Amityville in the Hood

First off yes this is a real film. Well kinda. About a third of this film is footage from other Amityville films. Second this film is so damn awful it makes Leprechaun in the Hood look like an epic. I mean there is nothing remotely good in this film.

This movie is the worst thing I've seen. The acting in the whole thing? Terrible. The CGI? Terrible. These movies have really taken their downfall and should stop making them. I would give this a 0/10 if it was possible, but sadly I couldn't give this piece of garbage the score it deserved.

Sure, I wasn't expecting this 2021 horror movie titled "Amityville in the Hood" to actually have a snowballs chance in Hell of being good, but I still sat down to watch it. Why? Well, because I believe in giving a movie a fair chance. And who knew, maybe writers Jerimiah Douglas and Dustin Ferguson had something up their sleeves.

But no, there was nothing there, and "Amityville in the Hood" was every bit as pointless and ridiculous as I had initially expecting it to be, and then some. It is hard to comprehend why movies like this actually come into existence. I mean, the storyline and concept in this movie was just downright horrible and laughable.

And as for "Amityville in the Hood" being a horror movie, well that might be stretching the term horror quite a bit. Well, unless you consider the lack of a proper script as horror, the total absence of acting talent as horror, or the whole ludicrous concept that is "Amityville in the Hood" as being horror.

Visually then "Amityville in the Hood" was bland, so horribly, horribly bland. The special effects were special alright. And I don't mean that in a good way. It is so bad that it has to be seen and heard to be believed.

The acting performances in "Amityville in the Hood" were rigid, wooden and amateurish. At least I hope the actors and actresses that performed in the movie were having fun making this. I wasn't familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list, and that is usually something that works in favor of a movie. But with "Amityville in the Hood", not so much. Because the actors and actresses virtually had nothing to work with here.

If you enjoy horror movies, just slither on to the next one in line, because "Amityville in the Hood" simply isn't worth squandering your time, money or effort on.

My rating of director Dustin Ferguson's 2021 horror movie "Amityville in the Hood" lands on a staggering one out of ten stars.

CGI 1/10 In the beginning something gets shot through the window of the Amityville house's window, and it looks like a 30x30 pixel sprite. The blood splatter is so wrong it looks like they spit up a handkerchief. The smoke CGI looks like they took it from a 3dxmax smoke tutorial.

Sound 3/10 Bad echoes. It's clear the sound person has the shotgun mics pointed at the wrong people at some points.

Sound effects 3/10 But just wrong. How do you get the gunshot sound so wrong? The only sound that was right was the Siri sound.

Lighting 1/10 The only scenes that are lit well are the ones filmed outside in daylight. Some scenes have harsh red lights for no reason except maybe a lame attempt to portray evil.

Writing 3/10 I've met sailors who swear less than some of the characters. I'm not to if it was writing or editing but one scene has a lady give birth to a daemon baby, then later the same still pregnant lady gets murdered.

The music that isn't stock is painful and repetitive. They inserted a needless driving scene just so they could add a very bad rap song.

This film begins with a couple of thugs entering the infamous house in Amityville to harvest a large amount of marijuana they had planted inside of it earlier. Unfortunately, after filling a large bag of their illegal substance, once outside of the house, they encounter another group of thugs from a rival gang who kill them and take everything they had. The scene then shifts to a police officer in Compton, California by the name of "Detective White" (Thom Michael Mulligan) being asked to investigate a series of bizarre murders resulting from what appears to be the product of a new strain of marijuana which induces homicidal behavior. Or something like that. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that the director (Dustin Ferguson) borrowed heavily from his earlier films "Amityville Toybox" and "Amityville Clownhouse" in the production of this film. And considering that both of these two films were extremely bad, I'm not sure that this was the wisest decision on his part. But I will leave that up to the individual viewer to decide. One thing I can say, however, is that Dustin Ferguson didn't learn much from his previous experiences because this film had the same basic faults as his previous films which includes bad acting, uneven audio technique, awful music and a completely ridiculous plot. That said, as far as his Amityville movies are concerned, the third time is definitely not the charm, and I have rated it accordingly.