Amityville Exorcism (2017) User Reviews

Amityville Exorcism: The absolute pits

[Platypuschow · 1/10 · 24 November 2017]

Amityville has been tagged onto plenty of horrors in an attempt to gain credibility and the majority have been terrible, this however is by far the worst.

Watching these 76 minutes was beyond a chore, it was cruel and unusual punishment. I believe in sitting all the way through a film, this is one of those times I regret it.

Hyper low budget with a fittingly poor cast, soundtrack, editor and director. The cinematography is some of the worst I've seen and the whole thing was painful to watch.

It tells the story of a priest called in to save a possessed girl in a house that contains some of the wood from the original Amityville house.

The movie has no redeeming qualities beyond the cover. Staring at that cover art for 76 minutes would be more entertaining.

The Good:

Great cover

The Bad:

AWFUL acting

Dreadful cinematography

Random flashing images are moronic

Hilariously bad soundtrack

Dumb, dumb, dumb

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

Drinking Jager from the bottle during the day suggests the person is scummy.....or lucky

Who are these people?

[tdavis9902 · 1/10 · 17 January 2017]

This movie couldn't even be rated as "B" movie, a low "Z" at tops. WOW can't believe someone even came up with this idea and then even had to balls to get "actors" (and I use that very loosely) to spend time on making it. Worst movie and acting EVER!!! I would not waste my time on watching this train wreck unless you need a good laugh. Movie looks like it was filmed on a Iphone at best. I think I need to go drink some bleach after watching this. How can someone even take credit for this and to think that Amazon charges for you to watch it? Maybe the video will end up in a bin at the Dollar Tree for fifty cents. I have lost all hope in humanity and anyone that would think this was a good idea.

Terrible movie asusal in the name of Amityville

[shobanchittuprolu · 1/10 · 4 January 2017]

The Amityville Exorcism (2017):

I hate all the Amityville B Grade movies.All of them are so terrible except Amityville Asylum which is also a bad movie but better than others.So I gave this exorcism a try.So how is it?

Plot: Terrible

Plus Points: Whaaaattttttttttt....No Way......

Minus Points: In every Possible Way..

So,Amityville Asylum is awful at all levels and simply a terrible watch.

My rating 1/10 (Please allow 0 option too)

Crap

[nigelbarnes1 · 1/10 · 22 April 2018]

I wish that there was no stars because that Is what I would have put

Unadulterated garbage of the highest order.

[jeremy-david-kuehnau · 4 March 2017]

What a waste of time, what a load of garbage. There is NOTHING redeeming about this "film". There's not a single good thing I can say about it.

Riding the long dead corpse of the Amityville name, it looks as if some kid in high school thought it would be a good idea to use their parents video recorder to try and make a film.

Avoid this junk at all costs.

Demonic lumber?

[TdSmth5 · 2/10 · 12 February 2017]

Someone kills a family with a hammer. Years later this same person confesses to a priest and asks the priest to go to a house to exorcise it. So because of demonic transference, some lumber ended up demonized and the house he's referring to was made with pieces of that lumber and it was the cause for him killing his family.

At the house live Amy and her alcoholic dad. The priest makes it over there and as luck would have it around that time Amy start becoming possessed herself when a guy dressed in red appear, so the priest will have to perform an exorcism and the house and then Amy.

Yup, Amityville Exorcism is a zero budget horror movie combining the fashionable exorcism sub-genre with the deceptive Amityville title. It has nothing to do with the Amityville franchise. It has that cheap camera look, weird synth sounds, cheesy visual effects, poor acting, etc. It seems to be a two-man operation. Yet there is actually some skill involved. The director seems to have an idea what to do. I was actually going to rate this higher because I thought that the crew didn't have a whole lot of experience, but it turns out the director has directed 39 movies in three decades. The first thing a filmcrew should know is when it's feasible to make a movie and when to put a project on hold. If you've been directing movies for 30 years, why come out at this point with a no-budget movie?

Laughing, Crying, Dying.

[GroudokaHG · 1/10 · 7 April 2018]

Another film that was distributed by Wild Eye Releasing, the same company that's unleashed films like The Amazing Bulk and Shark Exorcist, yet this might be the worst film out of their entire catalog. This movie is such a disaster that the opening credits were made in iMovie. I'm not kidding, they use the exact same text effects that I've seen in the 2007 version of iMovie. There's also a lot of stock footage used in the movie as well, a lot of which I've seen on YouTube channels.

The problems with the editing doesn't stop there either. There is no color correction throughout the duration of the film, unless it was in the stock footage that they took for their feature film. Many of the scenes are either way too bright or way too dark, and it will either be distracting or laughable. There's also some random images that flash on the screen throughout the movie because... it's scary? Most of them are just a cheap attempt at a jumpscare, even when there's nothing suspenseful actually happening.

There's a scene where one of the priests (I can't remember any of the characters names and I don't care) is walking through a field and a picture of a skull flashes on the screen out of nowhere. That's how desperate this movie is to try and scare the audience. And when a movie is about possessed wooden planks, I can see why these were added. The intentionally ridiculous film Rubber makes more sense than this film.

The camerawork is some of the worst I have ever seen. There's a scene where the same priest is driving in his car and a bootleg monster from The Village appears, and there must have been no clear direction on set because the cameraman just shakes the camera all over the interior of the vehicle for no reason! It's not even handheld like a found footage film, it doesn't make any sense.

The sound design is awful, especially when Amy is swimming in the pool, and it sounds like they recorded the water splashing sound from 20 feet away. The music ranges from ripping off The Exorcist to tunes that make me wanna go deaf. Most of the actors in this movie read off the lines on the script with zero emotion. There's even a scene where Amy and her boyfriend are talking on the phone and it's supposed to be an emotional moment, but the boyfriend's actor seems unable to emote whatsoever and it becomes hilarious in all the wrong ways. The dialogue fares no better either.

The best part of this film is the cover, which is a lie as to the quality of the movie it's marketing. That and the few scenes that were so bad they made me laugh out loud, unfortunately those scenes aren't frequent enough for me to say it's worth seeing. The only scene I'd watch is the one where the red "demon" appears in a computer that they probably used to edit the movie, and the priest shoves the cross up against the screen and causes the entire computer to explode in a stock graphic, as that was easily the funniest part of the film. Other than that though, this is one of the few films that doesn't get anything right about film making, if you can even call it that. Consider this a 0/10, purely because I can't find a reason to give it a 1.

Budget constraints!

[spidermanfan2099 · 1/10 · 22 January 2017]

There were definite budget constraints! In all aspects of the 'movie'. No acting budget. No writing budget. No technical budget. I think the front cover would have been the most expensive part of the whole production.

I watched it, as something on the side while I was working, and it quickly became a distraction, akin to the shrill of an alarm clock.

The premise is simple enough, much like previous Amityville tie-ins, official or otherwise. You remember the one with the haunted lamp, that's this, but imagine they couldn't afford a lamp, so they just made a piece of haunted wood... i'm not kidding! They should have renamed it 'Amityville: 2x4'. It quickly morphs into an elderly film students attempt at a tragic family, trapped in a poorly written Exorcist for Bible camp children.

The board game 'Atmosfear' had better special FX, they should of asked someones kids to do it, it would have looked better! I wouldn't waste your time on it really! Everything here has been done before and quite a bit better too.

Comically bad.

[blakenew · 3/10 · 2 January 2018]

I'm not going to waste your time with a wordy, well thought-out review. This movie was so bad, that it was funny. If that was their intention, then kudos. I laughed at this film more than I laugh at some of the "comedy" movies these days. From the "demon" with the cheap red Halloween costume, to the liquor bottles filled with water, this movie was hilarious.

Just wrong!

[kingdom-18993 · 1/10 · 5 August 2017]

Even low budget movies can be scary. but this one was just aggravation to watch, God help the future, for ideas of new films. get off all these reincarnated off-shoots. Amityville horror was a perfect low budget creation based on actual events. But this warmed over irrelevant nonsensical garbage is just wrong.

I thought it would never happen but I stopped watching after 30 mintes.

[deloudelouvain · 1/10 · 18 January 2021]

I watched thousands of movies in my life, started reviewing since five years, and said I would watch a movie from beginning till the end, no matter how bad it was, just to give a fair and honest review but in this case I just couldn't. It's only the second movie I couldn't watch till the end so you can guess how bad it was. From the first second you already know this is going to be bad. I made it for 30 minutes, and then I couldn't take it anymore. The acting is awful, I guess a family decided to shoot a home video with some locals and friends of them that were willing to give it a shot, just for fun. Absolutely nobody can act in this movie. The special effects, if you can call it that, could have been made by a five year old with some computer knowledge, but I think he would have done better. It's just terrible. The filming made me laugh in the beginning, but at one point it's just not funny anymore, it becomes just annoying. Rarely do I give a movie one star, but in this case it just doesn't even deserve a star. Probably one of the worst movies (I know I shouldn't call it like that, it's an insult to other movies), so probably one of the worst pieces of garbage I ever watched in my life. Avoid at all costs.

A fun if somewhat problematic genre effort with a few issues

[kannibalcorpsegrinder · 8/10 · 26 September 2023]

After moving into a new house, a woman is slowly overcome by an evil, malicious presence found in the house that ties her to the demonic influence that was responsible for several other deadly acts in the house's history and forces him to call a priest friend to save her from its' grasp.

Overall, this was a pretty fun genre effort. One of the better features here is the rather strong build-up that focuses on the family interactions after arriving as the strained relationship between her and her father while also trying to deal with her boyfriend at the same time becomes the main focal point of this one. The storylines here involving how they treat each other and the various interactions here that give an indication into their lives at this stage offer a highly intriguing setup that makes their later interactions once she becomes possessed and able to manipulate others as well as gain the assistance of the demonic entity. That gives the film a solid bit of fun in the second half where the possessed daughter and demon provide a solid series of encounters that showcase the power against others which results in some cheesy action and gore effects to pull them off. Once all that has been accomplished, the finale gives this a solid series of cheesy encounters as the titular exorcism takes place. Despite not doing anything original or outright clever, the typical scenes expected here are still fun and generally enjoyable enough to keep the energy going as the battle takes place which features a slew of effects-work on the possessed as well as the cheesy demon effects which make for a fun time. There's no getting around the majority of the issues here being the same as most others in the filmography which goes from the traditional assortment of low-budget limitations including cheesy computer graphics, flimsy props, and a limited location setup that provides this with the type of guerilla-style production usually found in their genre efforts. Those should be expected though and don't really hold it back as much as it should.

Rated Unrated/ R: Graphic Language and Violence.

Suicide inducing

[BandSAboutMovies · 1/10 · 10 February 2020]

"The Church won't allow you to exorcise that house."

"God will!"

Oh no. Mark Polonia is back in Amityville and this time, the culprit is cursed wood from the 112 Ocean Avenue house being used to make another domicile. That's right. The lumber itself is evil.

Look - it's 7:30 AM on a Saturday and life seems bleak and meaningless, so I'm going to metaphorically kick myself in the soul and force watch this.

Polonia has added a new directing tick in this one: random bursts of footage that have nothing to do with the scene he's filming, as well as screaming and quick Fulci zooms.

This one has it all, if by all you mean drunk dads, a demon who bought his The Masque of the Red Death outfit at the Spirit Store on November 1 so that he got the 50% discount, night for day, day for night, Jeff Kirkendall as a priest, a demon stalking a girl who just wants to go swimming in the middle of the day, said demon attack in the pool intercut with drunk dad weenie roasting, shots that go on way too long, shots that don't stay on the screen long enough to inform us what is going on within them, conversations that never happen with both actors on screen at the same time and lighting that's as consistent as the work history of my ex-girlfriends.

Next Time Go to Home Depot

[Michael_Elliott · 2 October 2017]

Amityville Exorcism (2017)

* (out of 4)

A man brutally murders three members of his family with a hammer. Flash-forward to Amy (Marie DeLorenzo) and her alcoholic father moving into a home in Amityville. Pretty soon Amy begins to witness some strange things and Father Benna begins to think there's a connection to the murders.

AMITYVILLE EXORCISM is yet another cheap rip-off that uses the "Amityville" name to try and cash in on the popular book and film series. It's amazing how many of these movies are out there as they've pretty much became a sub-genre all on their own. This one here, as the title clearly gives away, is an attempt to add demonic possession to the story-line.

In fact, there's very little here that connects this to the actual Amityville house. The plot here has the current owner's living in a separate house but the maniac with the hammer took lumber out of the Amityville house and put into theirs. Just about the only good thing I can say about this is that it at least looks like a professional movie as the director at least managed to make a film without countless errors. It looks like an actual film, which is something a lot of recent low-budget horror films can't say.

As far as the rest goes, there's really not too much here to recommend for a number of reasons. The story is just downright weak. There's one memorable gore scene but that's about it. The performances are mostly bad and I also had a hard time believing that the lead actress was a teen living with her father. She looked way too old for this and you could say that this happens in most horror movies. That's true but here it was almost laughable at them trying to pass her off as a teen.

AMITYVILLE EXORCISM is a pretty lousy movie that's sadly not bad enough to where you could get some cheap laughs out of it. The movie is pretty bland from start to finish and it's pretty bad even for this series.

Save your time please

[madlle · 1/10 · 4 September 2019]

I dont write reviews often but i had to do it this time. I saw the 6 stars score on this film and i gave it a try.

ONE OF THE WORST MOVIES I EVER SAW.

Seemed like it was filmed on a cellphone and every actor was just random guys they found on the nearest coffee shop.

So, dont let the score fool you and save your time. Unless instead of an horror movie you like to see a comedy.

WTF?

[arjnsdca · 1/10 · 7 April 2018]

Need I say more? Some of the reviews were more entertaining than the movie. What's up with those "special" "mind" effects and the lipstick red outfit? I have to check into a bulimia clinic after just watching ~30% of this.

BLESS YOU!

[verynicebones · 1/10 · 19 May 2018]

I thought the opening scene was a joke, maybe a spoof of what was to come. But, no, it was real and an introduction to the editing and acting that was to come for the next 80 minutes. The acting was bad, the cast was confusing, and at times, I found myself thinking, "Why am I watching a movie about haunted lumber?" But, overall, I was impressed that iMovie didn't crash and burn from the editor's abuse of sound effects.

Starring: A dad who likes drinking vodka without ANY chasers. A true alcoholic. A thirty year old woman who tries her best to portray a sixteen year old girl. *Insert random modeling gig in the middle of the woods here* The girl's boyfriend? Friend? Character that exists because the director thought he was hot? A random thief who messed with the wrong haunted lumber. A priest who I had to make sure wasn't Paul McCartney's son. And Dollar Store Demon- the costume designer for this film was snubbed by the Oscar's.

Bonus points: Demon dolls that show up out of nowhere toward the end of the film and are never explained. The great cinema achievement of CGI Bees.

Obviously this film isn't great, and if I hadn't been sick, I would have never come across it on Amazon Prime. It is terrible, but it's hilarious. 1/10 movie, for sure. Probably doesn't deserve a star, to be quite honest. But, if you remove the haunted stick up yer bum, then it's a great movie to watch while you're sick and on sleeping meds.

Suffered from lack of budget

[djeheuty · 3/10 · 8 June 2017]

The dead horse that is the "Amtiyville Saga" is flogged once more and this entry makes last years effort, "The Amityville Terror" (2016) look like "Citizen Kane" by comparison.

To be charitable, this movie might have been a decent B-horror flick with a better budget and thus better actors and script revisions.

No

[alexinidaho · 1/10 · 1 January 2018]

Ummmm.... is this legal? Can this be called a "movie"? Uhhhh so bad I guess it was good. We laughed harder at this than most comedies. This is a whole new genre; "Comorror". Good job for making the worst movie ever! If you are on mushrooms, this might be a good bet for a hilarious good time! ;) -3 stars

Mommy killer!

[nogodnomasters · 2/10 · 15 August 2017]

This is a Mark Polonoia film, iconic bad film maker. The main question: "Is it so bad it is good, or is it just bad?" Charles Humes (Ken Van Sant) was a carpenter who was working on the infamous Amityville house and he kept the leftover wood from the project. He used this wood on another project and his own home. The demon was transferred in the wood as Charles kills his family with a hammer in the first scene. He alerts Father Benna (Jeff Kirkendall) of the issue who seeks out the home which has the wood.

Meanwhile at that house we have Jeremy Dukane (James Carolus) a man who is already possessed by the Jack Jägermeister demon. Amy (Marie DeLorenzo) is his "vulnerable" daughter.

The film overall was bad and I doubt most people will make it past 10 minutes. It does have a few bad scenes I had to laugh at such as the "help me" scene, the doll scene, and the climax exorcism. Our demon consisted of a white guy in a red robe, a solid red mask, and a voice distorter. He breathes heavy at time. There was not one "wood" joke, apparently Polonia moving on to a new era. Line reader, Jeff Kirkendall gave us a performance worthy of the death penalty, at least a good egging.

Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

A Failed Effort to Capitalize on the Amityville Popularity

[Uriah43 · 2/10 · 23 April 2024]

This film essentially begins late one night with a man by the name of "Charles Humes" (Ken Van Sant) picking up a hammer and brutally bludgeoning his wife and two daughters to death. The scene then shifts to a priest named "Father Benna" (Jeff Kirkendall) going to the prison to visit Charles and being told that he committed these murders because he was possessed by demons after acquiring some lumber from the infamous haunted house in Amityville. Not knowing whether to believe him or not, Father Benna then goes to where Charles worked as a utility man on a house requiring some of the same lumber taken from that same haunted house. At first, everything seems fine even though the owner of the house "Jeremy Dukane" (James Carolus) seems rather annoyed with his presence. However, it isn't until he meets Jeremy's daughter "Amy Dukane" (Marie DeLorenzo) that his suspicions intensify. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that it became quite clear early on that this was nothing more than a cheap effort to capitalize on the Amityville name--with the costume for the demon and the acting of James Carolus probably being the most obvious examples of this. On a more positive note, given the rather weak script, I thought Marie DeLorenzo actually performed in an adequate manner, all thing's considered. Likewise, I liked the way in which the director (Mark Polonia) tried every gimmick he could think of to try to enhance a picture that lacked the necessary funding required for a movie of this sort. If nothing else, at least he tried. Regardless, this was still an awful movie, and I have rated it accordingly.

Really scary.

[jacobjohntaylor1 · 9/10 · 15 February 2019]

This is the 18th Amityville movie. Not counting the remake. This movie has a great story line. The acting is okay. It is a very scary movie. The 19th Amtiyvillle movie Amiyville Awakenings is scarier. This is scarier then the 15th Amityville movie. Amityville no escape. Skip that one.

This is bad

[kassiecadle-94878 · 1/10 · 14 April 2020]

I believe in watching the full movie, but I really couldn't make it through the first 10 minutes. Laser beam sounds when you first see the house...a hammer is used to kill a family (it bounces off their heads)...halloween soundtrack with credits at the beginning of the movie...and worst of all, a man dressed in a red robe with a red halloween mask (don't forget the lightning that follows him everywhere he goes)

Movie made with cellphone cam

[deelolazjourney · 14 October 2017]

Someone decided to see what would happen if they got some family members and friends together to put on a play using either their cellphone to film, or a cheap video camera.

End of story.

Sorry....there is no story.

Please Don't Watch

[podasplease · 1/10 · 12 June 2017]

To begin with, the Amityville horror movies were not always the best. Far from it, really. However, this movie: with its horrible costumes: irritating "jumpscares": and lifeless actors, takes the f***ing cake. The intro itself should warn you that this movie is poorly made. I felt like I was watching a documentary with the film's terrible camera direction, I was waiting for the narrator to chime in the entire time. The actors themselves could not have done a worse job; the main "young, angsty teen" looks and sounds like she's in her mid-30's. The demon itself is an abomination; some guy with a red sheet and a solid red mask... You can even see his creeper-in-the-basement neck-beard. If you're hoping for plot, the foundation of the story is literally evil wood. Evil wood. Yes. The ending lacks any sort of satisfaction, except for the monstrosity finally ending. Don't watch this movie unless you genuinely want to torture yourself.