Amityville: The Awakening Pushed Back To 2016

Horror hit-makers Blumhouse Productions have at last announced the rescheduled release date of the delayed ‘Amityville: The Awakening.’

The latest installment in the long-running haunted house horror series (and the first to be produced by the ‘Paranormal Activity’ and ‘Insidious’ producers) was originally set to hit screens this past January, before being unexpectedly pulled from distributor Dimension Films’ release schedule in September 2014.

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Now, it has been announced on the Blumhouse Twitter account that ‘Amityville: the Awakening’ will finally arrive on 15 April 2016.

Blumhouse also emphasise that the film is indeed still subtitled ‘the Awakening,’ and not ‘The Reawakening’ as some reports had claimed the film had been renamed.

Hand in hand with this, Blumhouse also revealed the release date of another upcoming horror movie, ‘Viral,’ which will open on 19 February 2016.

Headed by producer Jason Blum, Blumhouse has become the biggest name in mainstream horror in recent years, managing to be hugely prolific and profitable thanks at least in part to their policy of keeping films budgeted under $5 million.

As well as the ‘Paranormal Activity’ and ‘Insidious’ films, Blumhouse have produced such horror hits as ‘The Purge’ films, ‘Sinister’ and its upcoming sequel, ‘Oculus,’ ‘Ouija,’ the recent ‘Unfriended’ and the upcoming ‘Area 51.’

Beyond horror, Blumhouse also produced the recent, highly acclaimed Oscar winner ‘Whiplash,’ and the not-so highly anticipated ‘Jem and the Holograms.’

Not too much has been revealed about why ‘Amityville: the Awakening’ has been delayed. With ‘Maniac’ remake director Franck Khalfoun calling the shots, and a cast including Bella Thorne, Jennifer Jason and Leigh and Kurtwood Smith, there are certainly grounds to hope for something above average.

Reshoots, said to include a new ending, have reportedly taken place since the initial delay - and back in February, Blum told Arrow in the Head they were “just tinkering with it and trying to make it better.”

Here’s the official synopsis:

“Belle, her little sister, and her comatose twin brother move into a new house with their single mother Joan in order to save money to help pay for her brother’s expensive healthcare. But when strange phenomena begin to occur in the house including the miraculous recovery of her brother, Belle begins to suspect her Mother isn’t telling her everything and soon realizes they just moved into the infamous Amityville house.”

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Picture Credit: Dimension Films