The Amityville Haunting
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, kinetic, measured horror / supernatural, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →This movie is a 'found-footage' film about the Benson family who move in to the infamous house where the DeFeo family were murdered in the 1970s over 30 years earlier. Things start happening to anyone who visits this house, and whoever lives there. This is the footage retrieved from the camera.
Our read · The Amityville Haunting (2011) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded horror · supernatural entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of The Amityville Haunting
What watching it is actually like.
“You want low-budget found-footage horror in the Amityville house.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if shaky cam and cheap horror effects annoy rather than scare.
The reading.
Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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