Amityville: Dollhouse (1997)

That was an excellent one.

Absolutely the worst movie.

Absolutely Brilliant!

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Amityville Dollhouse is a really fun 90s supernatural Horror & Thriller & it's absolutely fine!!! It's what it's ment to be a fun straight to video Horror. I like it when sequels move onto other characters & other situations but are slightly linked to the others films it creates a fun universe within the franchise just like what Halloween did with the BRILLIANT cult classic season of the witch & what Friday the 13th did with A new beginning!!! That's all fun to me & stops things getting boring so here in Dollhouse it's all completely new characters & a new setting & new house & IT'S all good creepy fun, i enjoyed bk in the 90s when i got it on video & it's still good fun now & a hundred times better than most of todays crap

Amityville: Dollhouse (1996) * (out of 4) Silly eighth entry in the original series has a husband moving his son and daughter into a house he built with his new wife and her son. None of the kids like the other parent but things take a turn for the worse when daddy finds an old dollhouse in a shed, which just happens to be a replica of the Amityville house. Soon enough all sorts of weird things begin to happen and of course no one thinks about destroying the dollhouse. AMITYVILLE: DOLLHOUSE is yet another direct-to-video cash-in on the original series and I guess the producers knew it was such a turkey that they didn't even try to make another one. This is a pretty bad film on many levels but unlike some of the other rip-offs (like AMITHVILLE: IT'S ABOUT TIME), this one here doesn't work on any level. Most of these sequels had little to nothing to do with the original film but it's clear the title Amityville meant rentals so we had all sorts of strange stories made up with that title added. There's very little working for this movie but at least the creatures at the very end look pretty good. Outside of that it's your typical low-budget horror movie with bland performances, a bad story and just nothing exciting going on. The death scenes are all laughable and just wait until you see the giant mouse that shows up.

The Amityville Horror: in the real world, it's about a young man brutally murdering his family one night on a drug-fuelled rampage. In the world of film and fantasy, it's about demons in the cellar, possession, evil lamps, sinister clocks and unnecessary 3D. The film franchise has had a long life and some of the installments have been - and let's be kind here - god-awful. 'Dollhouse' was the very final installment before someone turned back the clock with the 2005 reboot, and having watched every single Amityville thus far made, I can honestly say it's not the worst. No, for that, we have to go back to 1992 for the pain and misery that is 'The Amityville Possession'. Many of the sequels would spin a yarn from an artifact removed from the Long Island house that would then raise hell in a new setting. In 'Dollhouse', the house itself is an artifact in miniature. When the Martins, a dysfunctional Brady-style family (two single parents and their kids coming together as one unit) move into their new home, conflicts are down-to-earth and domestic until Martin Snr finds an old dollhouse in the shed that just happens to be the spitting image of the infamous residence in Long Island. As soon as the replica is brought into the house, things begin to go pear-shaped. Household appliances take on a life of their own, people start having bad dreams, and Jimmy, the youngest son, begins to see the rotting animated corpse of his dead birth father. Will everyone realise the cause of the disturbances in time, or will they all succumb to the evil designs of the dollhouse?Amityville VIII, unlike its predecessors, makes no attempt to tie its plot in with the source material. No references are made to the DeFeo murders, demonic possession, or even the house itself. The only connection is the obvious visual link with the Dutch-colonial dollhouse, whose origins are never explored. It's as if the producers are saying 'Look, it's straight-to-video, you know the story, no-one will be watching who doesn't.' However, putting aside the very obvious question regarding where the dollhouse came from and what connection - if any - it has to the actual Amityville house, the story follows the familiar structure of its predecessors: characters possessed by demonic forces, unexplainable local phenomena and even killer insects. Also present is that same sense of deja vu, wherein you once again know you're watching a generic horror film with the word 'Amityville' stamped on it. To expect a lot at this stage however, after even the recycled ideas have been recycled, would be asking too much. This latest retreading still manages to be entertaining and not without its moments, and the actors present give convincing enough performances with the material handed to them. Compared with other entries in the series,the horror elements here are lower in tone, and the death scenes few and far between. There are a few dodgy monster moments, which while tied into the plot, aren't realised with the kind of budget that would do them justice, and the prosthetics only just about work. Overall however, the story follows its own internal logic well enough not to cause irritation and so long as you don't try to integrate it into the Amityville universe, it's an entertaining enough 90 minutes.I have to say that watching every Amityville in the series has been torturously painful at times, sometimes making me wonder why I'm a sucker for B-grade horror. However, there have been some notable entries as well, with 1992's 'It's About Time' probably the most imaginative. 'Dollhouse' is a less ambitious rehashing of the formula, but it stands above the real clankers, enough to not leave a bitter aftertaste.

This one, (the last one), really has it's quirks- seriously.This film consists of all of the right ingredients of a modern horror flick: Sex, lies, drama, horror, fantasy, suspense, terror, and "lots of fire" all together in bits, thrown together to make an INREDIBLE come-back for the Amityville series.A doll-house takes the role of the terror this time, and ultimately leads to the final confrontation, and the final ending of the Amityville saga.The series has lived long, and has gone out with a big BANG as a wonderful 90's flick.This is a good one, folks. Make no mistake.