The Amityville Moon (2021) User Reviews

Terrible, Just Terrible.

[rpaleschi · 2/10 · 6 October 2021]

I'm a huge fan of werewolf movies and if they have a low budget then I honestly don't mind how bad the effects are. The werewolf in this was actually ok but the film was so dark that you could barely see anything.

The story really let this down and it dragged until I couldn't care less what happened to any of the characters.

Not one to recommend I'm afraid and best avoided.

If you haven't seen it then Late Phases is a way better werewolf movies.

Uneventful movie...

[paul_haakonsen · 3/10 · 7 October 2021]

Well, granted, this 2021 horror movie's cover/poster was actually interesting enough to make me sit down and watch it. And yeah, I was somewhat hesitant, or even skeptical, about watching it, given the fact that the movie had the word "Amityville" in its title. It isn't exactly like movies with that name in the title are known for their great entertainment value.

But still, the movie should be given a fair chance, so I sat down and watched it. And as I had anticipated, then writer and director Thomas J. Churchill just didn't manage to deliver a wholesome movie here. So the curse of the "Amityville" titled movies continues on.

Was "The Amityville Moon" watchable? Sure, but it wasn't a particularly grand or memorable foray into the horror genre. And for this being a werewolf movie, then it was a very weak attempt at a jab at the werewolf sub-genre of horror. At least if there had been more scenes with the actual werewolf, then perhaps "The Amityville Moon" would have been more enjoyable.

The pacing of "The Amityville Moon" was slow and tedious, without much of anything interesting actually happening. So it was a rather dull and monotonous movie experience. And I have to admit that I ended up giving up on finishing the movie without about 20 minutes left, give or take. Yup, the ordeal was that tedious.

The acting in the movie was adequate. You will not be in for any great or memorable acting performances here, nor will you be in for a grand cast ensemble. But in all fairness, then the actors and actresses did an okay job with the limited material they had to work with.

My rating of "The Amityville Moon" lands on a mere three out of ten stars.

They Say

[nogodnomasters · 4/10 · 20 October 2021]

The film opens with a werewolf attack (I thought it was Bigfoot) in Amityville. We jump to 10 years later to the St. Matthews rehabilitation house for hot looking girls. Two girls plan an escape. Alyssa makes it out (Alex Rinehart) another one who hesitates is eaten by a werewolf. He who hesitates is lunch. They inform the police about the missing girls. Detective. Robbie Kimball (Trey McCurley) forced to light duty investigates and finds Alyssa at a biker bar and drives her back. She tells the detective the other girl is dead and was eaten by a wolf.

This is another of a dozen films that has Amityville in the title because Bugtussle Moon would not sell. The plot takes a bit long to develop. Lots of leg. Not on any must see list.

Guide: No swearing, sex, or nudity. No showers. No girl-girl scene. No seance.

Really? a wolf suit

[alfredbullock · 1/10 · 5 October 2021]

There are actually a few good actors in this film that were credible in their roles, but as a whole I wouldn't waste time on this.

Waste of TIME

[mkbshenal · 1/10 · 5 October 2021]

Seriously, what a waste of time!? Lionsgate used to be a sign of quality. This is so sad that its making low budget cheap movies. Though there are some good actors, the productions is so bad.

It was not as bad as portrayed

[pharri-217-968566 · 5/10 · 30 October 2021]

It was decent movie. I definitely seen a lot worse. The story was pretty good but you really don't find out till the end.

The werewolf was fairly decent as far as makeup again there are much worse portrayals of werewolves in some of the movies out there.

Ugh...pure pain

[BandSAboutMovies · 2/10 · 26 November 2021]

To the tune of "The Ghost of Tom Joad" by Bruce Springsteen:

Man walking through the Walmart store

Has so many DVDs, needs so many more

Looking at covers to see what catches the eye

What number Amityville is this, seventy-five?

Is that a werewolf I spy on the case?

What's next Amityville in Space?

My wife sleeps as I watch all this mess

No taste, no standards, no limits, no rest

(Chorus)

Well, the internet highway is alive tonight

But nobody's kidding this movie's any good

I'm sitting down here in front of my TV

Watching the multiple ghosts of Ron DeFeo

Now Sam said, "Wherever there's a cop comes from Amityville

Wherever a hungry Amityville shark appears

Where there's a monkey that's possessed and a 1/2 star review in the air

Look for me, I'll be there

Wherever a family fights a possessed clock

Or an evil lamp or is in 3D

Wherever a demon is trying to get free

Look in their eyes and you'll see me

You'll see me!

So this movie -- surprise! -- has nothing to do with Amityville. It does have something to do with a halfway house and a werewolf and how did Lions Gate, a somewhat major studio, sully their hands with this?

Thomas J. Churchill also made The Amityville Harvest, which I'm sure I'll be watching soon enough, and just finished Amityville Uprising, in which "a chemical blast at a military base sets off a supernatural disaster in this tense action-horror thriller." Oh no. Oh no...

This also has Cody Renee Cameron in it, whose IMDB describes her as "a cool cocktail comprised of raw acting talent & badass stunt work, sprinkled with sexy, then shaken and poured into a chilled glass." She should have written this movie, or maybe her publicist because that's better than anything I just sat through.

Tuesday Knight from A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master is also on hand and she just made a movie called Amityville Bigfoot and seriously, they're just making movies for me now to make me have crossover between my many Letterboxd lists. "The newest entry to the Amityville franchise follows a new story with Bigfoot and a new terror in the very special house" says IMDB. And who directed it? Shawn C. Phillips, who is also making Amityville Karen and Amityville Shark House because we needed two shark movies set in Amityville.

There's also an Amityville Thanksgiving coming.

You know it's bad when Common Sense Media -- in their review of is this movie proper for your family or not -- includes this discussion question: "Families can talk about sequels that aren't really sequels, like The Amityville Moon. Why do you think Hollywood makes so-called "sequels" that have little, if anything, to do with the previous movies in the series?"

I wish my parents had talked to me about Amityville sequels but it's too late. It's just too late. I'm up at 4 in the morning watching movies like this when I should be sleeping. But you need me, don't you, dear reader? If anything, I'm protecting you from 112 Ocean Avenue.

Solid B-Rate effort, good job working with what they had on this werewolf flick

[mangoamante · 4/10 · 9 October 2022]

I'm not sure why all the hate on this one. Yes, it's clearly a B-Rate / C-Rate movie, the acting is not great by any means, and the lighting is pretty dim but for what it is, it's pretty good. They took care, on a very small budget mind you, with limited special effects and put their effort into making a decent werewolf costume and transformation. For a B-Rate, it's a pretty good attempt I'd say. I think for what it is, they did a really good job at working with what they had. Know what it is when you go into it. It's a B movie made for the love of werewolf movies! For those folks like me who hunt for werewolf movies, I thought this was one of the better B attempts out there as far as script, special effects, and choreography were concerned. Solid effort!

Amityville in name only really

[milkhole213 · 4/10 · 14 October 2021]

The Amityville Moon has little to do with the Amityville series except for possibly taking place in that town though we don't see the house or anything nor are there any cursed/haunted objects from it. It's about a halfway house for ex-drug addict junkies with a werewolf stalking and killing them. Much of the film is about these former needle-freaks and seeing as I don't understand addiction nor do I have any empathy these parts fell flat on me. Some nudity or lesbian shenanigans would have livened the movie up. Apparently this is made by some religious nut who is okay with mild swearing but has his tough biker guys say "freakin" and "screw". The acting is intensely mediocre especially that of the main girl. The whole film is shot in a drab and colorless way. There's some bloody werewolf attacks including a woman who has her face clawed off. The werewolf transformation scene is pretty good though nowhere near Baker/Bottin level but at least it was all practical FX. The werewolf suit is pretty good as well though shown sparingly. The sadly too brief werewolf scenes save this from being completely dull. Another very mediocre Walmart horror to add to the pile.

Worse than covid

[bartowlawn · 1/10 · 6 February 2022]

Can't unsee this. I was looking for a movie to watch, I love a werewolf movie even if it's cheesy, I love this genre. Having said this this goes beyond cheesy, this was poorly executed, poorly written, and just a complete waste of time.

Generally fun indie werewolf feature

[kannibalcorpsegrinder · 8/10 · 7 October 2021]

Agreeing to take on a case to reduce his suspension, a troubled cop arrives in a church home looking for a couple of missing residents that no one else can find, but the more he stays around the troubled girls he discovers the true source of the disappearances to be a bloodthirsty werewolf and sets out to stop it.

This one wasn't that bad of a genre feature. Among the more enjoyable features here is the fun setup that brings the film together and offers up the kind of indie charm in this kind of feature. With the cop on his last legs due to the incidents in his past being assigned to what should've been an easy assignment looking into the strange disappearance of the girls from the church home, this is a fantastic setup for this kind of genre feature and really generates a nice mystery involving what's really going on. As the lives of the girls at the home and various backstories, jealousy, and interpersonal history going on there combines together into a highly engaging setup in play here. As well, once the film decides to focus on its creature attacks there's some fun to be had. Generating some cheesy fun with the werewolf popping up out of nowhere and viciously attacking anyone it comes across is all quite charming, and several of the brief attack ambushes also manage to bring about some solid gore effects in the generally graphic kills. That becomes most apparent in the final half with a lot to like here, as the full reveal of the creature in the church and its resulting rampage on the girls left there provides some chilling suspense scenes and some solid action-packed encounters in the various rooms of the church that offer up some solid chases and suspense in addition to even more fun gore. The other solid aspect to this one is the central creature as the design for the creature is quite impressive, focusing on the more upright werewolf-styled beast as the snarling mouth, frizzled fur and demonic appearance give this a lot to like as well. That is especially more so given the connection that gets unraveled throughout the film that ties in the mysterious disappearances, the odd behavior of the church officials, and the ensuing investigation rather nicely. The reveal of the creature's true nature might be obvious enough but there's still a lot to like about it as this brings about some nice suspense once it becomes clear to the potential victim that's the case, and with a fantastic transformation sequence thrown in as well for the old-school fans this has a lot to like about it that holds it up overall. There isn't much to dislike here as the few flaws aren't that detrimental. The main factor on display is the somewhat slow pace at the beginning of the film, featuring enough of a sluggish start that it's rather easy to lose interest at times. The films' focus on the lives of the girls at the house is at the forefront of things with only minor deviations to the officers' investigation which both combined takes centerstage for such a large portion of time that the brief attacks are simply just brief ambushes of the victim stumbling upon the werewolf and being dispatched moments later. As mentioned, the other flaw here is the somewhat obvious identity of the werewolf that isn't hidden too well at all, which just like the low-budget indie nature of the film is noticeable but not as distracting overall.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

Pretty good modern werewolf movie on a micro-budget

[radioactivesound · 6/10 · 14 February 2022]

I liked this micro / low budget movie as average to above that.

Those looking for some connection to the classic Amityville franchise may be disappointed as it's set in Amityville, NY and that is about the end of the connection.

Going on from there though, this movie is fun enough and moves along well enough.

Sure some parts are weaker and some things are maybe a bit unexplained or are convenient, but this is a low budget movie, not some blockbuster.

Interestingly Cody Nicole Cameron is probably the most well-known actress in the movie and for some reason they forgot her in both the opening and closing credits, I even went back and checked, may have forgotten somebody else too.

A werewolf is in a half-way house for women picking off a few of the girls each month, month after month apparently.

For some reason, the police are finally called that a couple more have "run away" this month.

A detective with some behavior problems is assigned to find them and the problems seem to mount as the werewolf becomes more out of control.

Pretty good werewolf effects and I read some complaints that the werewolf wasn't on the screen enough, but I've seen much more scant movies than this by far.

Gore effects aren't the greatest maybe, but not that horrible either and are passable enough.

You could do much worse for a quickie werewolf movie fix.

The director did two other Amityville titles with a setting of Amityville, NY as the connection. I've seen Amityville Uprising and it is definitely not as good.

Plum awful.

[ansell-72879 · 2/10 · 1 May 2022]

Watching this prompted me to recall a recent small domestic moment. We returned from shopping, and I tried one of the delicious looking plums we'd just bought. I was forced to spit it out. The plum, despite looking OK, was rotten to the core. Amityville Moon looks OK right up until you press play, and then, well, it's unfortunately rotten to the core.

How the producers got access to the Amityville name and implied membership to the franchise is beyond me. It certainly wasn't as a consequence of money being splashed around. This movie obviously had a budget just slightly less than what we paid for the plums.

The acting is atrocious, the scares laughable, the production values negligible and the direction directionless. The monster is someone in a hairy suit. The scenes of monster transformation are, in fairness, passable.

There is one scene, perhaps 2/3rds of the way in, when a young woman has her face ripped off. She had obviously been given a sachet of something red to hide in the palm of her hand. Her instructions? Put both hands up to your face and rub until the sachet bursts and continue rubbing the red goo into your face until the scene stops. It is just awful and not in 'good' awful way.

Speaking of goo, the current colloquial term for boxed wine casks among the young here in Australia is goo bag. I would recommend a goo bag to deal with on screen goo. It might eventually help block out the long shot of the monster running, or the stilted dialogue delivery, or the embarrassing pauses as characters recall lines, or the ... I'm certain that you get the idea.

In short, this is an incredibly bad film. I usually include the qualifier that those involved probably didn't set out to intentionally make a bad movie, but this is so conspicuously abominable that they must have known. Perhaps a quick dud for taxation purposes? I don't know. What I do know is that the film finishes with a young woman sobbing on the front steps and I wasn't far from sobbing myself over the time and money I'd wasted in buying and watching this mess.

Oh, the woman mentioned above does the sachet thing again at the end, but tears are intended this time. Her make up runs and for a fleeting moment she actually, and unintentionally, looked scary. She is the heroine of the piece!

If only

[mentiramivida6 · 1/10 · 16 February 2024]

Decently promising film sadly made into garbage due to the acting which clearly would be the director (casting departments) fault. I mean we're all these people extras who never had attended one class? To be fare this write/director seems to only do E for Effort films. If the people involved aren't students trying to learn then wow. To have money must be nice just to waste it like this.

Overall only what if you are a glutton for torture and have mental issues preventing you from not finding and watching worst than student quality films. The only decent actor was the priest (with the beard).....

Worst movie ever

[cassjosiah · 1/10 · 6 February 2022]

This was the worst movie of all time. 6 dollars wasted on this horribly written film. The scene with the 40 year old emo girl getting killed was the dumbest thing I have ever seen. There was so much blood for absolutely no reason.

wasnt bad at all

[gwpetroski · 8/10 · 16 May 2022]

I have watched many werewolf movies and this one wasnt bad at all,The acting was really ok and the girls played good parts -all of them. In fact the director filmed a pretty good movie. The werewolf was believable as was the storyline,Ms elexis is awesome as was the priest and sister ruth,I really enjoyed it and would watch it again,

The face scene

[mcgrath_dana · 7/10 · 29 October 2021]

This movie deserves a good rating for the gore scenes, lol. I loved the part where the woman's face gets ripped off, followed by the scene where the werewolf is eating a person's leg. The pace should have been quicker, but I really liked the werewolf scenes.