10 Upcoming Sequels And Reboots That Will Destroy Your Faith In Cinema

Because Amityville is an actual place, the name can’t be copyrighted by filmmakers and is therefore free to use, hence the existence of Amityville Dollhouse, Amityville Death House, Amityville Playhouse and – why not? – The Amityville Asylum.

Due in April 2016, Amityville: The Reawakening (which was previously called The Awakening and supposed to open in 2015 - no, that's not a good sign) is the latest theatrical reboot of the series, which means it’s a remake of Andrew Douglas’s 2005 movie, which was a remake of Stuart Rosenberg’s 1979 movie, which was based on a book by Jay Anson, which was “based on actual events.” Exhausted? It’s yet another ghost franchise from producer Jason Blum, who also gave us the Paranormal Activity, Sinister and Insidious movies, so you know exactly what to expect.

The director is Franck Khalfoun, who also remade Maniac from a script by Alexandre Aja and Gregory Levasseur – the writers of the remakes of Mirrors and The Hills Have Eyes. They also wrote P2, Franck’s first feature, which starred Rachel Nichols, who was in the 2005 Amityville Horror. One day, someone will create a game called Six Degrees Of Sequelisation.