The recent news of The Amityville Horrorfranchise being rebooted via Amazon and MGM Studios has had a somewhat mixed reaction. The announcement of director David F. Sandberg (Shazam!, Lights Out, Annabelle: Creation), along with the writing team of Ian Goldberg and Richard Naing (The Conjuring: Last Rites), leading the project certainly seems like ideal picks to help reinvent the franchise. However, at the same time, original horror movies are thriving, and the idea of trying to relaunch a franchise that has floundered before does not necessarily have fans clamoring — ask the studio behind the failed attempt to relaunch the Witchboard franchise.

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