Hey you beautiful people, I’m strongly considering making the Amityville Horror franchise my next giant project because there are TWENTY SEVEN MOVIES in the series, some of which might not actually be that good.
As someone doing a podcast where we are watching all of them, coming up on 50 of them, I can’t possibly say it’s a good idea. There’s room for avoiding a lot of the unofficial ones (more than half the series) but that’s where it becomes a real gauntlet to run.
That's why I'm excited about doing Silent Night, Deadly Night. It's a bonkers series but there is a finite number of films all related to the original.
I'm torn. From a reader perspective, this sounds metal and bonkers but from a "a real human would be doing this to themselves" perspective it sounds like a Hellraiser punishment. Though I'm not one to rain on anyone's parade, so I'd suggest maybe just doing the theatrically released ones if the spirit moves you? That can't be more than five or six, right? R-right?
I had no idea there were so many. Considering the most famous ones aren't that great it certainly sounds like a truly bad idea. Maybe go with the Re-Animator films. Three and you're done.
Are ANY of the Amintyville movies any good? I know the first three were pretty successful, but they all stunk on ice, I thought....
I know Red Letter Media did a rundown on Direct-to-Tubi movies, including a bunch of the Amityville ripoffs—but that was Mike and Jay mostly subjecting Rich Evans to all the stupid names and premises, like AMITYVILLE—IN SPACE!, AMITYVILLE: THE MUSICAL, AMITYVILLE: THE FINAL COUNTDOWN CONTINUES.
Most of these at least have decent titles, but "Amityville: It About Time" migiht be least-scary title for horror movie me have ever heard. Me can only assume title thuddingly literal and movie involve time travel, and if that not true, please no one disabuse me of this notion.
Also, what on Earth was going on in 2016 and 2020 that they made *four* of these movies in one year?
I'm fond of the first one (mostly for sentimental reasons), and the third one, because that is the first thing I (and most people) ever saw Meg Ryan in, and WOW, she stole that movie. I mean that may not seem like a high bar, but she was so charismatic that I hoped and assumed that she would become a big star after that. So I was happy to see that come to pass. [Edit: I forgot to mention that after decades of remembering Meg Ryan in her supporting role in that movie, I saw it again recently and realized that Lori Loughlin played one of the leads, which I did NOT remember at all.]
The 2005 remake had a good billboard campaign. I'm serious! The art style is sort-of evoked in the official movie poster (not the DVD cover), but the billboards were better. As for the film, Ryan Reynolds did his best, but I think most people would agree that he was miscast in that type of role. Still, the movie wasn't a total loss, since my wife was a huge Melissa George fan.
As someone doing a podcast where we are watching all of them, coming up on 50 of them, I can’t possibly say it’s a good idea. There’s room for avoiding a lot of the unofficial ones (more than half the series) but that’s where it becomes a real gauntlet to run.
That's why I'm excited about doing Silent Night, Deadly Night. It's a bonkers series but there is a finite number of films all related to the original.
I'm torn. From a reader perspective, this sounds metal and bonkers but from a "a real human would be doing this to themselves" perspective it sounds like a Hellraiser punishment. Though I'm not one to rain on anyone's parade, so I'd suggest maybe just doing the theatrically released ones if the spirit moves you? That can't be more than five or six, right? R-right?
PLEASE do everything up until the direct to tubi stuff. The first 7 or 8 are interesting at the very least.
I had no idea there were so many. Considering the most famous ones aren't that great it certainly sounds like a truly bad idea. Maybe go with the Re-Animator films. Three and you're done.
Are ANY of the Amintyville movies any good? I know the first three were pretty successful, but they all stunk on ice, I thought....
I know Red Letter Media did a rundown on Direct-to-Tubi movies, including a bunch of the Amityville ripoffs—but that was Mike and Jay mostly subjecting Rich Evans to all the stupid names and premises, like AMITYVILLE—IN SPACE!, AMITYVILLE: THE MUSICAL, AMITYVILLE: THE FINAL COUNTDOWN CONTINUES.
I never really listened to podcasts much until I discovered the theme of "horror movie franchises". I would dig this.
Even this crappy looking franchise? Sure.
Most of these at least have decent titles, but "Amityville: It About Time" migiht be least-scary title for horror movie me have ever heard. Me can only assume title thuddingly literal and movie involve time travel, and if that not true, please no one disabuse me of this notion.
Also, what on Earth was going on in 2016 and 2020 that they made *four* of these movies in one year?
I'm fond of the first one (mostly for sentimental reasons), and the third one, because that is the first thing I (and most people) ever saw Meg Ryan in, and WOW, she stole that movie. I mean that may not seem like a high bar, but she was so charismatic that I hoped and assumed that she would become a big star after that. So I was happy to see that come to pass. [Edit: I forgot to mention that after decades of remembering Meg Ryan in her supporting role in that movie, I saw it again recently and realized that Lori Loughlin played one of the leads, which I did NOT remember at all.]
The 2005 remake had a good billboard campaign. I'm serious! The art style is sort-of evoked in the official movie poster (not the DVD cover), but the billboards were better. As for the film, Ryan Reynolds did his best, but I think most people would agree that he was miscast in that type of role. Still, the movie wasn't a total loss, since my wife was a huge Melissa George fan.