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Amityville: The Awakening
2017
PG-13Runtime
87 minutes
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Belle, her little sister, and her comatose twin brother move into a new house with their single mother Joan in order to save money to help pay for her brother's expensive healthcare. But when strange phenomena begin to occur in the house including the miraculous recovery of her brother, Belle begins to suspect her Mother isn't telling her everything and soon realizes they just moved into the infamous Amityville house.
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2.8/10
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LGBTQ+ Representation
The film features no LGBTQ+ characters or narratives. It focuses strictly on a traditional familial structure without exploring non-heteronormative identities.
Gender Representation
A matriarchal household replaces traditional patriarchal hierarchies, placing leadership with a single mother. While the protagonist shows agency, female characters remain largely defined by domestic caretaking roles.
Racial & Ethnic Diversity
The central family is a homogeneous white unit. The 1968 setting reinforces a traditional Western domestic aesthetic with no racial or ethnic complexity.
Religious & Cultural Diversity
The story explores familial dysfunction and economic struggles related to healthcare costs. However, it lacks critiques of religion or Western institutions, focusing instead on individual psychological trauma.
Disability Representation
A comatose sibling serves as a central plot catalyst. This introduces medical vulnerability, though the character functions more as a narrative device than a nuanced portrayal of disability.
Strengths
- The matriarchal focus disrupts traditional patriarchal hierarchies by centering leadership on a single mother.
- The protagonist demonstrates significant agency while navigating supernatural threats.
- The narrative touches on material struggles, such as the economic necessity of healthcare costs.
Areas for Improvement
- The film lacks any representation of LGBTQ+ identities or non-heteronormative narratives.
- The cast is a homogeneous white unit, offering no racial or ethnic complexity.
- The depiction of disability is used primarily as a plot device rather than a nuanced exploration of agency.
AI Analysis
Amityville: The Awakening is a conventional horror film that prioritizes atmospheric tension over intersectional depth. It operates within a narrow narrative scope, focusing on a nuclear family unit navigating grief and medical crisis. The film offers a slight subversion of gender norms by centering on a matriarchal household led by a single mother. However, this is offset by a lack of racial, LGBTQ+, and cultural diversity, as the cast remains a homogeneous white unit. While the inclusion of a comatose character introduces themes of medical vulnerability, the character lacks independent agency. Ultimately, the film adheres to traditional genre tropes rather than exploring broader social or identity-based complexities.
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