EDITOR’S NOTE: The I Hope You Suffer podcast said that “Since everybody is doing these movie challenges now, we made the only one worth doing.” Bring the pain.

Look, you had me at directed and written by Mark Polonia, never mind the fact that this is a Western set in Amityville when it was still being settled. This gets the first part of the Amityville equation right: It has a great title. It’s missing the second, which is having a tagline that gets you to watch it. “For God’s sake, get out! from the first movie?” Perfect. The third one has “Inside these walls, nothing is impossible … except survival.” And what does this give us? Nada.

That said, if all it had was the ending, where a puppet bat hovers in front of an explosion, as well as a scene where a severed head speaks with the voice of a demon and the time that a giant pentagram appears, it would automatically be better than 100% of the other Amityville movies I watch. The town looks like it belongs in the West, the costumes are good and the demonic noises sound like Sammi Curr being played backward.

The idea that this gets to Amityville before the house was even built is a decent one as well. Sure, there are too many scenes of people just talking, but at no point did I hate myself for watching this, which is so much more than I can say for most movies that start with Amityville and to me, that’s a win.