15 greatest Amityville Horror movies of all-time
By Devin Shea
14. The Amityville Asylum (2013)
Most of the films in the Amityville Horror franchise work around the famous house. It’s the house that ties all of these films together, but The Amityville Asylum tries to do something a little different with its story, however loosely tied to the original story that it may be. This film is based in Amityville on Long Island (why did I never know it was on Long Island??) in a mental institution. Movies based in mental institutions never go well.
The story follows Lisa, a young woman who takes a job as the High Hopes Hospital and she is excited at first, despite the unfriendly staff that she works alongside. At night, strange things begin to occur, which causes her to seek out the answer to what is happening in this hospital and it has its own ties to the family that lived on Ocean Avenue and the family that lived and died there. It stars Sophia del Pizzo, Lee Bane and Jared Morgan.
Horror movies in hospitals (or just hospitals alone) are unsettling on its own without adding the concept of the supernatural and hearing the whispers and ramblings of the severely mentally unwell. Add in murder and evil entities and that there is a recipe for a bad time. You have to give them credit for picking a venue that was never used before, given how many Amityville Horror films there are.