Review of Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes

Introduction

Made in 1989, this looks like a TV movie that follows the ever popular story about an evil house where nasty things happen to anyone who puts in an offer.

Amityville is a story supposedly based on a real house where blood runs down the walls and evil feeds off the fear of the inhabitants but personally I think that the "Big Brother House" is much improved these days.

Anyhow the story is that an evil lamp becomes possessed by the evil spirit of the house and transferred thanks to those pesky removal men to a place far-far away-possibly Kansas or California, I fell asleep at this point, being worn out having shouted "don`t touch the lamp Mrs, and don`t buy it!" La la a widow and her lovely children, erm teenagers got to live with the evil granny, in the evil house where they meet the oh so evil lamp and the evil er radio and ooh chainsaw and mayhem ensues.

Well I think it does because I turned it off at this point and threw it away.

Video

This has a truly evil look. Methinks it be the TV movie made for peanuts effect which translates into a particularly muddy image on DVD.

Did I mention the evil lamp? It looks like it could have been designed by anyone on Changing Rooms, you know it looks evil and a bit like a tree also.

Audio

The less said about the music (eurgh), the script (rumour has it that this was written on the back of a fag packet) and anything else to do with producing sound effects, the better.

Features

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Conclusion

Hard to believe that plastic has been expended on producing more than one copy of this dire movie which is best left untouched in the vault that time forgot. The good news is that there is now a process where DVDs can be ground into reusable powder and one day this disc may actually have a real function in life.

I think I might go back and watch the rest of this some time unless I decide to do the grouting.