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.”
One year after the release of Amityville Scarecrow, we get the sequel Amityville Scarecrow 2 (2022). Unlike other sequels in the “franchise,” however, this second entry boasts an entirely new creative team. Stepping in as director is Adam Cowie, while Craig McLearie takes over writing duties.
Amityville Scarecrow 2 picks up two years after the events of the first film. Adult sisters Tina (Amanda-Jade Tyler) and Mary (Kate Sandison) are no longer estranged, and they’re still aiming to re-open the cursed family campground, though they’re rapidly running out of money.
Mary’s daughter Harriet (Sofia Lacey) is also still around, though she confides in boyfriend Dylan (Dan Robins) that she’s ready to move on. She just can’t find the words to tell her mother.
One year after the release of Amityville Scarecrow, we get the sequel Amityville Scarecrow 2 (2022). Unlike other sequels in the “franchise,” however, this second entry boasts an entirely new creative team. Stepping in as director is Adam Cowie, while Craig McLearie takes over writing duties.
Amityville Scarecrow 2 picks up two years after the events of the first film. Adult sisters Tina (Amanda-Jade Tyler) and Mary (Kate Sandison) are no longer estranged, and they’re still aiming to re-open the cursed family campground, though they’re rapidly running out of money.
Mary’s daughter Harriet (Sofia Lacey) is also still around, though she confides in boyfriend Dylan (Dan Robins) that she’s ready to move on. She just can’t find the words to tell her mother.
- 2/6/2024
- by Joe Lipsett
- bloody-disgusting.com
Stars: Stephanie Lodge, Sophie Jugé, Barbara Dabson, Karell Vertet, Lee Hancock, Elspeth Foster, Richard Kovacs, Kate Sandison | Written by Sophie Storm K | Directed by Adam Cowie
Before going viral with Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, writer, director and producer Scott Jeffrey was already tapping classic fairytales, myths and legends for his low-budget British horror companies Jagged Edge Productions and Proportion Productions – taking familiar childhood tropes and turning them on their heads, oftentimes making a bright, cheerful kids thing onto a film of sheer terror. That path has given us killer tooth fairies, evil leprechauns, a demonic cupid, a terrifying Humpty Dumpty and a Hills Have Eyes-esque duo of Jack and Jill… Perennial kid’s nursery rhyme characters turned into a couple of inbred, hillside-dwelling psychopathic killers!
Unfortunately for The Legend of Jack and Jill things fell a little flat thanks to the one-dimensional characters and the fact it wasn’t really that scary.
Before going viral with Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, writer, director and producer Scott Jeffrey was already tapping classic fairytales, myths and legends for his low-budget British horror companies Jagged Edge Productions and Proportion Productions – taking familiar childhood tropes and turning them on their heads, oftentimes making a bright, cheerful kids thing onto a film of sheer terror. That path has given us killer tooth fairies, evil leprechauns, a demonic cupid, a terrifying Humpty Dumpty and a Hills Have Eyes-esque duo of Jack and Jill… Perennial kid’s nursery rhyme characters turned into a couple of inbred, hillside-dwelling psychopathic killers!
Unfortunately for The Legend of Jack and Jill things fell a little flat thanks to the one-dimensional characters and the fact it wasn’t really that scary.
- 1/25/2023
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Stars: Ella Starbuck, Dan Robins, Bar Ties, Lucinda Nicole, Elspeth Foster, Lewis Sycamore, Stephen Staley, Alex Quinn | Written by Craig McLearie | Directed by Ian David Diaz
The first thing you notice about Conjuring the Genie 2 is the opening credits. Now that might sound like a weird thing to say but a lot of these direct to AVOD releases from Proportion Productions/Jagged Edge Productions – who co-produced this film (even though both are owned and operated by Scott Jeffrey) – feature what look to be temp credits… plain fonts on black screen(s) and often times have a totally different on-screen title to what the film is listed under on places like Amazon Prime Video and even YouTube! So to see a film that has clearly had some thought put into the appearance and the stylistics, of the credits is – hopefully – a sign of good things to come.
Unlike the last film,...
The first thing you notice about Conjuring the Genie 2 is the opening credits. Now that might sound like a weird thing to say but a lot of these direct to AVOD releases from Proportion Productions/Jagged Edge Productions – who co-produced this film (even though both are owned and operated by Scott Jeffrey) – feature what look to be temp credits… plain fonts on black screen(s) and often times have a totally different on-screen title to what the film is listed under on places like Amazon Prime Video and even YouTube! So to see a film that has clearly had some thought put into the appearance and the stylistics, of the credits is – hopefully – a sign of good things to come.
Unlike the last film,...
- 12/1/2022
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Stars: Amber Doig-Thorne, Dan Robins, Charlie Esquire, Stephen Staley, Natasha Rose Mills, Elspeth Foster, Asian Dixon | Written by Ben Daly | Directed by David Gregory
After Lisa’s brother mysteriously dies, she and her college friends go to her family home for answers. They are shocked to discover that his killer was non-the than the Christmas demon, Krampus.
Not to be confused with the Robert Conway written and directed Krampus franchise, nor Scott Jeffrey’s Other production company, Proportion Productions, own Mother Krampus films, Krampus: The Return – as it’s called on Amazon Prime Video and not the IMDb-listed title The Return of Krampus (talk about arguing over semantics!) – is another of the now long-running, totally unconnected, series of direct to market horrors than were spawned by 2015’s big-budget Krampus movie. A movie that has a Lot to answer for!
Why? Well has there been a truly great Krampus movie since that one?...
After Lisa’s brother mysteriously dies, she and her college friends go to her family home for answers. They are shocked to discover that his killer was non-the than the Christmas demon, Krampus.
Not to be confused with the Robert Conway written and directed Krampus franchise, nor Scott Jeffrey’s Other production company, Proportion Productions, own Mother Krampus films, Krampus: The Return – as it’s called on Amazon Prime Video and not the IMDb-listed title The Return of Krampus (talk about arguing over semantics!) – is another of the now long-running, totally unconnected, series of direct to market horrors than were spawned by 2015’s big-budget Krampus movie. A movie that has a Lot to answer for!
Why? Well has there been a truly great Krampus movie since that one?...
- 10/18/2022
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Stars: Antonia Whillans, Elspeth Foster, Beatrice Fletcher, Abi Casson Thompson, Darrell Griggs, Michael Hoad | Written by Tom Jolliffe | Directed by Soner Metin
Not to be confused with the Hugh Jackman film of the same name, this Van Helsing, originally titled Wrath of Van Helsing, is a British film from producer Scott Jeffrey and his Jagged Edge Productions. And regular readers of this site will know what that means…
Four English lasses Ellie, Briony, Alex, and Shauna are going hiking.
And where you may ask are they going hiking in fishnet stockings and thigh-high boots? The Zone, which they must have thought was a goth club. Actually, it’s a fenced-off nuclear dumping ground, England’s answer to Chernobyl. And not only is it fenced off, but there’s also garlic on the road into it. So it’s no surprise when they get attacked by hooded, neck-bitting creatures.
Meanwhile, Ellie...
Not to be confused with the Hugh Jackman film of the same name, this Van Helsing, originally titled Wrath of Van Helsing, is a British film from producer Scott Jeffrey and his Jagged Edge Productions. And regular readers of this site will know what that means…
Four English lasses Ellie, Briony, Alex, and Shauna are going hiking.
And where you may ask are they going hiking in fishnet stockings and thigh-high boots? The Zone, which they must have thought was a goth club. Actually, it’s a fenced-off nuclear dumping ground, England’s answer to Chernobyl. And not only is it fenced off, but there’s also garlic on the road into it. So it’s no surprise when they get attacked by hooded, neck-bitting creatures.
Meanwhile, Ellie...
- 6/23/2022
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
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