Films like Amityville: The Awakening.

Amityville: The Awakening (2017) reads as Heavy, kinetic, measured horror / supernatural, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Finders Keepers (2014) poster
1. Finders Keepers2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Don't Sleep (2017) poster
2. Don't Sleep2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Halloween Party (2020) poster
3. Halloween Party2020

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Temple (2017) poster
4. Temple2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Prodigy (2019) poster
5. The Prodigy2019

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Robert (2015) poster
6. Robert2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Between Worlds (2018) poster
7. Between Worlds2018

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Arthur: Malediction (2022) poster
8. Arthur: Malediction2022

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Veil (2016) poster
9. The Veil2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Siren (2010) poster
10. Siren2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Mirrors 2 (2010) poster
11. Mirrors 22010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

ASD - Alma sin dueño (Sin alma) (2010) poster
12. ASD - Alma sin dueño (Sin alma)2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Amityville: The Awakening’s neighbours — where are yours?

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