Director:
Andrew DouglasCámara:
Peter Lyons CollisterMúsica:
Steve JablonskyReparto:
Ryan Reynolds, Melissa George, Jesse James, Jimmy Bennett, Philip Baker Hall, Rachel Nichols, Chloë Grace Moretz, Marie Joelyn, Rich Komenich (más)Sinopsis(1)
Basada en un suceso real. El 14 de Noviembre de 1974 en Long Island, Nueva York, la policía recibió una escalofriante llamada telefónica que les condujo a una espantosa escena de un crimen en una residencia en Amityville, Long Island. Una familia había sido asesinada en sus propias camas. En los siguientes días, Ronald Defeo confesó que él mismo había disparado a sus padres mientras dormían, culpando a unas voces que le decían que debía matarlos. Un año después, George y Kathy Lutz y sus tres hijos se mudan a la misma casa, creyendo que se trata del hogar de sus sueños. Pero poco después de haberse mudado, extrañas situaciones empiezan a suceder, mientras George comienza a ser atormentado por las voces que existen en la casa. (Disney España)
(más)Reseñas (7)
Una sólida película de terror de casa encantada. Supera a la versión original de 1979 no sólo en el tratamiento técnico, sino también en varias ideas de guión. Al menos en lo que se refiere a la escalada psicológica inicial de la tensión. Porque el final en realidad parece haber salido de un misterio de asesinato sin celebro y mediocre.
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Stupidity to the nth degree, where the only likeable character starts gradually turning to the dark side, at which point all empathy for the family comes to an end. Fortunately, with The Amityville Horror the viewer doesn't even really have a chance to get properly warmed up before the finale comes, which also brings liberation. The result is worse than the poor Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The horror roots occasionally shine through even despite the B-movie production.
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I don't understand what they were hoping for with this masterpiece. It’s the same old tired song again: an idyllic family that has everything going for them moves into a mysterious house infested with evil. Everything goes smoothly at first and everyone is satisfied, but after about thirty minutes, things start to get complicated. First, there are just strange noises, then ghosts, some walking dead, a lot of imaginary blood, ritualistic murders, and more and more nonsense. They wrap it all up in a modern audiovisual package (frantically confusing editing) and present it beautifully polished and scented, but it’s still a massively crappy movie, with tons of clichés, absolute predictability, unbelievable characters, and I could go on listing all the bad and the ugly until the sun comes out. Just another contribution to a brutally declining genre.
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I didn't expect anything special, but the result exceeded even my worst expectations. The filmmakers seem to have taken it into their heads that the phrase "Based on a true story" is an amazing alibi, and so they can stuff this haunted house from basement to attic with a hundred plus clichés. A horror? No, it's not. More like a rehash of any ghost story about a cursed shack, The Ring, The Shining, The Exorcist... And it’s so stupidly written and directed without a drop of suspense! We find out what happened in the house right at the beginning, and from then on we just watch as a new family settles in Amityville, as it slowly and uninterestingly reveals what we already know, as some unfortunate person peeks out from every corner (with the necessary rumblings of Jablonsky's non-music), as the father starts to freak out, as a bad performance is replaced by an even worse one... It wasn't scary, but it was definitely terrible.
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A nice little horror flick. In tingles unpleasantly on the nerves, there is no shortage of nastiness and the less than 80 minutes pass like water. But there is a but. I didn't mind the inspiration from other horror films, but the director's attempt to cram a jump-scare and a horrible vision into every other scene seemed increasingly ridiculous as time went on; and that stupid ending? I'd like to cut it out completely as it takes away all the solid atmosphere and those few good ideas. The filmmakers should have ended it in a science-fiction style instead of pushing something about real events down our throats. 60%
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An enjoyable and entertaining haunting with the good Reynolds and an unnecessarily high number of cheap jump scares.
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I don't like remakes, that's just a given, because I think they're mostly unnecessary films. Of course, there are exceptions that I like, but "3:15 You Die" definitely won't be one of them. Douglas tried to at least scare us, for which he deserves credit, because there are scenes that are truly terrifying. He only added dynamism to the story, which, however, doesn't fit the 70s as much.
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