You Get: 'The Amityville Horror'.

'Amityville Horror' does not benefit from using an 'eerie' controversial playpen as its subject matter; but then again, 'Amityville Horror' does not benefit from being 'it' alone, too. In some distributed moments of the film I had asked myself: 'What do I get from watching this?'. I'll get 'The Amityville Horror'.

Nothing else that your optimistic and assumption-filled heart desires to acquire.

The controversial playpen features the DeFeos, the family without debate that was brutally murdered by 23-year old son, Ron as the ex-owner of the Amityville house. Soon that is sooner than we want to, the family of Lutzes enters the movie. George (Ryan Reynolds) and wife (Melissa George) alongside her three daughters move into an oddly located house (which brings me back to a n invariable debate: 'why do suburbs horrors feature characters who moves in to places that they know will only bring terror as the director signals?).

Answer to my previous question, in this movie's reality: The offer was a steal considering the sweeping area and the inversely proportional price; and Kathy, the wife persuades George to pay in an instant. Thus, we now have a family to move and a father that is broke.

Soon the Lutzes will be enveloped with 28 days of terror (a ghostly apparition from last year's DeFeos murder; a fiendish conscience behind George's mind; and himself going for a little shade of 'The Shining') and will find themselves determined to get out. If there's any way.

Commendable is the improvements of the acting. Dubious about Reynolds', a flickering streak as though of a lightning struck me and in fact surprised me that he could act like in here. He was at times calculated, but boy, he is an improvement.

Conventional; albeit it generates a decent amount of modern and stark shocks. If a phrase could easily define this so so remake of a so so original, it would be the latter. We are rather tired of the formula: 'family moves in + someone gets cavin fever + everybody goes mad to get out of the house'.

I am soberly positive that I have not took sight the visibility of the identity of the main force (the voice behind George's mind): 'Catch them, kill them...' and all that blah. Do we know who it was? No. Does it make connection with the Lutzes? The DeFeos? Except from being so fiendish to dictate murdering behind a poor vulnerable Ryan Reynold mind. Boo-hoo.

Again, that question resides and never emigrates... "What do you get from watching this?" Well, if you are thirsty for some of Reynold's ripped body sweat you get a damn lot, but outside of that... You get: 'The Amityville Horror'. -- a so so film.