Horror Movie Review: Amityville Scarecrow 2 (2022)

Released in 2021, Amityville Scarecrow was a so-so British horror movie from Jagged Edge Productions that had little connection to the original horror of 112 Ocean Avenue. Yet, it had more than most movies that come out with Amityville in the title. Even if this film’s idea absurdly put the house in England, and had the land it once stood on, be cursed.

It’s that curse which resurrected a child abusing handyman inside the body of a scarecrow. One that would then target the current owners of the land, all while they dealt with their own drama.

Written by Craig McLearie and directed by Adam Cowie, Amityville Scarecrow 2 continues this story, but is set one year after the events of the first movie.

Sisters Tina (Amanda Jade-Tyler) and Mary (Kate Sandison) are planning to reopen the camp. You know, the same one that sits on the cursed land of Amityville and is where all the events of the first film took place. It’s doesn’t seem like the smartest decision, not just because of you know, the curse, but because neither are quite over the trauma they experienced the year before.

Their decision to re-open will turn out to be a big mistake unsurprisingly, as a new cast (unless you regularly watch Jagged Edge Productions films) are picked off by a killer scarecrow. Has the entity returned? Or is there something even darker going on this time?

Whereas the first movie was at least passable, this sequel is just trash. Its story is even more absurd and even less fleshed out. The cast, who are all fine, are saddled with characters that are simply bland and boring. The killer scarecrow looks worse than it did in the first film, and the gore effects are lacklustre at best.

Amityville Scarecrow 2’s biggest crime, though? It’s just so dull. Horror should never be this tedious. It’s not as though expectations were high or anything but even the low bar set by the first film isn’t reached here.