A
newlywed couple named Bill (Robin Thomas)
and Claire (Starr Adreeff) with different
kids move into a house but however, the
stepsiblings don't seem to adjust too
well plus one of the kids named Jimmy
(Jarrett Lennon) is unhappy with the
house and his stepfather as well as his
stepbrother named Todd (Allen Cutler) and
wants them out of his life.
Well Bill's daughter named Jessica
(Rachel Duncan) celebrates her birthday
as he finds a dollhouse in the garage of
the new house and gives it to her for a
present. However, little does he know it
was a dollhouse from the house in
Amityville as it was on fire and killed a
family there. The dollhouse is posessed
by supernatural spirits that have
devastated families in the past from the
burned down house.
Strange events starts to occur as Jimmy
sees his father return from the dead and
tells him that things will be back to
normal for him but he has deadly plans
for Bill.
Also the house gets too hot and people
are attacked by certain creepy things in
the house along with some windstorms too.
Slowly the family gets posessed in the
house as wel by the evil spirits and the
family must learn to fight back from the
tormentors of these spirits.
Ahh yes, this film
tried to carry on the tradition of the
Lutz family. Although nowhere as good
it's still very well done and one of the
best sequels ever.
However, the film is a little too long at
times and could've been cropped down a
bit. Still this one is worth checking out
and remains the last one out of the Amityville
series.
The acting is very
well performed and a very strong cast is
involved with this film.
Robin Thomas played a good
strict as nails parent. At times you want
to hate him but other times you want to
love him.
Starr Adreef played a nice
former widow newlywed and shows nice
scared expressions and played a good
basketcase with what was going on in the
house.
We have another outgoing performance by Allen
Cutler as a typical horny teenager.
The best out of them all is child actor Jarrett
Lennon as he brings his character to
life as an oddball in the family and
being unhappy about the adjustments of
his new family life.
We have an awesome supporting role by
Clayton Murray as his father
returning from the dead who is
convincingly evil.
Lisa Robin
Kelly unbuttons her shirt in a
garage and her breasts are fully exposed
during a make-out sequence.
There is a zombie
that looks quite gruesome
A teenage girls head is burned and
scarred.
Steve White
does his work well with the actors and
the scenery involved with this one and
deserves fair credit.
He coached a nice dialogue sequence
between Robin Thomas and Allen
Cutler during a father and son talk
and the difficulties adjusting to a new
family and home.
There was also a great brief haunting
sequence involving Thomas
walking in the hallway of the house and a
fire lights up. Then there's a ghostly
woman talking to him inside the fireplace
which looked impressive and a nice shot
at the fireplace too.
There's a suspenseful scene when a
tarantula lands on the face of young Jarrett
Lennon who plays the role of Jimmy
Martin after hitting a pinyata with the
stick. His reactions were well when he is
scared stiff and showed great aggression
towards Cutler and whacking him
with the stick. It looked very intense.
We have nice moments between Lennon
and Clayton Murray as it looked
spooky during their first scene together
as son and zombie father.
We have perfect hauntings like a wind
storm blowing into a house as well as a
giant rodent underneath a bed too.
There's also a real shocking camera shot
of a wasp going inside of Cutler's ear
too.
Plus there's nice camera shots of the
dollhouse when smoke goes up the chimney
as well as it lighting up and a scene
where it spins around.
He also directs lead actress Starr
Adreeff terrifically with her scared
and troubled emotions as well as her
acting lustful when she touches and feels
herself too. Plus she was great at acting
ballistic towards Thomas' character
and chases him out of the house as it
keeps you occupied of what the hell is
going on.
His best direction was with supporting
actor Clayton Murray as he knew
how to make him witty yet cold and evil.
We see a dynamic scene with some demons
and giant voodoo dolls in battle between Franc
Ross, Thomas and Rachel
Duncan.
The music was composed by Ray Colcord and
although it isn't too memorable he did
some effective keyboard playing for the
terror scene's in the film.
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