The Amityville Asylum
The Amityville Asylum | |
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Directed by | Andrew Jones |
Written by | Andrew Jones |
Produced by | Andrew Jones |
Starring | Sophia Del Pizzo Lee Bane Jared Morgan Eileen Daly |
Cinematography | Victoria Rodway |
Edited by | Tom Perou |
Music by | J. Andrew Jones |
Production companies | Independent Moving Pictures North Bank Entertainment Amityville Asylum Films |
Distributed by | 4Digital Media |
Release date |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | $20,000[1] |
The Amityville Asylum (also known as The Nesting 2: Amityville Asylum) is a 2013 British
Plot
In 1974, a cloaked figure gives
Palmer escapes from his cell one night and kills Pemberton before cannibalizing Kimble. He is subsequently tortured with electroshock equipment by Pemberton's fellow orderlies, and when Lisa witnesses this, she is browbeaten into silence by Hardcastle. Lisa researches the history of Amityville and discovers that, back in the 18th century, the Satchem, a Native American cult, settled in the area after being run out of Salem by Christians. The Satchem believed that making annual sacrifices of six people would result in them being gifted with immortality by a God called the Dark Master. The Satchem were eventually wiped out by a witch hunter named John Underhill and buried in a mass grave on the site of what would later become 112 Ocean Avenue. Krenwinkel is a member of a modern-day cult that has adopted the beliefs of the Satchem.
Lisa learns that Doctor Elliot Mixter, the owner of High Hopes, testified at Krenwinkel's trial; when she brings Mixter evidence that Krenwinkel has somehow acquired occult paraphernalia and access to the internet, he is revealed to be in league with Krenwinkel, and has Lisa unlawfully committed to Ward X. Lisa is broken out of her cell by Delaney while Mixter arms Patient X with a shotgun and sends him on a rampage through High Hopes. Patient X murders Krenwinkel, Palmer, and Hardcastle before going after Lisa and Delaney, who encounter possessed patients (one of whom rips his own face off) and Allison's ghost while trying to flee High Hopes. After Patient X kills Delaney, he is killed by Lisa. Lisa confronts Mixter, who taunts her into attacking him, which results in Lisa being gunned down by the NYPD. The massacre at High Hopes is blamed on Lisa.
A year later, Mixter gives a television interview, during which he cheekily implies that he is now immortal while promoting his book, High Hopes, Broken Dreams.
Cast
- Sophia Del Pizzo as Lisa Templeton
- Lee Bane as Delaney
- Jared Morgan as Doctor Elliot Mixter
- Eileen Daly as Sadie Krenwinkel
- Paul Kelleher as Hardcastle
- Kenton Hall as Pemberton
- Sarah Louise Madison as Allison DeFeo
- Alan Humphreys as Jerry Kimble
- Matthew Batte as Dennis Palmer
- Ina Marie Smith as Nancy Dennison
- Judith Haley as Mrs. Hardesty
- John Andrews as Patient X
Release
The film had a limited theatrical run, and was released on DVD and video on demand, by 4Digital Media in the United Kingdom in 2013.[5] The following year the film was released on DVD and video on demand in North America by Hannover House.[6]
Reception
John Marrone of Bloody Disgusting found The Amityville Asylum to be mediocre at best, offering mild praise to its performances while noting that its violence was anemic and its story was weak, and that all in all it felt like it was "pasted together on the fly with novice experimentation."[7] Horror News was similarly critical of the film, giving it a score of 1/5 while calling it an "under-cooked mess" with "a boring first and second act with a third act that promises far more than it delivers."[8] While Ed Blackadder of INFLUX Magazine was critical of the film's direction and writing and gave it a D grade, he conceded that it was still "somewhat watchable" and "better than most of the micro-budget schlock I sit through."[1] Tex Hula ranked The Amityville Asylum as the fifth best of the twenty-one Amityville films that he reviewed for Ain't It Cool News, and concluded his coverage of it by writing, "Yeah, I kind of liked this one. It was a surprise. It has more effort and ambition than most of the sequels. It has a ballsy ending that I really liked."[9]
References
- ^ a b Blackadder, Ed (21 August 2013). "The Amityville Asylum (Review)". influxmagazine.com. INFLUX Magazine. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
- ISBN 9781440839689. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
- ISBN 9781913543839. Archived from the originalon 9 July 2021. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
- ^ Miska, Brad (19 March 2013). "Enter the The Amityville Asylum Trailer, Loosely Based On 1974 Story..." bloody-disgusting.com. Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
- ^ Barton, Steve (2013). "Exclusive Teaser Trailer: The Amityville Asylum; First Distro News". dreadcentral.com. Dread Central. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
- ^ Barton, Steve (2013). "The Amityville Asylum To Open Stateside". dreadcentral.com. Dread Central. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
- ^ Marrone, John (15 January 2014). "[BD Review] The Amityville Asylum – Kill Them All". bloody-disgusting.com. Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
- ^ Rotten, Doc (13 October 2013). "Film Review - The Amityville Asylum (2013)". horrornews.net. Horror News. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
- ^ Hula, Tex (4 February 2019). "AICN's Tex Hula Reviews The Amityville Murders and ALL other Amityville Films! A Look into Madness!". aintitcool.com. Ain't It Cool News. Retrieved 3 March 2021.