The Amityville Podcast

The one they didn't want you to see! Even though, as it turns out, it's much more watchable than some of the ones to follow. We get in some bickering around random things as well. Oscar winners! Robot leg! Enjoy!

We reach 1990, when horror was hitting a rough patch. We cover the time just before this one, when franchises were being run into the ground and box office was dropping off hard, through to the next few years when award and prestige returned to the genre. We'll also talk about this entry, the first without Tobe Hooper.

Our second film series is reenforcing the idea that the second entry in a horror series should just go all out, humor, big ideas, broader scope. We also discuss the twelve years of horror between the first one and this, how much the landscape had changed.

While we wait a few months for more Amityville movies, We're headed to Texas. This franchise stays put! No cursed items, no travel or possessions, just Texas! And Oklahoma for a bit, but not this week. 

The End! For now! The very last one released!

"they went there." While that covers so much of this franchise, the two 'there' concepts that come up in budget horror are space and the hood. And weirdly, space is usually first. We honestly don't break down too much of why, because there are way too many reasons better articulated by others. Instead, us two white dudes watch a movie made by at least some white dudes. 

Yes, there have been police officers in previous movies. But not like this! Other movies have had cops like this, though, which we discuss in the preshow. After some computer trouble, we're back for our end run of currently available Amityville movies!

Yep, it's a werewolf movie. We haven't gone to space yet, though we know it's coming. Join us in the ring as we take on the lycanthrope-a-dope, and somehow distract ourselves with musical theater. Weirdly we get from werewolves to musicals in several ways, some of them predictable.

There's nothing scarier than a scarecrow, unless you aren't a crow. Then results may vary. Can we spin straw into gold? Is this outstanding in its field? 

This week we dive into the band that gave us such classics as Possessed Fire Woman and She Sells Sanctuary on Ocean Ave. Not to be confused with The Amityville Church, The Amityville Cure, or Amityville Clash, purely because of name like the whole Pullman / Paxton issue. Or this is another movie. Beforehand we discuss other films with cults featured prominently.