The Amityville Curse (1990)

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Better Late Then Never

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

This is one of the dumbest horror movies I have ever seen. I simply find it amazing that they keep making these bad movies. The backstory for this is weird, because it says it was based on a book. I know that the original film was based on a book that was revealed to not be based on true events as the writer claimed. So was this one based on true events? I looked in the credits and it said that everything about this movie was fictional. I can certainly believe it because no people in real life would act this stupid.I believe this takes place in the same house as the previous movies, but I haven't seen all of them so I can't be sure. I honestly don't care to go out and watch every one of them. I'm only reviewing those that are somehow important and I saw this because of the extremely low rating here. How silly of me! This movie features a curse, but it has no curse in it at all. There's a few supernatural things that go on, but it's mostly a mundane story about a serial killer. Was the killer supposed to be possessed or something? As the fifth movie in the series, you'd think the townspeople of Amityville would learn their lesson for once.The acting in this film is terrible. Almost all of the characters are obnoxious and serve little purpose at all. There's this weird old woman who keeps popping up and mostly serves no point. This has some of the most clichés I've seen in a movie in a long time. We get the sound of a cat, a spider appearing, a bathtub of blood, and religious imagery. "Amityville 3-D", while still a bad movie, at least tried to have something interesting happen at the climax. The woman playing Debra is particularly bad. I did laugh a few times at how pitiful it was.This isn't for horror movie fans, Amityville fans, movie fans, or anyone at all. I'm surprised this didn't kill the franchise off for good. Apart from that, most of this movie is just plain boring. It escalates way too slowly and has no sensible characters in it. Oh, and I forgot the cliché of the ambiguous nightmares. They stopped numbering the sequels with this. They should have stopped altogether. *

Once again the curse strikes back at new owners who purchase the house at a discount. So once again I have to ask how the house is still standing and how is it possible after the first four events people are still clueless about ghosts?To be honest it felt even more like a television movie them part four with bland actors who will be features on where are they now stories, cheap effects and synthetic music.Speaking about the effects its rehashed with Windows slamming, house trumpeting and words inscribing themselves on mirrors. You could tell the budget was fight.No suspense as scenes end To soon when it gets interesting like Frank becoming possessed only to kill the maid and stopped by his friends before he gets to Deborah. Betraying the mysterious figure who is doing the killings for a cheap easy thrill.The house looks remolded or a new location all together as it doesn't have the same structure or features we've come accustomed to in the first few film.At this point they aren't even trying to keep the true story angle for cheap knockoffs that shouldn't be made. 5/10

I wish I could give it negative stars. If you are a fan of The Amityville series, or just movies in general, do not waste your time on this. You will be horribly disappointed. The plot and characters are poorly written., The writers obviously thought that riding the Amityville coat tales would be enough for a semi successful movie. They could not have been more wrong. This movie goes nowhere. It was like watching a poorly written sitcom: weak ploy, weak acting, It is not to often than one comes across a movie this horrible. I tried watching just hoping it would get better but I could not get through 20 minutes before shutting it off.

A group of friends buy and move into an old Long Island house, where 12 years earlier, a priest was brutally murdered by a teenager who hanged himself before he could be tried by the police. Soon, the newcomers encounter strange and eventually fatal spectral visitations. Will any of them be intelligent enough to get out before the Amityville curse claims them?'The Amityville Curse' bears about as much resemblance to 'The Amityville Horror' as a polar bear with lipstick does to Marilyn Monroe. It's little more than a generic haunted house tale dressed up with the Amityville banner - and when I say 'dressed up', I mean with the same amount of effort put into making a Kalahari bushman pass for a diving instructor by giving him a snorkel. Setting the events in Amityville and one throwaway line from a yokel in a bar about a kid murdering his parents doesn't make an Amityville film.But, I reasoned with myself, what the hell - maybe it'll be like 'Halloween III: Season Of The Witch', which had nothing whatsoever to do with Michael Myers, but was an enjoyable film in its own right. Unfortunately, a hackneyed and incoherent script, annoyingly drawn characters and torturous acting very quickly dashed that optimism against the rocks. Still, 'The Amityville Curse' does helpfully offer up suggestions on things you could be doing that would be less painful than watching it, like being menaced by domestic pets, playing with poisonous chemicals, or maybe having someone frisbee sharp cutting equipment into various parts of your body.Pretty much the only positive I can think of is the sultry presence of Cassandra Gava, who, unlike Kim Coates, seems to be putting some genuine effort into her part - possibly just to make the time go by quicker. There is some genuine acting talent in here, but they are unsurprisingly not inspired to prove this at any time by the script to hand, preferring to let Dawna Wightman crank up the hysterics to 10.Certainly, this isn't the first time I've asked myself why a film was made - I've seen 'Children Of The Corn VI', but 'The Amityville Curse' is definitely another head-scratcher. Its lazy, peripheral attempt to hang onto the coattails of the Amityville franchise only underscores a message we didn't need to learn - you can't staple a couple of Kraft singles to a tomato and call it a lasagne. Likewise, it isn't a decent horror film in its own right. If there truly is a curse here, it's brought to life every time someone decides to watch this thing.