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AMITYVILLE POLTERGEIST - Review

DISTRIBUTOR: Breaking Glass Pictures

SYNOPSIS:  Jim is a young slacker who is still traumatized by a family loss. He takes on a housesitting job to earn some money from an unusually spooky old woman. While interviewing for the housesitting job, the old woman, Rebecca Morse says that she is not scared about anyone getting into the house, she is more afraid about what’s already in the house. As day turns to night, doors start slamming, steps begin to creak, and the spirits emerge.

REVIEW: This film really has nothing to do with the “Amityville Horror,” the house, or anything to do with the series of other films bearing the word “Amityville” in their title. If there is any reference it is gun violence and family members killing family members.

The narrative becomes nonlinear at a later point and becomes confusing until the end of the film. Yes, there is something in the house. However, what is the initial event that sets Rebecca off? Is it dementia, an evil presence, or is she just fed up and simply can’t stand her family any more? I simply didn’t care. In fact, all these characters needed to die and I felt gravely cheated when that did not transpire.

This is clearly a home grown horror film with a limited to no budget. Director Calvin Morié McCarthy has a compilation of 17 directing credits, mostly shorts, to his name and has acted in 63 films, mostly shorts and a couple of TV series. AMITYVILLE POLTERGEIST is a hodgepodge of themes and visuals from a variety of films from “The Ring,” “The Amityville Horror” films and other horror films so that the film feels more like a demo reel than a narrative.

McCarthy and fellow screenwriter Jon Ashley Hall pay little to no detail to the adult characters in the film. They are very one dimensional and offer no emotional engagement. The three twenty something main characters are simply unlikeable. They have no redeeming qualities whose only life lessons they should take away from this narrative is that they should be dead. There is not one good quality written into the three of them combined. The only actor that has a modicum  of talent is Airisa Durand. It could also be that her co-stars were that bad that they made her look that good.

Bottom line is that if you rent or buy AMITYVILLE POLTERGEIST and feel cheated or like you’ve wasted your money, it wasn’t because I didn’t warn you. This is one film that will haunt you long after viewing, but for all the wrong reasons.

CAST: Parris Bates, Sydney Winbush, J. Rebecca Morse, Conor Austin, Jesse Sass, Airisa Durand, & Jon Hall. CREW: Director/Screenplay/Producer/Cinematographer/Editor - Calvin Morie McCarthy; Score - Joel Whited; Special Effects MakeUp - Zach Smith OFFICIAL: N.A. FACEBOOK: N.A. TWITTER: N.A. TRAILER: https://youtu.be/T4S5K39MC44 RELEASE DATE: DVD & VOD May 18th, 2021

**Until we can all head back into the theaters our “COVID Reel Value” will be similar to how you rate a film on digital platforms - 👍 (Like), 👌 (It’s just okay),  or 👎 (Dislike) Reviewed by Joseph B Mauceri

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