Ameriatch One of the best films i have seen

MonsterPerfect Good idea lost in the noise

Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

Married Baby Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

lost-in-limbo After the outrageous "Amityville 3D", the rest of the films of the franchise wouldn't see a cinema release until the 2005 remake of the original. "The Evil Escapes" would get a TV release, but those after it would go straight to video. Anyhow this entry begins off with a group of priests preparing to enter the Amityville house (even though it did blow up after the third feature) to battle the evil force that dwells within. But the entity manages to escape in to a sinisterly ugly looking lamp and the priest that happened to see it was badly knocked out. Couple weeks have past and the priest has awakened to discover the lamp was sold as a garage sale. Now it's ended up on the other side of the country, dwelling in the home of Mrs Alice Leacok who's newly widowed daughter and her three children have just moved in. Soon enough unusual things begin to happen and the youngest child keeps stating she can see her dead father. This particular sequel has a different take on the Amityville curse, but its outcome is just… bonkers. Making it terrifying for all the wrong reasons. So many stupid things occur; you wonder how everyone keeps a straight-face. Think about it. A haunted lamp. Even if it wasn't haunted. Its just looks ominous… and ugly. We watch how the entity makes the light glow (when its not plugged in?!), attract the flies and then move between the electrical cords (a lump of black goo), as it goes about causing trouble, which often leads to freak accidents and machinery going crazy. Hey we even get some uncontrollable chainsaw action; a melting phone and an insane climax when the family battles the flickering satanic lamp ending off with a payoff which makes you think why it took them this long. A little extreme, but it does the job. These shocks might be nasty, but at the same time quite humorous. Some sequences are just too fun, but they indeed lack the rush. The family at the receiving end of this curse are an irritating bunch. How the youngest child (who's quite a sour-face) becomes possessed just reeks of "Poltergeist". The mother is clueless, while the two dumbfounded teenagers (Zoe Trilling) fair no better. Jane Wyatt is suitably good in her role as Mrs Leacok and then there's Fredric Lehne who plays the priest that persistently comes off second best with the encounters. For a TV production is durably pulled off with some decent location atmosphere (the remote house is on top of a cliff that faces an ocean) and the camera-work fluidly frames the action. The music score can be a little too raucous and uncanny. What can you say, be careful when you decide to drop in at a garage sale."That evil is searching for souls".

atinder A number of priest, go to this house and get the evil force out of the house, one of the priest get hurts and see that evil force as got into the lamp.Now that stuff of the house, is now being for sale and that includes the Lamp that as evil force in it.two women then end up buying the lamp, so she send it to her sister for her birthday.The lamp get to her sister, Alice Leacock house and on that same day Alice Leacock Alice's daughter, Nancy Evans and her 3 kids Amanda, Brian and Jessica come to stay and i can not wait to open the package.Soon odd thing start to happen, alice tells Nacy thinks this is all kids doing, Nacy is also worried about Jessica is talking to Lamp, thinking she talking her dad, who passed away before.Meanwhile the priest is out of hospital and trying to track down the lamp and but time is running out fast, will it make in time to save the family before evil force takeover yet another house.This is movie is really good, much better then the third, this movie can a get a bit silly at times but it works well with the rest of the movie, movie never gets boring, there is always something to keep you entertained.One of the better movies in the series, I will give this movie 6 out of 10

Vomitron_G When I have my mind set on something, you can be damn sure I'll make it happen. As of lately, I had my mind set on knowing the truth about the AMITYVILLE series. I had developed a curiosity towards the whole franchise (yes, all of the 9! Movies). If only, it was for trying to understand how such a mediocre haunted house movie from 1979 could spawn no less than 8 sequels/prequels/instalments/re-incarnations/and a re-make. And frankly, I still don't understand it. Even though I must admit I've developed a certain liking towards the iconic Amityville-based house of hauntings (which is only the main place of horrifying events in the first three movies and re-make) and I did have a bit of fun with the straight-to-video sequels from the 90's, sitting through the complete series wasn't all that of an enjoyable experience, I'm afraid… Well, my negative feelings towards AMITYVILLE might have been influenced by the last one I could check off my list, being... ...AMITYVILLE IV: THE EVIL ESCAPES. I've now seen them all. And boy, oh, boy, this 4th instalment undoubtedly is the worst, in my humble opinion. You can already guess it could suck bigtime when you know that after part 3 (a theatrical release from 1983), they suddenly came up with this made-for-TV movie in 1989. I don't really know what happened to the continuity of the AMITYVILLE time-line, because THE EVIL ESCAPES opens with a scene where we can see some priests trying to cleanse the notorious house. The next sequence shows us a yard-sale in front of the house, where people are selling all the furniture and stuff from the house. Now, because of the house having been destroyed at the end of part 3, I can only assume that part 4 takes place somewhere between the second and the third movie. Well, no problem with that, really. The real problem lies with the fact that THE EVIL ESCAPES remains made-for-TV rubbish from the beginning 'til the end. So this goofy looking stand-up lamp (about the size of a human, and even equipped with two arm-shaped tentacles with light-bulbs as hands) gets bought at the yard-sale and shipped to some other house where an elderly lady lives (her being the sister of the person who purchased it). Around that same time, her daughter with her three kids moves into the house with her (because of her husband having died). And then this movie becomes more like a family drama than a horror movie, really. There's some arguing, disputing, etc… The only horror in this movie is supposed to be coming from the lamp, and all it does (on numerous occasions) is starting to light up and turn itself off again without being plugged in. Well, its electrical cord does strangle somebody in one scene. Pretty predictable, of course. But at not one point it does something else. I was so hoping for the damn thing to come alive or something, but alas… But it does seem to attract flies. And on two occasions it shows us the image of some devil-dude's face projected in the big light-bulb at the top. Pretty cheesy.One hilarious scene in the basement has the son (who's got an incredible silly hair-cut, looking way too old for his age, and also over-acts just a tad bit too much) loosing control over a possessed chainsaw. Of course nobody gets hurt (hey, it's a made-for-TV movie, remember?), but it was one of the most funny scenes of the whole movie (seeing the little dude pull silly faces and all trying to control the chainsaw). Well, the ending is a hoot too. It's the Priest vs. the very static Haunted Lamp. Very funny. And then grandma (of all people!) just picks the darn thing up and throws it out of the window! Between all the family-drama, the youngest daughter gets possessed by the evil spirit too and seems to be able to talk to her dead dad (who we don't see throughout the movie, of course). The other tedious events in THE EVIL ESCAPES include one plumber getting killed by some Black Gooey Substance of Death and a teenager getting his hand cut off in the garbage disposal sink device thing (how imaginative!). Oh, and the lady who initially bought the ugly lamp, dies (after cutting her finger on it) from tetanus in the hospital. There, now you know it and you don't have any reason to watch this rubbish. Or wait a minute. You might still want to get a copy of this movie for free and fast forward to the end of it. It features a frozen frame shock ending of a… possessed cat! Complete with cheesy red-glowing eyes and all! Aside from that end-shot, seeing Zoe Trilling's cute face again as the teenage daughter Amanda, was the only joy I got out of this movie (she's credited as Geri Betzler, by the way, in this movie). Oh and yes, I almost forgot: A pet-bird also ends up in a toaster-oven. Haha. All the rest is boring, bad and silly crap. But since it was a made-for-TV thing from the late 80's, I'll try to be generous in my final rating.Aside from elderly ladies who have done nothing else with their lives other than being a housewife (and I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that, okay?), I can not recommend this movie to anybody. THE EVIL ESCAPES simply is the worst (and most un-eventful) movie of the whole series (at least in book). You want to know what I thought was the best one? Guess what…? It's the re-make (from the original) made in 2005. And the one I had the most fun with? Probably part 2 THE POSSESSION (very loosely based on the real Defeo murders). That one goes so much over-the-top and then suddenly turns into a shameless EXORCIST rip-off. Recommended for those facts alone even.

Tikkin I wasn't expecting much from this film, however it turned out to be decently entertaining considering it's the fourth Amytville sequel. The plot concerns a possessed lamp removed from the original Amytville house, that is now in a new house causing mayhem. The acting is decent and the story isn't too boring. Sadly it lacked gore, but then so did a lot of films in the late 80's.Whenever I see a lamp now I always think of this film, whether that's a good thing or not I don't know. If you can find a cheap copy then it may be worth a watch, however I wouldn't go out of your way to find it as it's not the best around.