A couple of gang members find a stash of possessed weed in the old Amityville Horror house. Dollar signs in their eyes, they sell it on the street, and their customers soon become kill-happy possessed zombies. Now, this certainly sounds like a can’t-miss scenario. Somehow, writer/director Dustin (Zombi VIII: Urban Decay) Ferguson manages to screw up a potentially great idea (Okay… “great” for a fake Amityville movie) in record time.
The set-up is silly, but fun, which is really all you can hope for from a fake Amityville movie. Although some of it feels a little rushed, there’s no denying the potential of a plot about weed that’s been laced with Amityville evil and turns its users into zombies. The problem is that once the boring detective character is introduced, everything stops on a dime(bag). By the time he starts interviewing suspects and witnesses and they start relating flashback after flashback, it just sucks all the fun right out of the picture. It takes seemingly forever for the film to get back on track with the killer weed plotline, and once it finally does, it craps the bed in spectacular fashion. To make matters even worse, the editing during the final confrontation is nearly incomprehensible.
I didn’t realize it when I put this on, but Amityville in the Hood is actually a sequel to Amityville Toybox and Amityville Clownhouse. If I had known that beforehand, I would’ve watched them in order. Scenes from both those films are recycled and reused as flashbacks to fill out the second act, and one clip even includes a cameo by A Nightmare on Elm Street 2’s Mark Patton. If you ask me, the flick needed less scenes from other movies and more of the Amityville ghost ganja shit.
Despite the plethora of missed opportunities, I still say that any movie that features a homage to the awesome Amityville 3-D poster in the pre-title sequence can’t be all bad.
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