I really wish that they could find a different way to do these movies. It boils down to 2 things. First, no happy endings, and by that I'm not referring to that little extra something you get at a massage parlor. Second, by the end of the film, 85 to 90% of the cast is dead. The most important thing to change is the camera operator. It's hard to feel bad about the camera guy's death when the character is shown to be an annoying little sh!t who just won't stop filming. Two examples are Hud in Cloverfield(who can't shut up for even a second), and the 13 or 14 year old son in The Amityville Haunting. At the end, when the autopsy report reveals he died from massive trauma and losing every single drop of blood in his body, I cheered on the demon/ghost/whatever the hell it was.
For those who haven't seen it, Amityville Haunting is more like Paranormal Activity but with some minor references to Amityville Horror, to make it seem like it's not a rip-off. And for those who have seen the Amityville films and noticed that the house only slightly resembles the actual house, Amityville Haunting doesn't even attempt to find a similar house.
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