose was beyond cringe.

Within the first few seconds there is an explosion that is some of the worst cheap Chroma Key overlay I have seen outside a joke mobile app. That really let me know that what was coming would be very poor. If they let that through as acceptable then they had really low quality control.

Pointless attempts at drama with the cop and his 'kid' ! Really did NOT work at all. The interaction and dialogue is some of the worst I've seen in an long time. Think "The Room" level bad.

Couple of attempts at bloody practical FX work ok. But the red sky and acid rain looked so cheap it hurt. Ha ha

And why would anyone hear the radio say "acid rain, stay indoors" and 5hen instantly get out and then when feel it burns just stand there instead of getting into the car....squirming with more bad acting. That bit should have been cut, there was no blood or any makeup on him at all, melting gags are the easiest to do. . When he stands up and you see through the car window and he has a little blood it works so much better. But you were still in shock at the awful scene seconds before to care.

Zero tension.

A serial killer added to try and add some tension. Again fails.

Star for at least trying.

It s tough to get a film going and get a release so credit for that and hopefully they will all learn valuable lessons from their failures. Micro budget doesn't have to mean a total crapfest.

The ending. Well. As daft as the rest of it. 🙄

just crap

[deepudp · 2/10 · 15 January 2022]

Oh this is a disaster.

Please do not waste your time watching this.

There is nothing much to write about it. Wobbly plot, shoddy direction and dump acting.

Just stop, enough with Amityville word in the title, lol!

[darill-28027 · 1/10 · 14 January 2022]

Just stop, enough with the Amityville word in the title, lol! I don't know about you all but it definitely annoys me when a low budget film comes out with the word Amityville in their title, especially when it has nothing to do with the original Amityville movie. Lol! And everytime one comes out with that word in its title is just sucks worse and worse, movie so boring you fall asleep within 10 minutes of it. Why can't they come up with their own title instead of using a title that has been worn out already? So sad!

as bad as it gets

[moonnight072 · 1/10 · 16 January 2022]

You have your cheesy good movie and you have this...acting is awful,story is as bad and cgi was better in the 90's.i love zombie movies but this one was hard to finish.

VIEWS ON FILM review of Amityville Uprising

[burlesonjesse5 · 5/10 · 15 January 2022]

"Let's move". Roger that. People say it a lot in the pic I'm about to review. When zombies are around you might as well do just that, move. Zombies, acid rain, and a character named Childs. That's a nod to 1982's The Thing. I picked up on it.

So yeah, 2022's Amityville Uprising is listed as part of The Amityville Horror franchise. Guess what, it has absolutely nothing to do with haunting-s or the Ronald DeFeo Jr murders or whatever. "Uprising" is more like Assault on Precinct 13 with the walking dead forcefully attached. Zombies have been in other movies forever and along with the gore displayed in "Uprising", they've also been known to snap to it like banshees.

Amityville Uprising stars unknown actors who are almost primed to make this film an SNL parody. If "Uprising" didn't have the Amityville tag or had better production values or a cast that weren't D-lister-s, it might've sparked my interest a little more. One moment "Uprising" christens itself as a passable, low budgeted indie. Other times it looks as though it was made as a student film by some arts and crafts people (ugh).

Anywho, "Uprising" is unevenly shot, cut feverishly, and edited in a show-off manner. The special effects and first half of Amityville Uprising are bad I mean Holocaust bad. The zombies show up 45 minutes in and add at least a little street cred. I mean who wouldn't want to see a swooping corpse do the "spider walk" in the styling-s of The Exorcist. I'm up for anything.

Clocking in at 85 minutes and featuring an annoying female character who constantly gives everybody crap for not being able to pay for a standard ticket, "Uprising" is part unintentional comedy, part cop buffoonery, and part B-movie horror swipe. It ends abruptly and unhappily, not knowing what it wants to be or what it really wants to say. Hey, at least the witchcraft-ed energy is still there. I got a mixed "rise" out of it.

Cheesiest Movie ever😂

[reeniebop-85896 · 1/10 · 12 January 2022]

Don't waste your time. The acting, and effects are terrible! Probably one of the cheesiest movies we've come across. We couldn't even finish watching it because it was so dang bad.

Three Stars for Trying

[arfdawg-1 · 3/10 · 15 January 2022]

Not as bad as teh other reviewer says.

Yes, the acting is pretty dismal and it's a tad slow, but hey it's made for no money and taking that into consideration, you have to give at least some props.

They really tried. Sets, wardrobe, etc. They didt just make this in the backyard like most cheap horror videos. And it's not that stupid shakey cam found footage garbage.

They actually put some thought and elbow grease into the movie.

It's better than most Troma films I've seen. Far more serious.

If your into B movies you'll love it, if not stay away

[Juicy_Kumquat · 5/10 · 24 June 2022]

If your into B movies you'll love it. As "we" know, there is no such thing as a bad movie, only a boring one. This is not boring. If fact it is one of the best of the "in name only" Amityville offerings. The acting ranges from over the top and stunted dialogue, to good acting. Some of the actors would fit in fine in action movies or TV shows. The special effects cgi is what you would expect from a low budget picture....so it sucks, lol, (think the ending of The Langoliers), but then the make up effects are great. The humor and script are well done.

The main idea is a chemical explosion at a govt lab in Amityville has created acid rain that horribly burns its victims and turns them into zombies (borrowing some from Return of the Living Dead). The main story takes place at a police station where a cop and his teen son, a crazy "karen" lady paying a ticket (who brought comic relief although I am not sure she meant to), a prisoner, news reporter and cameraman, and other officers/morgue workers, have to deal with the bodys coming back to life, acid rain, and zombies.

The thing that sets this apart from some of the other low budget stuff is that the cast is ample and the pacing is great. No long drawn out parts of people looking out a window at trees or folding their laundry. :)

All in all, this is a successful entry and I would happily re-watch.

Worse than Awful

[atilionalerio · 1/10 · 14 January 2022]

How to synthesize this nonsense in 500 characters? With this rhetorical question I am already advancing that I did not like it, but it must be substantiated.

The argument (somehow you have to call it) is absolutely crazy, it begins as a catastrophe movie with an explosion that causes acid rain and the consequences on those who are exposed to it, then mutates into chaos inside a police station and its morgue where several characters die from burns, and finally... the dead are not dead! They come back to life infected with cannibalistic behaviors! It turns out that they are zombies.

Frankly awful script, bad performances and ridiculous sets, but also all done with a poverty of resources and technical knowledge that looks like a play (?) made by kindergarten children. Although it may seem absurd, I recommend this monstrosity for, as the saying goes, "seeing is believing".

A generally solid indie zombie effort

[kannibalcorpsegrinder · 8/10 · 10 January 2023]

Following a devastating chemical explosion, the staff at a small-town police station find themselves forced inside the building when toxic rain from the explosion is released, but when they find that the dead have come back to life following the incident must put their issues aside to escape the threat.

This wasn't too bad of a genre effort for the most part. One of the better features here is a generally solid setup that features quite a lot to like in regard to the structure of the film. Opening on the main explosion at the chemical plant and the resulting chaos that arrives once the soldiers arrive to face the evitable, the series of incidents coming from that including a toxic chemical cloud over the area affecting those in the area mixes quite well with the exploits at the broken police station at the same time. As this setup establishes the setup with the introduction of the acid rain and the exploits of the disheveled police station, the introduction of the zombie action here is rather nice. Seeing the early features of the rain melting them down and them bringing the individual back to life, there's enough featured here to know their origin status to them make the series of attacks while stuck inside the station come off rather well as the crumbling facility, lack of personnel and the interpersonal relationships keeping everything from going they expect. As this introduction to the zombies comes off quite well, the rest of the encounters in the second half are quite fun with the infected stalking and attacking others in the darkened station. Unaware of the true state of the emergency and forced to battle the creatures who've become resurrected and overwhelming the location, the fun that emerges once they're forced to finally get away is filled with some solid gunplay, decent gore effects on the kills and some surprisingly fun zombie make-up. Overall, these factors manage to generate some positive aspects even though the film does have some issues with it. One of the biggest factors here is a highly unnecessary subplot here involving the capture of a serial killer being held there for an interview with TV reporters which adds unneeded complications to the story while stretching out the running time. That ties into the other factor here where this one takes quite a while with the office issues and personal struggles to get to the zombie action sooner, especially as it opens on the explosion so the overloaded time on these other issues stall the film getting to the points which are what hold this back.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

Solid Performance from Mike Ferguson

[gogolfernando · 7/10 · 28 October 2023]

Its an interesting zombie flick, rain turning people into zombies, kind of cooky lol. Some cool action sequences. I wish they had done more with the visual effects in the film, the visual effects left a lot to be desired and kind of took me way out of the film. The film has some odd pacing (editing?) issues, but its an interesting concept. Mike Ferguson absolutely carries the film on his back, after watching this I will pretty much watch anything Mike is in. Otherwise the acting is just okay, but honestly that seemed like kind of an issue with the writing. Unless you're a hardcore indie movie watcher like myself, you might want to give this one a pass.

AWFUL

[ericajadejohnson · 1/10 · 6 February 2022]

Please do yourself a favor and don't waste your time watching this DUMB movie. All we could do was laugh and shake our head. Worst acting I've ever seen. Can't believe I wasted an hour of my life watching something so stupid! If I could give a negative star rating I would. Lol.

Face Melting Acid

[nogodnomasters · 3/10 · 16 January 2022]

An explosion at the Fort Johnson chemical factory sends a plume into the air which comes down as acid rain that burns and melts the skin. It also has a zombie effect for some reason. The action takes place in a Amityville police station that is being combined with another, They are sparsely manned as Sgt Dash (Scott C. Roe) is attempting to make amends with his son (Kole Benfield ) dropped off by his ex-wife. He refers to his son as "kid."

The rain/explosion special effects were low budget, although the make-up wasn't bad.

Guide No f-words sex or nudity.

A subpar low budget zombie flick with a few positives.

[MonsterVision99 · 3/10 · 20 January 2022]

Its mostly a generic micro-budget zombie movie thats slaps the Amityville title to it. There are some positive aspects to the movie but the biggest problem with the film is that it doesnt truly commit to the B-movie feel it has from time to time.

It could have been a potential splatterfest since the performances arent awful, production values arent too poor, the make up effects are decent enough to work and the direction can be briefly effective at times, but instead, it relies on cliche drama and a bland script.

Zombies in Amityville? Sure, why not?...

[paul_haakonsen · 2/10 · 9 April 2022]

Another year, another movie with the word Amityville in its title.

Needless to say that I wasn't harboring much of any high hopes or expectations for the 2022 action horror movie titled "The Amityville Rising" from writer and director Thomas J. Churchill. But I still opted to sit down and watch it, given it being a horror movie that I hadn't already seen.

"The Amityville Rising" is bad. It is exactly as bad as you would assume it be. Yeah, not really a big surprise there, huh?

The storyline written by Thomas J. Churchill was just all over the place, and the name Amityville is just in the movie's title to lure in an audience. But hey, it did work, you and I watched the movie, right? Sure, the movie is set to take place in the town Amityville, but that is about it. So talk about a cheap cash-in on a title in order to lure in viewers.

Let's just stop to look at the storyline: A laughably bad CGI explosion rocks Amityville and creates an acidic toxic rain that plasters the town. Anyone exposed dies horribly and return as zombies. Right, where is the red thread and logic in that?

The acting performances in "The Amityville Rising" were fair, taking into consideration the thin script that they had to work with. Not great performances, not memorable performances. But the actors and actresses on the cast list managed to do fair enough with the limited material they had to work with in terms of script, storyline, character gallery and dialogue.

Visually then "The Amityville Rising" was adequate. It wasn't a memorable action horror in any way, and it didn't really even have impressive special effects to sweeten the deal.

"The Amityville Rising" is not a movie that I would recommend you waste your time, money or effort on. Some of us suffered through this, and I mean that literally, so you don't have to.

My rating of "The Amityville Rising" lands on a two out of ten stars.

Unwatchable

[Kanexz-709-365625 · 1/10 · 4 March 2022]

When the worst things about a movie is everything visual(cgi effects, camera work, acting etc) it just becomes unwatchable regardless of anything else. This movie looks like a school project,an elementary school project, with dads camera and a cell phone editing app. I love horror movies and payed like 4.99 to rent/watch this on my Apple TV. I got to the halfway mark and just couldn't gut out the rest. If I can deter just one person from making the same mistake I did, then my life had some sort of meaning for at least one person.

I'm really sorry, but...

[hezzachan · 1/10 · 3 March 2024]

I really wanted to like this movie, but it's really terrible. I don't want to be too mean, but it's probably the worst movie I've ever seen. My parents used to own a video store, so we've seen a TON of movies. Some were really, really bad, but not on this level. Like I said, I wanted to like it! I'm a huge fan or horror movies and shows, but this made me really depressed. The acting is the worst I've ever watched. I've seen sooo many movies, and some that were so bad, they were good. Look at what Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell did with Evil Dead; they had a very low budget, but they made it work somehow. This... just doesn't.

Amityville doesn't mean what you think

[chargergirl-67068 · 4/10 · 18 April 2024]

OK. To be honest. I haven't finished watching the movie yet. I fell asleep 5 times and am still rewinding it trying to finish it but that should tell you alot. After the Asian "Karen" as another reviewer called her, which I'm stealing because that's funny, came in with the worst acting ever, I looked up her film credits and the list went on and on. Wow. She has some friends which is probably how this film got made. I also thought the goof list would be a mile long but people probably just figured we all knew or weren't awake anymore. I thought oh boy, I hope the other actors won't be as bad, and for the most part they aren't except for some unbelievable scenes but that's the directors and writers fault. If you walked outside in acid rain and it started burning you'd duck back under cover especially if it's RIGHT THERE! You wouldn't stand there and squirm. After that the rest of the movie just started becoming a mix of every movie you've ever watched. Not naming names...assault on a police precinct, zombies, maniacally laughing serial killer, and I don't know what else because as I said I'm only 58:22mins in but have been watching it for 3 cumulative hours with the falling asleep. You ask why do I keep watching? Because I'm goal oriented plus I'm optimistic. And there are zombies promised somewhere here. I'm a TWD walker stalker so I'll hang for a zombie appearance but I know I'll be disappointed because I've been spoiled. Oh wait..here they are...that's quite a set up for an approx 1:29(?) Run time.

The Amityville Rising

[marinaant-36217 · 3/10 · 4 March 2022]

I knew this film was gonna be bad since I first watched the trailer, I just watched this movie to laugh because that's the only thing it can offer, first of all the plot is stupid itself. I can't say that I found this film boring but the acting, effects, stupid plot, characters made me hate it and the ending was the worst.

Amityville again

[klaatut · 10/10 · 14 January 2022]

I really liked this film! It was so bad that it was good! What do you expect from a movie with Amityville as its first word?!?

I'm no fan of the previous Amityville films but this one really is different! The transmission of the zombie virus is unique and really weird Being stuck in the house with Covid stuff may have made my appreciation of bad movies to grow.

Zombieville

[BandSAboutMovies · 2/10 · 21 November 2022]

Directed and written by Thomas J. Churchill, Amityville Uprising is the story of an explosion at a military base, acid rain and zombies being created as a result, all of which are endured by police officers Dash (Scott C. Roe), Howie (Tank Jones), Nina (Kelly Lynn Reiter) Lance (Mike Ferguson) and Malloy (Troy Fromin). There's also Dash's son Jimmy (Kole Benfield), infamous criminal Joe Gallo (Micah Fitzgerald) and the news crew there to interview him.

Churchill also made The Amityville Moon and Amityville Harvest, making this the third Amityville movie that Churchill has made for Lionsgate, which kind of shocks me that they'd get into the Amityville game. Yet here we are, a third movie that has little to nothing to do with the Amityville house and is instead set there. There's only one moment, when a prescription bottle has the 112 Ocean Avenue address on it, that has a reference to the original film.

This is very Assault on Precinct 13 but nowhere near the magic of Carpenter's film. But that's the idea. And you know, it's almost shot too well for an Amityville film, having some actual quality and color balancing, things I don't expect from this subgenre.

What it doesn't have is the bizarre ideas that so many of the lower budget Amityville movies do have, instead being content to make a cops versus zombies film with cut in news footage that goes from bad to worse, so fake by comparison that it breaks the narrative. The blast that starts all of this also looks quite poor in contrast to the good special effects for the undead segments, as if there are parts of this movie at war with one another.

The first half of this is more about the breakfast orders of a bunch of cops, which I kind of admire, as there's so much effort given to the ordering and delivery of a series of sandwiches and breakfast foods. I wish I had some breakfast right now thinking of this film, which is something I have never said about any other Amityville movie.

This does mention events from the other two movies, so I appreciate that there's a goal of creating a shared universe. I want this so badly. I want someone to connect the Amityville stories in space, in the hood, with clowns and theaters.

Amityville=Avoid At All Costs

[soulcrisis28 · 1/10 · 28 March 2024]

I don't know why they keep making the movies with "Amityville" in the title like they're supposed to be attached to the other movies, cause they're not and they haven't been for really, really long time. In fact, it's gotten to the point that if Amityville is in the title these days, you should avoid it like the plague.

Terrible script, terrible acting, terrible everything and not one of those it's so bad it's good, it's just bad.

The SFX are ok, that's the one star cause it's give it zero stars if they'd let me. Yeah so I don't know what else to say other than I've seen better acting from high school plays. Don't let your curiosity get the better of you like I did, skip this, avoid this, can't believe it even got made.

ANOTHER GARBAGE FILM

[im_in_movies212 · 1/10 · 6 March 2022]

Just what you'd expect from this director. Please stop trying to capitalize on the use of "Amityville" when your story has absolutely nothing to do with the original story. It's cheap bait and switch, but like I said, just what you'd expect.