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‘Amityville Uprising’ Wraps Up an Unofficial Trilogy with an Amityville Zombie Movie [The Amityville IP]

January 23, 2024 Joe Lipsett Amityville, Editorials, Michael Cervantes, Mike Ferguson, Scott C. Roe, Tank Jones, The Amityville IP, Thomas J. Churchill

Twice a month Joe Lipsett will dissect a new Amityville Horror film to explore how the “franchise” has evolved in increasingly ludicrous directions. This is “The Amityville IP.” With Amityville Uprising, Thomas J. Churchill joins illustrious company as the only director of three Amityville films (the other is Dustin Ferguson, who we’ll return to in […]

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‘Amityville Scarecrow’ Takes a Trip into the Amityville Cornfield [The Amityville IP]

January 11, 2024 Joe Lipsett Amanda-Jade Tyler, Amityville, Andrew Rolfe, Chelsea Greenwood, Editorials, Kate Sandison, Movies, Peter Jack Mundy, Shannon Holiday, Sofia Lacey, The Amityville IP

Twice a month Joe Lipsett will dissect a new Amityville Horror film to explore how the “franchise” has evolved in increasingly ludicrous directions. This is “The Amityville IP.” Welcome back to a new year of The Amityville IP. With Amityville Scarecrow, this editorial series leaves behind the scant four “franchise” titles released in 2021 for […]

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‘Amityville Vampire’ Finally Explores An Anthology Format [The Amityville IP]

December 19, 2023 Joe Lipsett Amityville, Anthony DeArce, Carlos Perez, Editorials, Haillye Young Miller, Ismaele Montone, J Randall, Jin N Tonic, Joseph Acain, Kat Rodriguez, Laura Meadows, Maggie Nolting, Miranda Melhado, Randy Oppenheimer, The Amityville IP, Tim Vigil, Veronica Farren

Twice a month Joe Lipsett will dissect a new Amityville Horror film to explore how the “franchise” has evolved in increasingly ludicrous directions. This is “The Amityville IP.” For the first time in thirty texts, an Amityville film has adopted an anthology format. Amityville Vampire (2021), written by Carlos Perez and Tim Vigil (who also […]

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‘Amityville Cult’ Delivers a Familiar, Drawn Out Story [The Amityville IP]

December 6, 2023 Joe Lipsett Amityville, Chance Gibbs, Editorials, Eric Oberto, Lara Williams, Micha Marie Stevens, Movies, Patrick McAlister, The Amityville IP, tom young, Trey Murphy

Twice a month Joe Lipsett will dissect a new Amityville Horror film to explore how the “franchise” has evolved in increasingly ludicrous directions. This is “The Amityville IP.” Amityville Cult begins with a solid hook: a young man is stabbed to death on a beach by a robed figure. Following a time/location jump, writer/director Trey […]

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‘The Amityville Moon’ Is a Better Werewolf Film Than Amityville Film [The Amityville IP]

November 22, 2023 Joe Lipsett Alex Reinhart, Angie Duke, Editorials, Katarina Leigh Waters, Michael Cervantes, Movies, The Amityville IP, Thomas J. Churchill, Trey McCurley, tuesday knight

Twice a month Joe Lipsett will dissect a new Amityville Horror film to explore how the “franchise” has evolved in increasingly ludicrous directions. This is “The Amityville IP.” Two entries ago, we discussed Thomas J. Churchill’s vampire-themed, title card only “franchise” entry, The Amityville Harvest. I knew that the writer/director had a sequel film, so […]

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‘An Amityville Poltergeist’ – The One That Shamelessly Rips Off J-Horror [The Amityville IP]

November 7, 2023 Joe Lipsett Airisa Durand, Amityville, Calvin Morie McCarthy, Connor Austin, Editorials, Jon Ashley Hall, Movies, Parris Bates, Rebecca Kimble, Sydney Winbush, The Amityville IP

Twice a month Joe Lipsett will dissect a new Amityville Horror film to explore how the “franchise” has evolved in increasingly ludicrous directions. This is “The Amityville IP.” Straight off the top, audiences going into An Amityville Poltergeist (2020) hoping to see objects flying around the famed Long Island house need to adjust their expectations. […]

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Overstuffed ‘The Amityville Harvest’ Is Four Movies In One [The Amityville IP]

October 25, 2023 Joe Lipsett Brandon Alan Smith, Editorials, Eileen Dietz, Eva Ceja, Julie Anne Prescott, Keavy Bradley, Kyle Lowder, Michael Cervantes, Nick Waters, Patrick Mulderrig, Paul Logan, Sadie Katz, The Amityville IP

Twice a month Joe Lipsett will dissect a new Amityville Horror film to explore how the “franchise” has evolved in increasingly ludicrous directions. This is “The Amityville IP.” The single biggest recurring question that has arisen over the course of this editorial series is “what constitutes an Amityville film?” It’s the basic impetus to go […]

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‘Amityville Witches’ Brings Soap Opera Melodrama to the “Franchise” [The Amityville IP]

October 10, 2023 Joe Lipsett Amanda-Jade Tyler, Amityville, Brittan Taylor, Donna Spangler, Editorials, Kira Reed Lorsch, Rebecca Matthews, Sarah T. Cohen, The Amityville IP, Toby Wynn-Davies, Tom Joliffe

Twice a month Joe Lipsett will dissect a new Amityville Horror film to explore how the “franchise” has evolved in increasingly ludicrous directions. This is “The Amityville IP.” For the 25th entry of this editorial series (!), we’re looking at the lone Amityville directed solo by a woman: Rebecca Matthews’ Witches of Amityville Academy (2020). […]

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Troma’s ‘Amityville Vibrator’ Is Silly, Self-Aware Fun [The Amityville IP]

September 26, 2023 Joe Lipsett Amityville, Editorials, Nathan Rumler, The Amityville IP, Troma

Twice a month Joe Lipsett will dissect a new Amityville Horror film to explore how the “franchise” has evolved in increasingly ludicrous directions. This is “The Amityville IP.” The opening of Troma’s Amityville Vibrator tells you everything you need to know about the tone of the film: a title card reads June 6, 1976, 6:66am. […]

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‘Amityville Island’ Entertains with a Silly Women-in-Prison Grindhouse Film [The Amityville IP]

September 12, 2023 Joe Lipsett Amityville, Amityville Horror, Danielle Donahue, Editorials, Jamie Morgan, Mark Polonia, The Amityville IP

Twice a month Joe Lipsett will dissect a new Amityville Horror film to explore how the “franchise” has evolved in increasingly ludicrous directions. This is “The Amityville IP.” It’s time to revisit the Amityville “franchise’s” most prolific director, Mark Polonia. Thus far we’ve experienced his work on Amityville Death House (famed for its bizarre Spider […]

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‘The Amityville Murders’ – A Ghoulish and Exploitative Look at the DeFeo Murders [The Amityville IP]

August 29, 2023 Joe Lipsett Carlo Rinaldi, Chelsea Ricketts, Daniel Farrands, Diane Franklin, Editorials, John Robinson, Paul Ben-Victor, Rebekah Graf, The Amityville Horror, The Amityville IP

Twice a month Joe Lipsett will dissect a new Amityville Horror film to explore how the “franchise” has evolved in increasingly ludicrous directions. This is “The Amityville IP.” There’s something frustrating about a film that begins with a lot of potential, and then thoroughly squanders it. Writer/director Daniel Farrands’ The Amityville Murders is one such […]

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‘Amityville: Mt. Misery Road’ Is a Short Film Barely Stretched to Feature Length [The Amityville IP]

August 15, 2023 Joe Lipsett Amityville Horror, Chuck Morrongiello, Editorials, Karolina Morrongiello, The Amityville IP

Twice a month Joe Lipsett will dissect a new Amityville Horror film to explore how the “franchise” has evolved in increasingly ludicrous directions. This is “The Amityville IP.” There have been some bad Amityville films since we ventured off the path into open IP territory. A lot of filmmakers have used the name recognition of […]

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‘Amityville Exorcism’ Is the One That Shamelessly Rips Off ‘The Exorcist’ [The Amityville IP]

July 18, 2023 Joe Lipsett Amityville Horror, Billy D'Amato, Editorials, Mark Polonia, The Amityville IP

Twice a month Joe Lipsett will dissect a new Amityville Horror film to explore how the “franchise” has evolved in increasingly ludicrous directions. This is “The Amityville IP.” After an “in name only” outing with Amityville Prison (aka Against The Night), there’s something reassuring about Amityville Exorcism, which delivers exactly what the title suggests. This […]

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‘Amityville Clownhouse’ Needs More Bozo Action [The Amityville IP]

June 20, 2023 Joe Lipsett Dustin Ferguson, Editorials, Julia Farrell, Mark Patton, Movies, The Amityville IP

Twice a month Joe Lipsett will dissect a new Amityville Horror film to explore how the “franchise” has evolved in increasingly ludicrous directions. This is “The Amityville IP.” It was with a mix of trepidation and intrigue that I hit play on Dustin Ferguson’s Amityville Clownhouse (2020). The film, first released in 2017 under the […]

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‘Amityville: No Escape’ – This Found Footage Installment Is Only Half Successful [The Amityville IP]

June 6, 2023 Joe Lipsett Alia Gabrielle Eckhardt, Allison Egan, Amityville, Amityville Horror, Editorials, Henrique Couto, Ira Gansler, Josh Miller, Julia Gomez, Katrina Gansler, Michael William Ralston, Movies, The Amityville IP

Twice a month Joe Lipsett will dissect a new Amityville Horror film to explore how the “franchise” has evolved in increasingly ludicrous directions. This is “The Amityville IP.” The found footage entries in the Amityville series have been hit and miss. The Amityville Haunting featured a few innovative uses of the format, but the minuscule […]

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