The Amityville Moon

Well, granted, this 2021 horror movie's cover/poster was actually interesting enough to make me sit down and watch it. And yeah, I was somewhat hesitant, or even skeptical, about watching it, given the fact that the movie had the word "Amityville" in its title. It isn't exactly like movies with that name in the title are known for their great entertainment value.

But still, the movie should be given a fair chance, so I sat down and watched it. And as I had anticipated, then writer and director Thomas J. Churchill just didn't manage to deliver a wholesome movie here. So the curse of the "Amityville" titled movies continues on.

Was "The Amityville Moon" watchable? Sure, but it wasn't a particularly grand or memorable foray into the horror genre. And for this being a werewolf movie, then it was a very weak attempt at a jab at the werewolf sub-genre of horror. At least if there had been more scenes with the actual werewolf, then perhaps "The Amityville Moon" would have been more enjoyable.

The pacing of "The Amityville Moon" was slow and tedious, without much of anything interesting actually happening. So it was a rather dull and monotonous movie experience. And I have to admit that I ended up giving up on finishing the movie without about 20 minutes left, give or take. Yup, the ordeal was that tedious.

The acting in the movie was adequate. You will not be in for any great or memorable acting performances here, nor will you be in for a grand cast ensemble. But in all fairness, then the actors and actresses did an okay job with the limited material they had to work with.

My rating of "The Amityville Moon" lands on a mere three out of ten stars.

This film essentially begins with two young women named "Karla" (Kelsey Zukowski) and "Alyssa" (Alex Rinehart) attempting to escape one night from a rehabilitation center located in Amityville, New York. Although Alyssa manages to crawl out through a window, once outside she turns and, to her horror, watches as some huge beast attacks Karla and rips her to shreds. The scene then shifts to a police officer by the name of "Detective Kimball" (Trey McCurley) being told that these same young women have been reported missing and that his assignment is to track them down and return to the rehabilitation center which they had been remanded to by the court system. At first, he considers this to be a rather routine assignment--but what he doesn't know is that this isn't the first time that a young woman has gone missing from this particular rehab center--and the disappearances always occur on a full moon. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that this was a rather dull horror film due in large part to the lack of action and suspense. Likewise, the script could have used some improvement as well. That being said, although I don't consider this to be a terribly bad horror film necessarily, it isn't something I would honestly recommend, and I have rated it accordingly. Below average.

I'm not sure why all the hate on this one. Yes, it's clearly a B-Rate / C-Rate movie, the acting is not great by any means, and the lighting is pretty dim but for what it is, it's pretty good. They took care, on a very small budget mind you, with limited special effects and put their effort into making a decent werewolf costume and transformation. For a B-Rate, it's a pretty good attempt I'd say. I think for what it is, they did a really good job at working with what they had. Know what it is when you go into it. It's a B movie made for the love of werewolf movies! For those folks like me who hunt for werewolf movies, I thought this was one of the better B attempts out there as far as script, special effects, and choreography were concerned. Solid effort!

At a halfway house in Amityville, NY something is amiss. (Although the setting might as well be Australia for all this movie has to do with The Amityville Horror.) When two detainees are reported missing a cop and an escapee of the facility team up to unravel the mystery. That's a decent enough premise and this movie could have been entertaining despite the obviously low budget, amateur performances and Party City werewolf costume. Unfortunately the central premise only takes up about a quarter of the runtime; the rest is extraneous filler that quickly grows tiresome. There are also several major plot holes that are addressed but never resolved - just acknowledging that things don't make sense doesn't actually correct the problem.

There are actually a few good actors in this film that were credible in their roles, but as a whole I wouldn't waste time on this.