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Tony Roberts, Tess Harper, Candy Clark

A reporter moves into the ominous Long Island house to debunk it of the recent supernatural events and becomes besieged by the evil manifestations which are connected to a hell-spawn demon lurking in ...( read more  read more... )the basement.

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PG, 93 min.

Directed by: Richard Fleischer

Release Date: November 18, 1983

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DVD Release Date: April 5, 2005

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  • FangsFirst
    December 3, 2008
    FangsFirst
    And so I finish the box set that I debated and finally acquired for the purposes of getting the bonus disc it, alone, includes. I didn't pay much and I'm rather pleased with the final experience I got of all three films and the features, especially considering the rather worthles...( read more)s Amityville II. 3-D's gag was mostly the usage of "3-D" in theatres--an effect which failed to make it to the Region 1 release of the film, and so I cannot comment on the effectiveness of (though I will note that Leonard Maltin did speak well of it).

    A couple goes to a seance in the infamous Ocean Ave. house in Amityville, NY to try to speak to the ghost of their lost child Ricky, but when John Baxter (Tony Roberts) and Melanie (Candy Clark) from Reveal magazine appear to check into the legitimacy of the endless claims of haunting in the Amityville house, the man who owns and rents it, Clifford Sanders (John Harkins), offers to sell it to the ever-skeptical Baxter, whose fascination with the hoaxes in the paranormal and parapsychological world has left him with not only friend Elliot West (Robert Joy) to accompany him on "busts," but also, now, with an infamously haunted house. Baxter maintains the house's effective innocence, refusing to believe anything inexplicable has happened there. He takes on the house because he is in the middle of a divorce from his wife Nancy (Tess Harper), leaving their daughter Susan (Lori Loughlin, yes, later on Full House) to gravitate between the two. Sanders dies mysteriously in the house, beginning to frighten Melanie, who also eventually finds herself in unexplained danger, continually failing to impress Baxter and his daughter, despite Nancy's attempt to forbid Susan entry into the house. Her friend Lisa (Meg Ryan--yes, really) is no help to this, though, getting a kick from the house and its legends, as do their male friends. As you might expect, the rest of the film is a fight between skepticism and the supernatural.

    Anyone can take a look at my review of Amityville II and see how much I disliked that film, so I was prepared for anything with this film--quality, subtlety, clumsiness, skill, garbage--whatever. I can't say I was "pleasantly surprised" as I often am, but I was not overtly disappointed either. It sets up camp firmly on the line of mediocre. I was originally set to praise the fact that the film did not make its use of 3-D obvious enough for a viewer without that luxury to enjoy it, but then the inevitable bright red frisbee at the screen and straw wrapper occurred and my praise was lost on that front. Roberts is actually pretty good as the skeptical character of Baxter, drawing a rather obvious (though appreciable) line between what is and what isn't, why he does what he does and the level of hypocrisy inherent in it. Melanie is the skeptic with a comparably wide-open mind who begins to see the truth (not without cliché of course), and Nancy is the complete opposite of Baxter--she is absolutely willing to believe in the house's power or evil in it, without setting foot anywhere near it.

    Effects are passable (much like Amityville II), neither distracting nor easily blended (an enjoyable kind, when dealing with physical effects, I feel), but are interestingly restrained. Usually by a third film, no restraint is shown and horror series fly off cliffs in attempts to top prior efforts with excessive gore, optical and other effects. This I will say was definitely a pleasant surprise, with a lot of the beginning of the film pretty tautly tied between the mystical and the possibility of legitimate explanation.

    Still, the film ends up treading ground that is ultimately completely familiar, and brings little new to the table. It's competently made and decently acted (even the future Full House cast member!), well-enough written and well-paced, but nothing one particularly has actual need to see.
  • drblood
    August 19, 2007
    drblood
    I'm sure the only reason this film is stil in existence is because Meg Ryan has one of her early roles in it. It is even more mean-spirited than the previous instalments and the death scenes really stretch credibility too far. The 3D effects were good at the time but they make wa...( read more)tching it on TV now a bit of a mess. You end up just sitting there thinking, "I bet that bit looked good in 3D!". The rest of the effects are very lacklustre though as is the story itself.
  • YosemiteSamFan
    June 9, 2007
    YosemiteSamFan
    Poorly made Amityville sequel; it just doesn't feel like the house we've all grown to fear. Hollywood greatness has somewhat taken over the low-budget story and made it an effects-driven bore-fest, lessening the scare-factor the other two had. It would've been neato to see this i...( read more)n 3-D. I didn't think Tony Roberts was entirely suitable as the new owner of the Amityville house; he seemed too ordinary and uninteresting. Evil and death seemed to follow characters out of the Amityville house; the sequences I enjoyed were the elevator drop and the car-fire. The movie was originally sub-titled "The Demon" with a big demon claw on the poster. In this film, there is a hell-pit of slime under the basement floor, where the cheesy effect demon emerges. The overall film felt artificial with lack of anything scary.
  • threefolddado
    August 30, 2008
    threefolddado
    And you can subtract a star if you don't see it in 3-D.
  • Horror666
    October 12, 2009
    Horror666
    Another addition to a great series.
  • VTAcinephile
    June 15, 2009
    VTAcinephile
    I owe Richard Fleischer a kick in the balls for killing this franchise!
  • shayha
    May 20, 2009
    shayha
    it's really like a 2.75, i mean come on, this was way back when! ;p and Robert Joy is in it! Hello, Sid from CSI: NY!! Haha... it wasn't terrible.
  • angela32083
    May 5, 2009
    angela32083
    pretty much a waste of time...
  • JonnyMac78
    February 22, 2009
    JonnyMac78
    This movie is your basic 80's horror where most scenes just take long with no dialog just suspicion. And those scenes drag movies for so long to a point where it gets annoying. Though I wish to see this movie at the theter with 3D glasses but i was too young to watch it. The bes...( read more)t part of the whole movie is house technically commiting sucide. It just exploded by itself. Which is what the orignal family should've done to it.
  • KevinTheMovieManiac
    January 27, 2009
    KevinTheMovieManiac
    ha ha I just want to see it for the 3-d lol

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