Needless to say that my expectations for this 2021 movie titled "Amityville Vampire" weren't exactly high or anything, as I sat down to watch the movie without ever having heard of it beforehand. But given the endless tirade of one bad Amityville movie after another, of course I didn't think this would be any better.
But I do believe in giving a movie a fair chance, and thus I opted to sit down to watch "Amityville Vampire" from writers Carlos Perez and Tim Vigil.
Of course this movie was bad. Of course it was. Had I expected otherwise? No, not really. But there was an odd, although unlikely, chance that the movie would prove to break the streak of the one-bad-Amityville-movie-after-another streak, right? Sure, but "Amityville Vampire" was not the movie that would break that streak.
I must admit that I was initially lured in by the movie's cover and also the word Amityville, on the odd chance that the movie would prove to be anything even remotely close to what the original 1979 "The Amityville Horror" movie. The movie's cover was interesting to me, but ultimately it was actually the best thing about the entire ordeal.
The storyline told in "Amityville Horror" was about as appealing and well-written as something you'd find in an elementary school term paper. Yeah, so don't go expecting a grand cinematic masterpiece here.
The acting in the movie was wooden and rigid, with most actors and actresses putting on barely passable performances. Yeah, it had that particularly amateurish feel to it throughout the entire movie. But then again, you have an actress named Jin N. Tonic to star in the movie, so go figure...
Visually then "Amityville Vampire" was nothing to write home about. Sure, the practical and special effects served their purposes, but you will not find yourself in for a spectacle of grand effects here.
This is by no means a movie that I would recommend you waste your time, money or effort on. Some of us did so you don't have to.
My rating of director Tim Vigil's 2021 movie lands on a very generous two out of ten stars.
