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Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes (1989)
June 8, 2021 AmityvilleAron Eisenberg, Brandy Gold, cat, demon, electricity, Frederic Lehne, Geri Betzler, grandmother, Jane Wyatt, lamp, mother, Norman Lloyd, parrot, Patty Duke, possession, relocation, Sandor Stern, The Amityville Horror, widow, Zoe Trillingqwipster
In this made-for-network-TV entry, a crack team of Catholic priests comes in to exorcise the demonic presence within the possessed Amityville home. Cornered, the demon finds refuge by traveling through the power cable into a hideous-looking floor lamp. Sensing the evil is gone from the home, the contents of the home are put up at a yard sale, where a frolicsome older woman spies the lamp for a hundred dollars that would make for a great gag gift to send her sister in California.
That sister is Alice Leacock, who lives in a Victorian house overlooking the Pacific Ocean in the fictional northern California town of Dancott. Alice is a bitter fuddy-duddy set in her ways, and unhappy to have to take in her newly widowed daughter, Nancy Evans, and three grandchildren until they can get back on their feet. Alice receives the lamp, placing it prominently in her home, despite her household cat and parrot reacting with alarm to its presence. Not long after, strange occurrences erupt as the evil gets unleashed throughout the house, with the malevolent spirit especially targeting and influencing the youngest of the grandchildren by convincing her that it is her dead father. Meanwhile, one of the priests concludes that the evil may have transferred into one or more of the house's yard sale items and begins sleuthing, trying to warn the family that they are in possession of a powerful demonic presence that will surely destroy them all.
Amityville 3-D (1983) | Richard Fleischer
May 30, 2021 AmityvilleCandy Clark, David Ambrose, demon, Dino de Laurentiiis, flies, haunted house, hoax, John Harkins, Lori Loughlin, Meg Ryan, mythbusters, Neill Barry, ouija, Richard Fleischer, Robert Joy, Tess Harper, The Amityville Horror, Tony Robertsqwipster
John Baxter is a recently divorced journalist working for an investigative magazine called Reveal. Baxter's latest assignment exposes a seance scam operating within the abandoned Amityville home on Long Island, New York. Afterward, Baxter finds that the house is immensely affordable due to its sordid history of terrible things happening to those who've been inside. Baxter, apparently needing to find a new place following his divorce that has fourteen rooms covering three floors, moves into the house certain that all prior calamities were coincidences, delusions, and hoaxes. That bottomless pit in the basement others have claimed a portal to hell? Oh, that's just an abandoned well. It has plenty of space for himself and his teenage daughter when she visits, as well as solitude for writing the "great American novel" he's been talking about for years. Others around him experience strange events and implore him to leave. He won't because he's convinced the house's reputation is causing mass hysteria. Unfortunately, with his daughter staying with him on occasion, he soon discovers that being wrong might be dead wrong.
Amityville II: The Possession (1982) | Damiano Damiani
May 24, 2021 Amityvilleabuse, Brent Katz, Burt Young, Damiano Damiani, demon, Diane Franklin, Erika Katz, evil, exorcism, fratricide, haunted house, incest, Jack Magner, James Olson, Leonardo Cimino, matricide, Moses Gunn, murder, patricide, possession, Rutanya Alda, The Amityville Horror, Tommy Lee Wallaceqwipster
In this prequel of a sort to The Amityville Horror (1979), the dysfunctional Montelli family moves into their new home and finds many curious things right away, including every window being nailed shut and a secret room in the basement of the house that is full of flies, muck and smells to high heaven (or down to low Hell). The longer they stay, the more they begin to witness strange events, and bicker violently with one another, until the eldest son of the family, Sonny ( Jack Magner), actually begins to exhibit behavior that may not be his own, including a desire to kill his abusive father, Anthony (Burt Young), and defile his younger teenage sister, Trish (Diane Franklin). Before things get completely out of hand, the mother requests that a local priest, Father Adamsky (James Olson), come out to investigate the supernatural events of the place, but without the backing of his superiors, he's going it alone against what appears to be a portal to unfathomable evil that resides below the house. Rutanya Alda and Andrew Prine also appear. Directed by Damiano Damiano from a script by Tommy Lee Wallace.
The Amityville Horror (1979) | Stuart Rosenberg
May 10, 2021 Amityvillebased on a book, based on a true story, demon, demonic possession, Don Stroud, flies, haunted house, imaginary friend, James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Murray Hamilton, new home, pig, priest, Rod Steiger, spirit, The Amityville Horrorqwipster
The Amityville Horror is based on a popular novel by Jay Anson with a little longer title, "The Amityville Horror – A True Story". The true story is, at this point, well known to be fictitious, but it did give the public quite a rise for a while. In the story, a young man ends up shooting his parents and sibling while they slept in the middle of the night for reasons even he couldn't begin to explain. The horrific events shocked the small town, but the house was still deemed worthy for sale. Enter the Lutz family, who buy the house because it is going for a relatively cheaper rate than if it didn't have the malevolent stigma, but they can't pass up the price. However, weird things start happening, starting with the fact that the preacher (Rod Steiger,) who comes to bless the house is scared out of his wits, soon after suffering from an unknown ailment he feels has been inflicted by the evil within the house. The Lutz family themselves start exhibiting weird behavior themselves, with the father, George (James Brolin), always feeling cold, and having little motivation to do anything more than chop wood for the fire. Doors and windows open and close, the daughter starts talking to an imaginary (?) friend, and the dog starts sniffing around the cellar trying to dig up something only he knows is there. Margot Kidder costars.
Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986) | Brian Gibson
April 13, 2021 Poltergeistafterlife, Brian Gibson, cave, Craig T. Nelson, cult, demon, ghost, grandmother, Heather O'Rourke, JoBeth Williams, Julian Beck, Mark Victor, Michael Grais, Native American, Oliver Robins, Phoenix, Poltergeist, possession, reverend, shaman, Will Sampson, worm, Zelda Rubinsteinqwipster
Poltergeist II: The Other Side seeks to give more back story to the events of the first film, why the youngest child in the Freeling family had been wanted by the spirits, and the nature of the cult from which the spirits culminated, headed by Reverend Henry Kane (Julian Beck). Kane manifests himself in human form in this sequel, tenacious in his pursuit of young Carol Anne (Heather O'Rourke), now moved away with her family in the hope they could start a new life for themselves. Tangina Barron (Zelda Rubinstein), the paranormal investigator from Poltergeist, sends out a Native American shaman (Will Sampson) to help protect the family once she discovers the hidden cave buried in the ground where Kane and his followers died, knowing that the family will not be able to escape Kane's interest no matter where they might go. Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, and Oliver Robins return.
Legend (1985) | Ridley Scott
March 17, 2018 Brink of Extinction1985, adventure, demon, fairy, fantasy, Mia Sara, Ridley Scott, romance, Tim Curry, Tom Cruise, unicornqwipster
Following up two sci-fi masterpieces in ALIEN and BLADE RUNNER, Ridley Scott turned his gaze toward the realm of fantasy with LEGEND, starring Tom Cruise and Mia Sara. Critics greeted the film with a shrug upon its initial release, but it has gained a cult following over the years, and the Director's Cut release has had some re-evaluate it. Is it still problematic, or is it a film that has aged well over time?