The Amityville Curse

The Amityville Curse...1990...91 minutes...R...starring Kim Coates, Dawna Wightman, Helen Hughes, and David Stein...directed by Tom Berry

A group of five friends move into a house that one of them has purchased in order to do renovations, spruce up the place, and make it a lovely place. The fact that the psychic woman got a hunch to buy that house? No, that's fine, no worries. The sealed over room in the basement? No, that couldn't be a bad omen. Nightmares? Ignore those...everything's going to be just fine.

Everything will be just fine if you leave this dog alone, that is. This movie is the 4th in the Amityville sequence; but for a movie that's trying to make it on the Amityville title, there are some fairly pressing issues. One, it's not involved with THE house, but it's set in another house across town. (Apparently this town is just rife with supernaturally active spots.) Two, there's no relation to the original story of the house either. It could have happened anywhere, but slap on the Amityville name to draw the crowds, right?

I might not mind such behavior if the movie was a better movie. It's not, though. The acting isn't believable, the writing is sub-par, and if you haven't figured out who the killer is going to be halfway through the film, you're either not paying attention or completely overthinking it. I will say that the ending is amusing watching the amount of physical abuse one person can take...including a can of hot wax to the face! Ooohh, that's gotta hurt! This assumes you'll make it to the end, and that's not an easy assumption to make.

Well, let's see if the next reviewed movie gets any better. I give this selection 1.5 confessionals out of 5.