 
A
photographer named Keyes Terry (Ross
Partridge) is given a mirror by a
crazy homeless man but however he doesn't
seem to want it so instead his friend
Suki (Julia Nickson-Soul) decides to keep
it.
What none of them realise is it's a
mirror from the house in Amityville where
a man has killed his family.
One person named Ray (Robert Rusler) sees
an image of himself getting cut to death
by glass and later on he crashes into a
window with shards of glass cutting his
throat.
Then Suki and another man named Dick
Cutler (David Naughton) have a steamy
affair with one another and then later on
Suki sees an image of in the mirror
hanging herself and does so later on.
Keyes has nightmares of the man who
killed his family and then finds out that
he's the brother of this killer.
Eventually he slowly gets possessed by
the mirror and turns into this person.
An okay type of
film but it does look phony but most of
the Amityville sequels were so what else
can I say?
There are lots of neat cheesy insane
moments in the film with flashback
hallucinations and a good effect on the
mirror in it which kind of spices the
film up. It's also interesting about the
son of the possessed killer at the
Amityville house although they never used
the last name of the DeFeo's.
If you're in the mood for a Z-grader then
you may get a kick out of this.
The acting is
quite good for a low budget
direct-to-video film.
It features many horror icons like
David Naughton who does quite
well by playing a womaniser still showing
his craft as a character actor.
Terry O'Quinn seems to prove his
charm as a sane detective as sometimes
it's hard to see him acting that way once
you've watched him in The
Stepfather. He is quite
impressive.
Lead actor Ross Partridge showed
some energy when needed although he
wasn't one of the best actors in this
film as the son of the possessed killer
at the Amityville house.
Richard Roundtree showed a good
outgoing role in his part as the oldest
roomate of the bunch.
Lin Shaye was quite memorable in her
supporting role as a flirtatious nurse.
Supporting actor Robert Rusler
has a good temperamental attitude as the
disturbed one in the flick.
We have a brief
breast shot performed by Lala
Sloatman while performing a sex
scene
There is also a brief breast shot on
Julia Nickson-Soul having a sex
scene too.
A guy's face is
cut with glass
Someone's head is burned.
A man's chest is stabbed by a sharp
looking object in a room of an asylum.
The directing is
in good shape by John Murlowski as
he shows interesting flashback moments of
the family who original lived there
supposedly the DeFeo's but it's a totally
different setting regardless as there's a
nice shot on bit part actor Robert
Harvey sharpening a knife at a
dinner table.
We have a nice performance by supporting
actor Robert Rusler while
entering the suite intoxicated and
tearing up some artwork acting
aggressive.
He does well by freaking out after
spotting his reflection in the mirror and
backing up as there's many good shots on
the mirror with a red glow to it.
A great shot on Julia Nickson-Soul stabbing
her arm with a small broken glass and
crying.
A nice dialogue with Nickson-Soul acting
lustful towards Robert Naughton
in her room with all the demonic art
paintings. They also perform a good lusty
dance as well as a make out moment.
Ross Partridge and Terry O'Quinn
have a good dialogue together at a
graveyard discussing his family life and
what had happened in that house on
Amityville. Partridge was great
by losing it after seeing his information
on his father's tombstone that he didn't
like.
Naughton does well acting devastated
after seeing a dead body hung.
There's a good shot on Partridge
walking towards a window with the
sunlight reflecting in as if it were the
window of the Amityville house.
A good dialogue between Partridge and
Lin Shaye in a hospital office as
she seems to act bubbly which looked
believeable.
There is a real creepy and intense moment
with Partridge suddenly acting
wild and insane at the asylum and pinning
supporting actress Claudia Gold
to the groung and banging her head
constantly which looked disturbing and
just screaming frantically.
A great close up camera shot on
Partridge screaming by waking up
from a nightmare.
There's a good dark moment with Naughton
going down to the cellar and Nickson-Soul
hauntingly walks towards him acting
sleazy and evil. He shows a great creeped
out expressions trying to keep his
distance from her.
A nice close up shot on supporting actor
Jack Orand lying in a hospital bed
and then his eyes open, then suddenly
laughing like a maniac which really
brings some horror to the film.
There's a great shot approaching Partridge
holding a rifle to his chin panting
heavily.
A good shot on Richard Roundtree carving
a knife showing the flashbacks on Harvey
doing the same thing as well as Patridge
slowly walking up with the rifle and nice
shots on things being shot.
A good reflection on the mirror with Orand
showing an evil smile on his face
chanting evilly and Partridge shouting
while holding the rifle ready to shoot.
The music was
composed by Daniel Licht and did
a good job with it as there's the odd
nice dark synthesizer and piano pounding.
We have a great song during the closing
credits with some thumping and bass
guitar playing along with sounding of
chanting performed by Will as
the track was called "Furnace
Rekindle".
He also composed music for the previous
Amityville sequel as well as the first
two Children of the Corn
sequels and Hellraiser: Bloodline.
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