Week 5 (July 19 – 25) – Sub Rosa Studio
Ron Bonk’s SRS Cinema has been providing the underground with TOP QUALITY GRIME since the 90s. Not only does he release a deluge of Sharksploitation, Amityville ripoffs, and Cocaine-addicted critter flicks, he also distributes auteurist masterpieces like Tim Ritter’s Truth or Dare? – A Critical Madness, Hugh Gallagher’s Gore Trilogy and the Polonia Brothers’ Hallucinations, plus he’s moved into the world of Japanese kaiju cinema with Howl From Beyond the Fog and The Whale God.
There are ten stories in this Amityville offering. Here they are, along with who directed each segment:
Blaize Tudor – Amityville Clownopalooza
Chad Nelson Knauer – Skeleton Cop Goes to Amityville
Evan Jacobs – Amityville Death Toilet: Reprise
Curtis Everitt – Amityville Mime
Chad Michael Campbell – Scamityville
JT Kris – Amityville Killer
Josh Spiegel – A-Mall-Tyville
Andy Wolf – Amityville Next Door
Douglas Waltz – Amityville Lawn Flamingo
Ron Ford – Amityville Murder Hammer
When you think you’ve seen every possible iteration of the Lutz house haunting, leave it to Ron Bonk and the scrappy, visionary collective at SRS Cinema to blow the doors off the foundation. Amityverse isn’t just a film; it’s a sprawling, multi-hyphenate love letter to the DIY spirit, taking the foundational myth of the Long Island horror story and allowing its creators to tell their own stories.
I’m glad Skeleton Cop is back as well as the Amityville Death Toilet and they are probably the best parts of this, as well as Amityville Mime. What this really gets correct is that 10 minutes or less is the right time for an Amityville pun to play out instead of a long and deadly movie. There are two more of these coming and, as you may imagine, I will totally be watching them. I mean, there’s even a haunted spoon.
You can watch this on Tubi.
