The Amityville Playhouse (2015)
Genre: Horror
Duration: 99 minuten
Alternative titles: Amityville Legacy / Amityville Theater
Country:
Canada
Directed by: John R. Walker
Stars: Monèle LeStrat, Linden Baker and Kennie Benoit
IMDb score:
1,9 (891)
Releasedate: 23 June 2015
The Amityville Playhouse plot
"Inspired by true events from America's most notorious town"
After the tragic death of her parents, Fawn Harriman discovers that she inherits a theater located in Amityville. Together with three friends, she decides to spend the weekend there to take a good look at the theater. Meanwhile, one of her teachers digs into the town's past. This leads him to a terrifying discovery.
Actors and actresses
Fawn Harriman
Kyle Blaker
Matteus 'Matt' Darnell
Wendy Shardlow
Indira 'Indy' Divani
Jevan Blaker
Elliot Saunders
Victor Stewart
Rev. Simon Randall
Fletcher
Reviews & comments
Tonypulp
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- 21231 messages
- 4608 votes
That lisping Chinese guy was especially great. The rest of the cast also played with great interest. $350,000 in budget; where did it go? Walker is simply not a competent director, and he makes that painfully clear. Terribly unfinished, particularly regarding the editing and sound design. Sloppy transitions, sudden dips in volume. Purely and simply the result of having 0.0 feeling for film. Student work, but as a mid-40s, you’re long past that stage...
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Shadowed
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- 11421 messages
- 6719 votes
Oh.
Another addition to the Amityville series, which once started out as a run-of-the-mill haunted house movie. Back then, the quality was actually quite decent. The visuals were even suspenseful at times, and it was also a completely different film from everything that came out 20 to 30 years later. Nowadays, it is mostly an excuse to market cheap junk.
The Amityville Theatre is not really any different in that regard, as it is primarily a rather miserable affair. A number of children, all acting poorly without exception, walk into an abandoned cinema with their dull personalities. Although conceptually it is fortunately not an event that moves into literal space, the premise never really manages to be engaging.
The cinema features some atmospheric visuals. I particularly liked the dream sequence with the purple-tinted entertainment hall, but apart from those rare highlights, this is mostly a tiring experience. It is also a rather sparsely decorated experience, by the way, because visually there is absolutely nothing trying to be entertaining. The threats or ghosts or whatever also feel uninspired.
By now, the fan hopefully knows that the more recent films have little to do with where it all began. Imagine that happening to you: an iconic and notorious crime that ultimately ends up in a film universe with well over 30 films that are all of poor quality. This film does it no justice and marks just about every flaw that cheap trash like this can have. So, easy to skip.
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mrklm
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- 11946 messages
- 10230 votes
A group of teenagers is staying in a dilapidated theater in Amityville that one of them [Monèle LeStrat] has inherited. Her lawyer [Tiana Diehl] notifies the mayor [Donal Phillips]. The prologue makes it clear that something is amiss, but also that Walker has all the action take place off-screen. Certainly not the worst in the never-ending series of horror films with the word Amityville in the title, but that doesn't mean much.
Translated from Dutch · View originalPre- and sequels
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