Amityville: The Demon Reviews
Back in 1983, this movie was called Amityville 3D. It's an unncessary sequel. Movie is dumb and cheap looking, Just a silly excuse to toss things at the 3D camera, That said, movie is not boring, Actors give their all, especially Candy Clark, Also nice seeing Meg Ryan and Lori Loughlin, when they were really young, Not sure why the movie poster features a chicken foot, There are no chickens in the movie,
Amityville the demon or Amityville 3D doesn't really add much to the franchise apart from it being in 3D and ruining the continuity as well as the house.
I have the blu ray of this in 3D and I love it. Its not a great movie, but sit back and enjoy this mess :)
This relied a bizarre amount on its special effects and the effects sucked. Seeing several pre-fame stars was worth the watch and the premise itself didn't suck (a grounded skeptic moving into the house) but it had the same issues I disliked in previous installments where they've made the ghosts virtually omnipresent as they affect people miles away from the house. There were no intelligent decisions made at any point in the movie, most comically with the paranormal researcher insisting he must confront the demon by leaning in close enough to have his face melted off. The most shocking thing of the entire movie was the absolutely beautiful musical score - it really kept the movie going and was noticeable at all the right moments.
Let's be clear: this isn't a good movie. It's also not so bad that it's great or unintentionally hilarious. Most people probably will not like this film. But for whatever reason, I thought it was alright as a kid, and I still watch it from time to time. It's a guilty pleasure. So I'm giving it an over-inflated three star review for strictly biased personal reasons. It's still better than anything with the Amityville name attached that's come out since then, including the 2005 remake of the original.
The plot, where it exists, is uninteresting or outright confusing. The characters are morons with no genre-awareness, let alone self-awareness, whatsoever. The 3D is an absolute eyesore, so much so that I found it more enjoyable to watch the movie without the red/cyan glasses and just try to interpret the overlapping images in two dimensions. Recommended to anyone who likes to viciously mock movies aloud with like-minded friends.
Cynical tabloid reporter buys the old Amityville house where strange occurrences and the fly problem persist. This 3-D feature ups the ante and is certainly an improvement over Part II before the series got downgraded to tv movie and direct-to-video status. Finale features a rather fantastic monster. Would be worth seeing in 3-D.
Pretty over-the-top and ridiculous, and the 3D is horrible, which is understandable for an 80s b-horror movie. But this will always hold a place with me as it was one of the first horror flicks I saw, and boy did it haunt me... lol
A 3D 온라인카지노추천 would have made this watch so much more fun! Like the other two movies, it was pretty tame really. Nothing special. Although, the monsters are hilarious and great (the ending especially) and I loved the small roles played by a young Meg Ryan and Lori Loughlin from Full House. That alone brought this movie up a bit for me. It's unfortunately not as hilariously bad as part 2, and suffers more from a dragging middle portion.
Believe it to not, this is actually the best of the the three original Amityville Horror films. What makes this one better than the others is that it's essentially a good old fashioned haunted house film along the lines of "The Haunting" or "Hell House." This film is also helped by having a solid director, Richard Fleischer, who was actually an old Hollywood director from the Golden Age, having directed classic films like "Compulsion," "The Vikings," "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" and "Mr. Majestyk." This film was not as gratuitous as the first two films and was a much classier of A film. And don't get my wrong, I'm not opposed to gratuitous horror films if they're done well (i.e. "Evil Dead"). Also, this film doesn't have the ridiculous pretense of the first two films that it's "Based on a True Story." The story this time is that the Iinfamous murder house has been long abandoned and is bought by a reporter from a sceptic magazine, Tony Roberts, who's looking to debunk the houses reputation. When he moves his family in, mysterious things begin to happen. His family, Tess Harper and Lori Loughlin, quickly realize it is haunted, but Roberts refuses to believe anything supernatural is happening. Character actor Robert Joy also shows up in the film as a paranormal investigator. The other fun supporting cast member is Meg Ryan in her second film role as one of Loughlin's teen friends. It's fun to see a young perky Ryan and made me appreciate what a likable screen presence she had in her heyday. There's also a solid score from composer Howard Blake. Outside of a (SPOILER ALERT) ridiculous and random monster that pops out of a hole in the basement to kill Joy, this film is pretty darn good.
A tabloid writer blackmails the owner of the Amityville house to sell it to him really cheap and, once again, strange things happen within. Here scientists get involved to try to explain the phenomena in the house. Both teen girls in support roles (Lori Loughlin and Meg Ryan) went on to good careers. I was pleased that the slip cover to my copy of this film warned me that the VHS home version would not play in 3-D. Highlight was the monster in the basement well. His emergence would have been something to see in 3-D.
This third installment of Amityville is stupid and pointless. All it does is rehash the first two films with uneventful banter between its lifeless characters without any real horror to go along with it. Maybe that is why the word "horror" is not in the title, because there is no horror to be found.
This is non-canon. Can I even say that about a controversial book that people argue about the validity of its truthfulness. I'll put it this way, a lot of money was given to sell a good story. And still to thus day people question the horror behind 112 Ocean Avenue. But either way, this movie isn't canon to the film series. It can't be because the house blows up at the end of the film. It's the random 3D entry. It's a fun film, not really a serious film. The only entry in the series to be rated PG, more like PG-13 today as PG didn't exist at the time.
I have to admit that out of all of the Amityville movies that I've seen as of this writing, Amityville 3-D is the one that I probably enjoyed the most. I would say that's faint praise though, because the movie isn't very good and is probably the cheapest cash-in sequel up to this point (before they started doing direct-to-video sequels, that is). This one also has the most interesting cast: Candy Clark, Tony Roberts, Tess Harper, Lori Loughlin, and Meg Ryan (with Richard Fleischer directing). Like all 3-D movies during this time frame, the attempts at the 3-D effects are obvious and laugh-inducing. The performances can be funny at times too. So I'd say I enjoy the movie for its unintentional comedy more than anything. Its story is silly and unbelievable, so there's no way to get invested in it. I wouldn't say that it's one of the most hilarious unintentionally funny movies I've ever seen, but its charming in that way, enough to make me want to see it more than once. And that's something, especially for this series of movies.
Shows a young Lori Loughlin and Meg Ryan. There's flies, a out of control elevator, pictures that depict an oncoming death, an icy chill in the house, a gate to hell in the basement, demon face in photograph, an out of control car, a seance. The main guy reminds me of Will Ferrel's father. The lady burning up in the car was a good scene. Susan appearing in the house while she was really drowned was creepy. The corpse coming out of the well in the basement was a good touch too.