Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes

[Jewbo]

Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes

A woman buys a lamp from the Amityville house and sends it off to her sister as a
Birthday present. Not before she cuts her finger on it and dies from tetenes of course.
The lamp arrives at the sister’s house the same time as her daughter and three
Grandchildren come to live with her. Now this isn’t any ordinary lamp, no this one is
Possessed by a demon. And how does the demon manifest its self? Why it turns the
Lamp on and off of course as well as turning other electrical items on at will. Scared
yet? The film is very light on scares and is very light on any value of entertainment.
infact it’s a terrible mess. The only half decent scene is when the plummer gets a
Dismembered hand in his face.

3/10

[The Claw]

Being the easy to please person that i am, I enjoyed the hell outta this. good movie imo. not great but a step up from part 3 and that amityville curse movie. but thats just me.

[XCoRyX]

i found this to be horribly ridiculous.

[masknslasher86]

Wasn't this made for TV. I found this one hilarious. 2/10

[mjg 15]

Indeed, if it wasn't for the existence of Dollhouse this would be the worst Amityville movie.

* 1/2 out of ****

[Duke Nukem]

I saw this movie on TV one time. It isn't great. But you gotta give it credit: Being one of the countless horror movies that tease us with people sticking their hands in sink grinders, this is the only one to actually execute such a set-up!

[Jewbo]

i give it no credit wotso ever.

[ERIN_LoJ]

I'm not that hard to please either :D For some reason I liked this one. I enjoy watching Patty Duke. The little girl couldnt act though....come to think of it, neither could the other kids :mad: The lamp idea was as lame as they come, but hey, it held my interest. Not the other amityvilles on the other hand, except the first....*shudder*

[Gluttony]

MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS

An old lady wanting to play a little joke on her sister decides to buy a very ugly lamp from the Amityville Yard Sale. When her sister receives the gift, eerie happenings begin to plague the house and a creepy priest continues to badger her about getting rid of the lamp. Is the lamp really evil?

It has become, by now, that Amityville movies are now associated with the intelligence and interest of baby drool, yet some of us are still coming back to continue watching this proverbial train wreck. It must be a bad case of masochism… Anyhow, make no mistake, this is not a usual haunted house escapade, instead it is a haunted lamp farce. I know this sounds rather harsh (seeing as Amityville has nothing left to offer past part 2), but I admit to have still had some good old fashion bastardizing amusement with this tepid overdramatic potboiler. When it came to compelling characters and dramatic moments, both could be described as flubbed generalities and balderdash. Actually, most of the movie ends up being one phantasmal oddity hanging off the last until the finale where the lamp breaks and makes a huge explosion (?). What is in between is barely kept a float by some rather interesting moments (hand in the garbage disposal), the stupidity of the characters (hand in the disposal), and the insidious soundtrack, which involved a person banging his finger repeatedly on one piano key (my friend actually yelled at my TV for that one. If you just turn off your brain, it can be right hilarious in a horrible train wreck sort of way.

Amityville 4: Evil Escapes can be characterized by the scene in which the mom warns everybody to not use any electronics until they can figure what is causing all of the happenings… then she interrupts herself to answers the phone.

5/10