The Amityville Haunting

The Amityville Haunting

Be warned, the footage is real.

Directed by Geoff Meed

Produced by The Asylum

201186 min3.9 / 10

A found-footage haunted house film that trades on paranoia and the Amityville legend to generate dread through surveillance-style documentation of a family's deteriorating situation.

This movie is a 'found-footage' film about the Benson family who move in to the infamous house where the DeFeo family were murdered in the 1970s over 30 years earlier. Things start happening to anyone who visits this house, and whoever lives there. This is the footage retrieved from the camera.

Questions people ask

  • Does The Amityville Haunting end with hope? No. Less hopeful than 91% of films.

  • Is The Amityville Haunting scary? Yes. More frightening than 87% of films.

  • Is The Amityville Haunting easy watching? Not especially. Less comforting than 74% of films.

  • Is The Amityville Haunting violent? Somewhat. More violent than 59% of films.

  • Is The Amityville Haunting sad? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

9/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Conventional, and it does not land.

Rarity27

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise4

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love3

How much audiences actually like it

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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