A group of people go to
the old mansion in Amityville that is
reputed to be haunted and to refurbish it
as an investment but yet they expreience
the walls shaking, doors slamming shut
and encountering ghouls as well as deadly
looking tarantula's creeping around.
A gifted psychic named Debbie (Dawna
Wightman) seems to feel the terror in
each room and is tormented in her
nightmares about it then tries to warn
everyone about the house being evil as a
priest named Father Parcaeus (Jan Rubes)
was once murdered there and his spirit
may be warning all of them.
Also one of them named Frank (Kim Coates)
begins to act strange and depressed
leading to suicides and then starts to
get possessed ready to go on a murderous
rampage due to something in the cellar of
the house.
This is without a
doubt the worst one out of the Amityville
series plus the house looks completely
different alltogether. I found this one a
tough one to believe it's the house the
Lutz family lived in as it was a little
too comedic and seemed like a spoof on
the films.
The story was very weak and not the least
bit scary at all. The film is saved from
bombing due to the near ending which
looked very possessive and tense but
that's it folks.
A film very forgettable and offensive to
the fans of the Amityville
series.
The acting is very
average and some of it is below average
too. Lead actor Kim Coates really
drew attention to the audience with his
flirtatious attitude and then knowing how
to get strongly emotional and well as
going in an evil and screaming rage too.
Dawna Wightman shows a good tense
behavior but however she sometimes overly
does it when she freaks out or gets
scared and it's not at all believeable.
Helen Hughes as the eccentric
elderly lady who has knowledge about the
house was way too much and was too
comedic. I wasn't at all convinced on her
acting skills at all but she came across
as funny sometimes.
David Stein seemed to bring his
chraming attitude on quite well by being
the host of the whole group and was
overly impressed by him. I'd have to say
he was the best out of the whole cast.
Cassandra Gava showed a nice bubbly
type of attitude to her part in the film
showing nice characteristics to her part
in it.
A side of a
person's face and hand are brutally
mangled.
Tom Berry is
very rough with his direction in the
film. He shows good shots on the house
along with everyone getting together and
discussing the house about exploring it
making it look like the rest of the
Amityville flicks.
We spot pointless dialogues with everyone
near a fireplace opening up their fortune
cookies after their dinner which looked
very bland.
We spot a good shot on Dawna Wightman
walking on a floor and crashing down
on the floor.
There's a shot on Kim Coates
about to make his way downstairs in a
cellar with the railing breaking but it
looked very phony.
There's shots on Dean Anthony Rubes
in a cellar looking at some pipes moving
which the setting was supposed to look
creepy but doesn't do the trick.
There's a cheesy make out scene between Coates
and Cassandra Gava in a bathroom
with a pipe bursting in the shower which
was supposed to make you jump but misses
by a longshot.
We do have some good shots on Wightman
going down in the cellar and exploring
with some candles and then a good shot on
a cabinet lighting up with smoke along
with bit part actor Ted A. Bohus
as a ghoul clawing through the inside of
the cabinet and then later on reaching
out for her. We have another good camera
shot on her waking up but then it looks
slacking when she freaks out about the
house being haunted.
There's an actress named Helen Hughes
as an elderly type introducing herself
and talking about the house which looked
way too comedic but yet there are some
laughing moments when she talks about her
cat and holding it.
There's shots on doors slamming and walls
shaking with books falling out which
looked extremely amateurish.
We spot a good shot on a tarantula slowly
walking up on Rubes while
sleeping and then a good shocked reaction
when he wakes up.
We spot some good nightmare sequences
with shots on Coates hanging
himself with some mist in the air.
There's good dialogues with the main cast
in a bar having discussions which looked
natural.
We have a good shot on Hughes
getting scared near a cellar and then
being pushed down the stairs.
We spot a great scene with Coates
at a booth confessing his sins with
supporting actor Jan Rubes as a
priest and then Coates goes in a
screaming rage along with Rubes
looking frightened and trying to pray.
Then we spot a good shot on Coates
pointing a gun at him and shooting.
There's many great struggling moments
between Coates and Wightman
in the house running from the cellar
where there's candles layered and her
hiding from him with shots on her trying
to throw sharp objects at him which was
the best direction of all giving it that
great horror feel finally.
We do spot the classical
music but it really doesn't fit for the
storyline and sounding too corny like the
plot itself. We do hear some screechy
music though for the suspenseful moments
the odd time along with a major
struggling moment almost towards the end
of the film and a powerful classical
songtrack for the closing credits which
sounds nice but that's about it composed
by Milan
Kymlicka
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