Amityville: The Awakening has a good cast, and, if viewed by a group of rowdy friends late at night, may certainly do its due diligence in periodically startling you for 87 minutes, but never manages to transcend its genre in any meaningful way.
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Slant MagazineChuck Bowen
Slant MagazineChuck Bowen
Franck Khalfoun's Amityville: The Awakening is an elegant entry in a lame series of horror films.
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The A.V. ClubKatie Rife
The A.V. ClubKatie Rife
The script is just as lazy as the acting, leaning on a fitfully applied, Scream-esque meta subplot to justify why the hell we’re all here in the first place.
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We Got This CoveredMatt Donato
We Got This CoveredMatt Donato
Franck Khalfoun’s often-rethought Amityville: The Awakening is sleepover background noise at its best, traceable genre road-mapping at its worst.
