03-015 Amityville The Awakening

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Amityville The Awakening

When I started looking into the Amityville Horror saga, “Amityville Horror Wiki” is the first few pages I refer myself to. I started learning from there the basic idea of this special, funny and totally out of control “franchise”. I got a list of movies which are so-called “Theatrical Films Canon”, and how many of them show some continuities. Then I started collecting those movies and ready for my horror movie adventure.

“Amityville Horror Wiki” suggested 7 movies as the “Theatrical Films Canon”: 1979 The Amityville Horror, 1982 AmityvilleII: The Possession, the 2005 remake, 2018 The Amityville Murders, 1993 Amityville 3-D, 2017 Amityville The Awakening & 2019 TheAmityville Dawn. I went one step further to watch the 1989 Amityville 4 The Evil Escapes, as it follows the official “novel” series.

Today, I am going to talk about the last in “Theatrical Films Canon”, the 2017 Amityville The Awakening.

Movie poster of Amityville The Awakening

Only premiered in 2017, this movie is quite new, I think you may still have a chance to watch it if you haven’t. So, I put the word “Spoilers warning” below.  Don’t worry, I won’t spoil too much.

Warning: Spoilers ahead!

At the beginning of the movie, we saw a family moving into the infamous house in Amityville and, things started happening. The movie gives a time, 2014. It connects very well to the Amityville Horror saga timeline.

Hey, didn’t the house being blown up at the end of Amityville 3-D? Hold on, I will explain.

Amityville The Awakening does not connect itself to the beginning of other movies, like a prequel. It also does not connect itself to the end of other movies, like a sequel. It connects itself on top of other movies.

Amityville The Awakening happens in the “real world”. In the movie, the DeFeo killings are real. Lutz family is real. The Warrens should be real, but not mentioned. And the evil inside the house… well, you watch it. But the previous movies are only “movies” here.

It is more like the idea of Wes Craven's New Nightmare. In the movie, the elder daughter of the family met a guy called Terrance in her new school and Terrance brought out a DVD of the 1979 The Amityville Horror and suggested to watch it inside the very house.

This is how the movie works out

Now, you know how it works out. No explanation is needed for the blown up house, or the differences between the classic and the remake, or whether the house is really clean after Amityville 4. These are all movies. You find contradictions? Talk to their directors. Under the same concept, Valak from The Conjuring Universe should also be “a movie plot” only.

Rating of this movie is generally good. But to be honest, I don’t like this idea. It keeps my head aching for hours after watching.

Spoilers end.

This post will probably be the last on Amityville. So, let me summarize the timeline of the Amityville Horror saga.

• 2019 The Dawn
  
• 2018 The Amityville Murders
• 1979 The Amityville Horror
• 2016 The Conjuring 2
• 1982 Amityville II: The Possessions
• 1989 Amityville 4 The Evil Escapes (optional)
• 1983 Amityville 3-D
• 2017 Amityville: The Awakening

I am taking the theory of Amityville II: The Possession as a sequel and placing Amityville 3-D after Amityville 4 The Evil Escapes as the house blown up at the end of Amityville 3-D.

You can consider The Conjuring 2 is a cross-over between The Conjuring Universe and Amityville Horror saga. Just like Alien vs. Predator. Both creatures met together and they did things. Then they separated and continued to have their own stories. The Warrens went to Amityville, did something, and left, together with Valak. If you want to learn more on the Amityville story, watch those movies. Or if you are happy, you can just leave it like this. You won’t find the Warrens in those Amityville movies anyway.

 

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