Horror Movie Review: Amityville Cult (2021)

Here we go again. Another movie with the name Amityville plastered all over it while having next to nothing to do with the original horror. Amityville Cult comes from writer/director Trey Murphy and stars Chance Gibbs, Micha Marie Stevens and Tom Young.

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before but Amityville Cult is not a good movie. One of the slowest and most mind-numbingly boring entries in some time and we’ve seen a lot of them. Which is a real shame as it was supposed to be so much more. Instead, we have a no-budget horror that likes to talk about the horror rather than actually show it.

It’s par for the course but regular purveyors of movies with Amityville in the title will still find themselves throwing their arms in the air at the start of the movie. Why? Amityville, Texas. Sure, why the hell not? At least it’s in America and not the UK this time.

Stanley DeFeo (groan) gets a call from a lawyer telling him that a grandmother he never knew he had, has died, and left him her house. A house that is located in Amityville, Texas. That will never not be funny.

He goes, checks it out and that’s about it. Get used to characters walking around, talking and doing nothing else. Even in flashbacks to Stanley’s grandmother Marie (Micha Marie Stevens), this all that happens.

Eventually things start to go bump in the night (sort of) but again, Amityville Cult doesn’t really want you to see it. Instead, characters talk about what they’ve experienced. It’s like listening to an audiobook if the audiobook was narrated by the world’s most boring person.

How about the title? Cult? Well, should you make it to the film’s finale they actually show up but you’ll be shocked to learn that they also like to talk.

Hold on though as the demon is about to make an appearance and it is as underwhelming as you would expect. Amityville Cult is already going under a different name, so if you want to subject yourself to this yawn-inducing non-horror than you can also find it under the name, Amityville Secret.

Don’t bother.