Moving away with her three children, Joan, a single mother moves into the Amityville haunted house to save money for her comatose son’s healthcare. The event is an old subject that has been adapted into 19 movies (six feature films and others went to direct-to-videos) and will make anyone think twice before watching the new film titled Amityville: The Awakening.ĭistributed by Dimension Films, division of The Weinstein Company, the new Amityville film takes place 40 years after November, 1974.

Let’s take the well-known Amityville tragedy for example. Perhaps it’s the looming after effect that makes me think “oh, this has happened before” and it could happen again. I don’t know what about these real-life horror stories turned into movies that makes it scarier. Sometimes the things mentioned above work, but other times real-life events also served the purpose. What makes a good scary movie? Is it the scary ghost, monsters under bed or the storyline? Do you need gory images and jumpy sounds to generate the effects? For me, a good scary movie varies from time to time.

The awakening movie