Twice a month Joe Lipsett will dissect a new Amityville Horror film to explore how the “franchise” has evolved in increasingly ludicrous directions. This is “The Amityville IP.”
The single biggest recurring question that has arisen over the course of this editorial series is “what constitutes an Amityville film?” It’s the basic impetus to go through all of these films chronologically, regardless of quality or connective tissue to the original film or the books.
It’s also why complaints in the comments that everything past a certain point (ie: either A New Generation or the remake* apparently) no longer qualifies are immaterial and frankly kinda boring. It’s always been more interesting to consider how and why filmmakers are using “Amityville” in their films – for better or worse.
* If the remake counts, then surely The Amityville Murders also counts, no?
The reality is that, particularly with the last few entries in the “franchise,...
The single biggest recurring question that has arisen over the course of this editorial series is “what constitutes an Amityville film?” It’s the basic impetus to go through all of these films chronologically, regardless of quality or connective tissue to the original film or the books.
It’s also why complaints in the comments that everything past a certain point (ie: either A New Generation or the remake* apparently) no longer qualifies are immaterial and frankly kinda boring. It’s always been more interesting to consider how and why filmmakers are using “Amityville” in their films – for better or worse.
* If the remake counts, then surely The Amityville Murders also counts, no?
The reality is that, particularly with the last few entries in the “franchise,...
- 10/25/2023
- by Joe Lipsett
- bloody-disgusting.com
With the NBC upfronts coming next week, the network made a few preemptive moves by renewing the cult-hit series Chuck and canceling first-season shows The Event and Law & Order: Los Angeles.
The Chuck pick-up comes with a caveat though: the upcoming fifth season will be Chuck's last. NBC ordered 13 new episodes of Chuck, which means the show will likely wrap up sometime in December, with a new series taking over the Monday 8 Pm time slot. Chuck averaged a 2.0 rating with 5.6 million viewers per episode this past season.
As far as The Event, the show may have new life, even after getting the ax from NBC. There are rumors that The Event producers are currently shopping the show to other distributors for another season. Netflix is one of the potential distributors, since they recently started venturing into original programming by picking up the series House of Cards. Other cable networks are...
The Chuck pick-up comes with a caveat though: the upcoming fifth season will be Chuck's last. NBC ordered 13 new episodes of Chuck, which means the show will likely wrap up sometime in December, with a new series taking over the Monday 8 Pm time slot. Chuck averaged a 2.0 rating with 5.6 million viewers per episode this past season.
As far as The Event, the show may have new life, even after getting the ax from NBC. There are rumors that The Event producers are currently shopping the show to other distributors for another season. Netflix is one of the potential distributors, since they recently started venturing into original programming by picking up the series House of Cards. Other cable networks are...
- 5/13/2011
- by MovieWeb
- MovieWeb
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