‘Amityville: No Escape’ – This Found Footage Installment Is Only Half Successful [The Amityville IP]
Twice a month Joe Lipsett will dissect a new Amityville Horror film to explore how the “franchise” has evolved in increasingly ludicrous directions. This is “The Amityville IP.”
The found footage entries in the Amityville series have been hit and miss. The Amityville Haunting featured a few innovative uses of the format, but the minuscule budget and bad acting hampered its potential. Amityville: Vanishing Point was unable to screen in Canada, though it, too, looked very cheap. The seventeenth film in the “franchise,” Amityville: No Escape, adopts two different strategies for its use of found footage.
Co-written by actor Ira Gansler (he plays the Woodsman), as well as director Henrique Couto, the film opens with cards explaining how the content of the film came to be. The video was cut by the District Attorney’s Office in Suffolk County to “contextualize the inauspicious events that took place on April 15th,...
The found footage entries in the Amityville series have been hit and miss. The Amityville Haunting featured a few innovative uses of the format, but the minuscule budget and bad acting hampered its potential. Amityville: Vanishing Point was unable to screen in Canada, though it, too, looked very cheap. The seventeenth film in the “franchise,” Amityville: No Escape, adopts two different strategies for its use of found footage.
Co-written by actor Ira Gansler (he plays the Woodsman), as well as director Henrique Couto, the film opens with cards explaining how the content of the film came to be. The video was cut by the District Attorney’s Office in Suffolk County to “contextualize the inauspicious events that took place on April 15th,...
- 6/6/2023
- by Joe Lipsett
- bloody-disgusting.com
Hey creeps, welcome back to the Crypt! Before we get to the revoltin’ reviews, I want to mention that ol’ monstrous Michale Graves has officially launched a Kickstarter to get When Worlds Collide into yer talons and claws, so give it a look-see, and pony up some dough if ya can!
Also of note, this column debuts my new rating system (created by Coffin Club Member #1 Bob Gosh), with every review given between 5 (totally rad) and 1 (totally dogs–t) skulls!
Now, on with the spookshow!
The Funhouse Massacre
• Release Date: In Theaters Now
• Written By: Ben Begley, Renee Dorian
• Directed By: Andy Palmer
• Starring: Robert Englund, Clint Howard, Chasty Ballesteros, Scottie Thompson
Roll up, roll up, and let’s feast our putrid peepers on the new fright flick The Funhouse Massacre. Will it have the goods to slake our unending thirst for monsters and mayhem, or will it be the...
Also of note, this column debuts my new rating system (created by Coffin Club Member #1 Bob Gosh), with every review given between 5 (totally rad) and 1 (totally dogs–t) skulls!
Now, on with the spookshow!
The Funhouse Massacre
• Release Date: In Theaters Now
• Written By: Ben Begley, Renee Dorian
• Directed By: Andy Palmer
• Starring: Robert Englund, Clint Howard, Chasty Ballesteros, Scottie Thompson
Roll up, roll up, and let’s feast our putrid peepers on the new fright flick The Funhouse Massacre. Will it have the goods to slake our unending thirst for monsters and mayhem, or will it be the...
- 11/16/2015
- by DanielXIII
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
Stars: Dave Parker, Haley Jay Madison, Alison Egan, Erin R. Ryan, Joni Durian, Josh Miller, Brandon Salkil | Written and Directed by Dustin Mills
If there’s one thing you can say about director Dustin Mills, it’s that he never ceases to surprise… From the puppet-based terrors of Easter Casket, Puppet Monster Massacre and Snuffet, to the living-dead horrors of Bath Salt Zombies and Zombie A-Hole; to his foray into Grindhouse-esque exploitation via his Crumpleshack Films shingle – of which Applecart is the latest release – the man crosses genres, bends stereotypes and mixes tropes unlike any other filmmaker I can think of working today.
His work, despite the independent ethos behind it, is – at its core – the very antithesis of the auteur theory. Which means you never truly know what to expect from his movies; and I certainly never expected this!
Applecart is a strange beast. A portmanteau film connected by ideas of love,...
If there’s one thing you can say about director Dustin Mills, it’s that he never ceases to surprise… From the puppet-based terrors of Easter Casket, Puppet Monster Massacre and Snuffet, to the living-dead horrors of Bath Salt Zombies and Zombie A-Hole; to his foray into Grindhouse-esque exploitation via his Crumpleshack Films shingle – of which Applecart is the latest release – the man crosses genres, bends stereotypes and mixes tropes unlike any other filmmaker I can think of working today.
His work, despite the independent ethos behind it, is – at its core – the very antithesis of the auteur theory. Which means you never truly know what to expect from his movies; and I certainly never expected this!
Applecart is a strange beast. A portmanteau film connected by ideas of love,...
- 3/27/2015
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
We've seen numerous slashers stalking the halls of many different houses on sorority row so it only makes sense that sooner or later at least one of these establishments would end up being on the haunted side of the fence.
Directed by Henrique Couto, Haunted House on Sorority Row stars Joni Durian, Erin R. Ryan, Brandi Baird, Tara Clark, and Hayley Jay Madison.
Synopsis
A fledgling sorority has just purchased their new home, but the inexpensive beat-up house has a history no one could imagine. Now, as they move in and continue their college lives, something evil is making itself known by affecting their minds... and bodies.
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Directed by Henrique Couto, Haunted House on Sorority Row stars Joni Durian, Erin R. Ryan, Brandi Baird, Tara Clark, and Hayley Jay Madison.
Synopsis
A fledgling sorority has just purchased their new home, but the inexpensive beat-up house has a history no one could imagine. Now, as they move in and continue their college lives, something evil is making itself known by affecting their minds... and bodies.
Visit The Evilshop @ Amazon!
Got news? Click here to submit it!
Start haunting in the comments section below!
- 1/14/2014
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
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