Now, the word "Amityville" has been a synonym for a low budget, dubious produced movie of questionable entertainment value, yet I keep returning here to watch, hoping for this particular one time is that one time where an "Amityville" movie is a good "Amityville" movie.
And thus, I opted to sit down and watch the 2021 movie "Amityville Scarecrow" from writer Shannon Holiday and director Jack Peter Mundy. I have to be bluntly honest and say that I harbored zero expectations really for this movie, so writer Shannon Holiday and director Jack Peter Mundy had every chance to impress, bedazzle, and most importantly, entertain me.
However they failed to do that. "Amityville Scarecrow" was a slow paced movie driven by an almost non-existing narrative. So it was insanely difficult to find anything worthwhile or enjoyable here as the movie trotted on at a pace that would put a snail to shame.
The acting performances in the movie were fairly wooden and not overly convincing. It felt staged and amateurish at best. There were some familiar faces on the cast list though with Kate Sandison and Nicola Wright, but that is only because I watch way too many low budget B-movies.
For a horror movie then "Amityville Scarecrow" was a swing and a miss. There was nothing scary here at all, unless you consider the insanely slow pacing of the narrative as being scary. So if you enjoy horror movies, you will not be in for a particular treat here, should you opt to watch "Amityville Scarecrow", which I don't recommend you do - some of us suffered through this, so you don't have to.
Visually then "Amityville Scarecrow" was not impressive either.
My rating of "Amityville Scarecrow" lands on a two out of ten stars.