‘Amityville: Mt. Misery Road’ Is a Short Film Barely Stretched to Feature Length [The Amityville IP]
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.”
There have been some bad Amityville films since we ventured off the path into open IP territory. A lot of filmmakers have used the name recognition of the “franchise” to make a quick buck, albeit to varying degrees of creative success.
While some of the twenty-two films have been…let’s say challenging; at least the vast majority of them have a story to tell. And then there’s Amityville: Mt. Misery Road, which takes a bare bone narrative conceit and stretches it out to 70 minutes.
Yes, folks, welcome to the case of the short that billed itself as a feature.
There’s a kernel of a good idea in the film. Mt. Misery Road hails from multi-hyphenate husband and wife pair Karolina and Chuck Morrongiello,...
There have been some bad Amityville films since we ventured off the path into open IP territory. A lot of filmmakers have used the name recognition of the “franchise” to make a quick buck, albeit to varying degrees of creative success.
While some of the twenty-two films have been…let’s say challenging; at least the vast majority of them have a story to tell. And then there’s Amityville: Mt. Misery Road, which takes a bare bone narrative conceit and stretches it out to 70 minutes.
Yes, folks, welcome to the case of the short that billed itself as a feature.
There’s a kernel of a good idea in the film. Mt. Misery Road hails from multi-hyphenate husband and wife pair Karolina and Chuck Morrongiello,...
- 8/15/2023
- by Joe Lipsett
- bloody-disgusting.com
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