Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

BallWubba Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Realrockerhalloween The evil escapes, the restored house, inside of an ugly lamp bought at a yard sale by a woman for her recently widowed daughter.Shifting our focus to California, Nancy and her three kids move in only to experience the same paranormal activity that befall those in Long Island.How the original house is still left standing after three falls back on my theory that it was meant to be the last and these are the events that took place before. Also I find it a little hard to believe the Lutz's left everything they owned behind.The mythology will follow this route of using appliances until the very end and even reminds me of the same style used for Stephen King's Trucks of everyday tools turning against their owners.While an evil lamp sounds silly, it actually was creepy taking on an inhumane form and adding to The atmosphere. Willing its power over the helpless inhabitants inside the home and even striking at opportune events to cause echoes. Like the poor handyman who has his arm chewed to bits in the garbage exposil and the eldest son trashing The basement in a fit of rage.Party Duke was delightful, fabulous and blew the rest of the caste away by her star presence.Not a bad television production and even became one of my favorites sequels.

homecoming8 This fourth one has a lot in common with the third one. Again, it seems like it's just another Made-For-TV movie: the acting is average, the story isn't scary or suspenseful and the effects are extremely cheap. No real horror here (well, it's called Amityville HORROR: The Evil Escapes !) and it looks more like a PG-13 movie than what it's rated for (15 years and older).The real problem is that the story is rather stupid: a god awful lamp from the original house has the demon inside it. In a few scenes, the demon is showed inside the lamp but they were better off leaving that on the cutting floor. The story is actually based on the novel with the same title. That novel was again used for the 6th one. And that movie (It's About Time) is much better than this which is actually one of the worst Amityville sequels.

Backlash007 ~Spoiler~ Amityville IV: The Evil Escapes is the point where the sequels get downright ridiculous. If you've seen the horrendous Amityville 3-D, that statement should not come as a shock. Original Amityville scribe, Sandor Stern, has his crack at the series in this TV movie which he wrote and directed. So the blame lies with him, entirely. In this entry a group of priests attempt an exorcism at 112 Ocean Avenue. Things do not quite go as planned as the evil in the house escapes into a lamp that was designed by a retard. It is then bought at a yard sale and the evil inhabits another house from there. That's right, the antagonist is a haunted floor lamp! Wrap your head around that. So the iconic house is taken out of the picture so to speak. Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't the Amityville movies revolve around the creepiness of that house? It was a mistake to replace the house with a lamp, but then again how many movies can you make about different people moving into the same haunted house? Don't answer that. And don't bother with this movie.

MarieGabrielle The "Amityville Horror" series continues. Actually for anyone who is a fan of that series, this film is much better than the 2005 remake which is so derivative as it seems to owe royalties to the original director.This time Patty Duke and family move out west; her mom is Jane Wyatt (always a nice TV presence).While the story is a bit contrived, this time Wyatt's sister on Long Island has sent her a hideous lamp, which seems to be the key to the evil and insanity brought into the house. Sound silly? Well, it's better than the "ketcham and kill 'em" reference in the latest tired Amityville saga. In the new film the name Ketcham is invoked to imply a witch/warlock who lived in the Amityville L.I., NY original house. If you drive on Ketcham Street today you will see nothing except quaint souvenir shops and coffee shops; there was never a mystery, just a cottage industry.