With the first weekend of 2014 now officially out of the way, Dimension Films have not wasted any time planting a flag in the first weekend of next year. The horror movie that they have chosen to kick off the 2015 movie season will be a reboot of The Amityville Horror series entitled simply Amityville. Although it may seem like this announcement came out of nowhere, they have had a new Amityville movie in development for years now under the title The Amityville Horror: The Lost Tapes. As you can probably guess, it was going to be a found footage film but it completely fell off the map, leaving many to assume it had been cancelled. Now it has been resurrected under a different title with the same writer/director team still attached. The plot synopsis is as follows:
“An ambitious female television news intern, on the verge of breaking the most famous haunted house case in the world, leads a team of journalists, clergymen and paranormal researchers into an investigation of the bizarre events that will come to be known as The Amityville Horror… only to unwittingly open a door to the unreal that she may never be able to close.”
Amityville will be written and directed by Casey La Scala and Daniel Farrands with Jason Blum on board as producer. La Scala doesn’t have a ton of credits to his name aside from the skateboarding comedy Grind and an upcoming horror thriller called The Remaining, but Farrands wrote the screenplay for Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers and directed a handful of horror-related documentaries including Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy and Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th.
It remains to be seen if Dimension will actually follow through with the project this time around. They had previously scheduled the movie for January 3rd, 2014 but then simply sat on it for a year. What do you think, is The Amityville Horror due for another reboot? Can the found footage format bring something new to the franchise?
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