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AMITYVILLE HORROR remake Teaser Trailer - in better quality
Hey folks, Harry here... The original AMITYVILLE HORROR was one of those movies that I saw as a young impressionable young boy that really, seriously fucked with me. I could handle Romero's Zombies... I could party with Hooper's BBQ Family here in Texas. But that fucking house. I lived in a house that looked too much like it. I chopped wood with my father in the backyard... and if you've ever met my dad, you have probably thought that Father Geek was just a half twitch from being an axe murderer. But that movie... it made the creaking of my ol Victorian house mean things. The narrow stairwells... floorboards that didn't always make a noise... but sometimes they did. Flies... And that lullabye... Fuck that music man. That was some creepy shit.
Now they've gone and remade it. And the trailer is creeping me out... AGAIN. So not fair. I thought I'd moved past my Amityville fears. But here they are... all creeping back up in my life.
Click here to start swatting at flies you'll feel crawling on your neck while watching this teaser!
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is no James Brolin.
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COME ON HARRY, ADMIT IT!! YOU LOVE THIS NEW SHIT!!!
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you are absolutely right, thank god.
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Is growing on me....it must be the beard.
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They are going to remake the movie, only this time, make it scary. Now that's original.
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It wasn't scary you pansy! And it's not a true story, nothing happened at that house with regards to ghosts or ghastly things happening.
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Pity Blade III was such a load of cat turds.
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Dec 17, 2004 10:00:59 PM CST
Is it a requirement that Mr. Lutz needs to have a hillbilly boy
by boris the blade
My lack of faith in this remake is disturbing.
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The original is a stupid movie, and not scary. It may have been when you were younger, but watch it now - if your not about 15 or younger you'll realise how bad it really is: a blue pig in the window, gee how scary; a stairway bannister that bites, how stupid; and "he shot em in the head!" - one of the dumnest, most unsubtle lines I've ever heard in a movie. It's probably what drove Margot Kidder nuts, thats how bad it was. This new version looks pretty good though. It looks like a more serious attempt at horror - and not campy like the other one was. I like the documentary feel of the clippings referring back the murder. Just make sure its R-rated; show us the murders - that would be cool.
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The original was pathetic even when I was 7. I remember being scared by the previews and my big brother working me up before we saw it. But other than that, for a kid who would watch Nighmare on Elm street and Alien - it really did bore me.
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Hope they do Jody justice.
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But I sicerely believe that this trailer was pretty good. How I'd wish that it were an indication of the quality of the final movie.
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Hell, I read the book long before I saw the movie. I read it when I was about 10, and it didn't scare me. The movie, however, I saw for the first time about two years ago, and it creeped the hell out of me. Not a perfect movie at all, but definitely effective. The pig in the window at the end was pretty bad, but the eyes outside the window and the red room beneath the stairs....eeesh. And I thought the scene where the babysitter is locked in the closet was masterfully done. You keep expecting something to happen through the whole scene, keep expecting something to get her, to scare the everloving piss out of her, but nothing happens. Usually that would be a letdown or a predictable cliche, but the director pulled it off very well. And that music....
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is a twat. He's one the major things wrong with Blade 3. And didn't we just see his ass with that same fucking beard? Is that beard gonna become his trademark?
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Dec 18, 2004 12:37:09 AM CST
Everyone knows that the Amityville story was a hoax, right?
by napoleondynamite
It was all just bullshit made up to sell a book. Read about it here: http://www.csicop.org/si/2003-01/amityville.html. Why anyone would still have any interest in this crap is beyond me. There is no such thing as ghosts. The people who believe shit like Amityville probably also think you can hear voices of dead people in radio static.
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Dec 18, 2004 1:48:22 AM CST
Just when I thought talkbackers had bitched about everything...
by ashfett
I always figure people on here must have finally run out of new things to bitch about, but then someone complains about Ryan Reynolds having a beard for two movies in a row! Because god forbid an actor have the same amount of facial hair in two films he does back to back. That is clearly unacceptable. If you are clean shaven in one movie, you must have some facial hair in the next. If you have a full beard in one movie, you must shave at least part of it in your next film. Those are the rules that our cinematic society has lived by and it's just shocking that Reynolds dare break them.
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Dec 18, 2004 4:02:54 AM CST
Wasn't the origional a piece of over-hyped and fraudulent shit?
by sepulchrave
I seem to remember an absolutely rotten movie, like a fast-food version of the Shining, with Brolin chopping endless logs while his family try to pretend that he's not going bats. Add to thast Rod Steiger in serious career decline and Margot Kidder smoking in her underwear (a grim foreshadow of her later fate, wandering around NYC in her cacs, absolutely loo-lah) and you ahve a film that was cursed and wasn't even good. Bet this turns out to be another satanic B-movie. Terrible reviews and the entire cast wiped out by carnivorous crows, flying sheets of plate glass and angry Rottweilers with red eyes.
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I guess it is part 3 or something. And she's FINE! The remake seens decent, at least it looks like a serious horror movie, unlike these "original" movie crap Post-scream like Jason X, Bride/seed/dog of chucky etc.
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You certainly can't make it any shittier than the original. Not even if you filmed it inside a Honeybucket and tipped it over.
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From that trailer it's hard to tell whether this will just be another over-produced remake ala Texax Chainsaw Massacre or be geuinely spooky. I REALLY hope it is spooky, there's not much they need to do, they've already got THAT house and if they do keep THAT la la music then that's half the work done right there. But they gotta keep it pretty raw, realistic and grim, and from this trailer I'm not sure...Anyways I always prefered the sequel The Possession, that was were the real story was told anyway. (by 'real' I don't mean true) Remake THAT instead, incest and parricide and an angry Burt Young, how can it fail?
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So the claim is that the kid was possessed by indian burial gound demons and he went on a killing rampage, then told authorities thats what happened... New folks move in, all happy family in the american dream, and withina month the house is so haunted it drives them out. But having just spent the last 3 hours reading up, the kid was a heroin adict and a spoiled rotten kid with a bad relationship with his Parents, He collected guns and often threatened to kill his Father, a couple time pointing a gun at him. Once he pulled a gun on his friend too. So one night he shoots everyone in the house, wraps up the gun and dumps it, goes to work the next day and makes a point of continually calling his home, and continually makes a point that something is strange, theres no answer. For a time, the police don't suspect him as the killer and follow his suggestion that a Mob friend killed them. Only when the police find all his guns, in a box labled with all of them, the discover one is missing. The bullets in the murder are the same as the gun that is missing. From here he uses all manner of excuses and stories of what really happened. That the mob used him, that he saw them dead but then left, and one of them being demonic possession. The second family moves in, fully aware but not caring of the story of the house. They elaborate a haunting story to get out of a morgage and sell the story to the media. In paranormal questioning it's discovered that the dude who made the story up was a student of demons and possession and the occult. But he claimed he only started to look up this knowledge after he'd moved in, which turns out to be false. He often evades the hard questions and his story doesn't always match up with different people. Having just read all about this, I'll see this film, but I think the 'True Story' claim needs to be looked at somewhat, and particularly - the real true story would make for a much more interesting film.
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Dec 18, 2004 12:32:36 PM CST
i shat myself then, and i will shit myself now. end of.
by thethingfromthes
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I mean before 1989, most horror movies made were really scary. Examples...Night of the living dead,The Fog,Texas Chainsaw Massacare 1,2,Return of the Living Dead,Nightmare on Elm Street 1,2,3, The Hills have Eyes,just to name a few.The remakes so far have been shitty but i guess it's just because the originals of all of those movies i just named were so unGodly frightening. The original Living Dead series scared me so bad i still won't watch them alone...speaking of why no news or set reports from Land of The Dead?
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The one with Meg Ryan. It's a shitty movie, but "fun" to watch.
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Dec 18, 2004 2:55:16 PM CST
Lousy remake of a lousy film that opened a lousy series all base
by salvatoregravano
No, I don't intend to watch even the trailer, not to mention the actual "film".
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The Amityvile Bolux.
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What a godawful shitstain attempt to cash in on the original, as were the other sequels. Lousy story and directing, bad writing, the guy porking his sister (and she got naked for him and thought nothing of it. Riiiiiight.), the horribly bad Excorcist ripoff toward the end, etc. What a lousy, lousy movie. I've only seen part 4 out of the other sequels, and while it wasn't very good, it was better than the second one. Yech.
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I like it
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No seriously, before she was getting succesfull in the mainstream industry she was one hot softcore porn babe! :)
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look at some of you guys moaning on about how they shouldnt make the movie or call it a true story because its about ghosts and shit that probably isnt true, and also saying how can we want to go see such a movie, theres someone you should tell your theories to, THE COHEN BROTHERS, check out the opening credits of FARGO...BASED ON A TRUE STORY. in an interview they asked will h macy how much he looked into the real story for the character and he tells them he asked the cohen if he should and they told him they just made the true story stuff up. he told them they cant do that and joel said why not? its there script, its a fictional story who cares? i mean charlie kaufman said adaptation was written by charlie and andy, both got oscar nominated and theyre both him!! whats good enough for cohen brothers is good enough for the bloody amityville horror!
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Dec 18, 2004 11:20:07 PM CST
So, Harry, how much did they pay you to hype up this flick?
by scarstar
This trailer did nothing for me. Let's do the horror movie trailer check list, shall we? Grainy crime scene/police interview footage? Check! Based on a "true" story? Check! Happy "Beaver Cleaver" family check in as victims? Check! "It was a dark and stormy night"? Check! Jump cuts galore? Check! No original ideas in Hollywood? Check! Looks like I'll wait and rent the DVD...
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Dec 19, 2004 4:22:03 AM CST
so instead of making what? "part 9" its remakes for everything?
by paul allen voiq
Well this new trend of remaking horror films instead of new ideas seems to be all the craze. But honestly do they really think this will make more money than bankrolling a good new idea? I mean the amitiville films are fucking dead as Robert Stacks. They already made like 8 or 10 of these shitfests. Gee anyone remember the one where there was no house at all? Just a lamp or dollhouse or something that was haunted? Hey If you think im making this up check it out for yourself. I must say I liked the firt 2 follow ups. Meg Ryan in her first roll as a teen slut. Don't like my spelling? well then...you can go to hell too!!
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Dec 19, 2004 6:15:37 AM CST
"Gee anyone remember the one where there was no house at all?"
by judge doom
Damn, I remember that crap! I guess they didn't had the money to shot in that big house, so they burn it (?) and saved only a lamp from it (??) and some people bought it. They put it on some suburban house and the ghosts or whatever were hiden inside (???) for some reason._____ Better not remember the one about the Dollhouse...
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Dec 19, 2004 11:00:58 AM CST
OH, my fucking god...go to quicktime and see the new xXx trailer
by empyreal0
Hate to say it, but the Cube looks like a little pansy.
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i was about 15 when this suckfest aired on TV. the genius of this movie was in somehow 'creating a buzz' that this "is a true story"! or some such BS. you then sat for 2 hours desperately waiting for something, anything to happen... of course it didn't. in the end, YES, WE BELIEVE IT WAS A TRUE STORY CAUSE NOTHING HAPPENED DAMNIT!!!! just what might have been red eyes outside (a stray dog maybe) and the one 'shock' scene where a cat jumps up suddenly onto a windowsill.... a sequel... will there be CGI pig eyes and a CGI cat jumping onto the window sill???? I CAN'T WAIT!!!
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but this trailer looked halfway decent...the music was eerie as hell
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Dec 20, 2004 12:59:58 AM CST
YA KNOW, IT'S THE MIDDLE OF XMAS MOVIE RELEASE TIME, AND WE HAVE
by ted striker
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Dec 20, 2004 2:39:23 AM CST
Hey, if it weren't for the talkback I'd never leave the porn
by theginger twit
This is a joke. To make you laugh. Oh c'mon, like you don't look at tits and arse and the occasional doodle.
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...my older brother to script the remake. He made the Amityville Horror (botht he book and the film) much scarier for me as a kid by pointing out that our house shared the exact same floorplan as the one shown in the book. He then told me the abridged version of the story behind the story (the murders at the house) and gave me the book to read, making an off-hand remark about how his room was right where the troubled eldest boy's room had been. Then, in the week it took me to read the book, he started acting all goofy... playing with his bb guns in front of me and telling me he'd found where dad his his hunting rifles. I barely slept that whole month. I didn't sweat the ghost stuff until the movie came out and my brother actually painted the little room under our basement stairs blood red, then brought me down to show it to me and wound up barricading me inside for about an hour. Screamed myself hoarse waiting for the floor to open up and the black goo to swallow me. I just don't think a straight up remake of what was otherwise a very mediocre film could be anywhere near as frightening now.
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...is that the original movie WASN'T scary... it was indeed a 70s shitfest... and yet, I remember reading the BOOK when I was probably 12 or so, sitting alone in the basement of an old farmhouse in Kentucky, and nearly shitting myself in terror, trembling, waiting for my parents to get back to the house so I could brave the darkness of the basement area between my chair and the stairwell and make a run for it... the book is SO scary, I don't understand (other than the usual thing about your imagination being scarier than anything they could show you) why they can't make a passable run at it...
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you're putting us on, right? that was hilarious... you're brother is a genius, albeit a warped one. hope you weren't too traumatized, buddy. bet you're looking forward to the remake with fond memories!
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But seriously, let's talk about that beard. It's just not working for me man. It reminds me of when I was in middle school and the New Kids on the Block were huge and Donnie took it upon himself to be the badass of the group by growing that half-assed splotchy facial fuzz. (Please reference Dennis Miller Black & White) This is somewhat similar except this time some executives got together and decided who their demographic was i.e. 18 to 23 year-olds, probably MTV viewers, and people who actually thought Van Wilder was funny. Therefore, Reynolds was the perfect choice. The make-up folks at Dimension called the make-up folks over at WETA and asked for pieces of Gimli's beard because if any of you fucking dipshits actually think that thing is real then I've got another one for you. It involves a red nosed deer who flies around the earth with this fat man once a year. It's time to send a message. Stop supporting this shit. Spend your money elsewhere. Don't see this in the theater. And if you're thinking of waiting for the video release you're just as guilty because that's where the real money is made. I'm off to hunt smurfs.
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Dec 22, 2004 6:05:29 AM CST
The original murders were motivated by drugs and incest, not gho
by trouserpress
The original movie was terrible though. The book is terrifying, so I hope this movie takes more from that and less from the film.
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That's what the original made. In 1979 dollars. So, like, 400M today. Yow
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