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Good Fun for Amityville Fans
I found this movie in the clearance bin at a local discount store. I had frankly never heard of it, nor remember it being on tv. It looked interesting however, and since I am a fan of the original Amityville Horror movie I decided to go ahead and purchase it. I didn't have high hopes for the movie however, but I was pleasantly surprised. The storyline is the horror house in Amityville is cleaned out and a garage sale ensues. An evil spirit has gone into a creepy looking lamp and an elderly woman purchases it to send as "a joke" to her sister in California. Jane Wyatt plays the Grandma who receives the lamp. Patty Duke is her recently widowed daughter who brings her 3 children to live with Wyatt. The lamp arrives and the fun begins. It is surprisingly creepy and I was pretty impressed that considering there are so gory moments that this was actually a made for TV movie. It certainly is not academy award material but if you are a fan of the original Amityville Horror movie I think you will enjoy this little movie. I'm glad I purchased it and know I will watch it again.

Why use a different house??
Well, from the looks of the other reviews, it looks like I'm going to be in the minority on this one. The original Amityville house, with the third floor triangular, chilling windows made the original Amityville movie a worldwide hit. Who could forget the windows and their chilling, eerie feeling they'd give you?? Amityville 4 seems to slip away from the psychological terror that was so prominent in the first three Amityville movies by giving quick, silly, and cheap scares. It was creepy, I'll admit, when the youngest girl in the family kept talking to the lamp, thinking that it was her father. But the scares in the movie aren't as drawn out and psychological as they were in the first movie. There is even some gore in the movie, which doesn't scare me, it just grosses me out. I just find evil hauntings such as wierd noises, strange sights(remember the demons that were coming out of the door in the cellar in the second Amityville movie?) and evil paranormal activity to be much more frightening. The movie actually DOES have the original Amityville house in the beginning of the movie, where a group of priests exorcise the house from the evil, which I felt was a mistake. I don't see what's wrong with continually using the same house if you're going to do a movie with "Amityville" in the title. The original house was perfect for a evil haunted house movie. The house wasn't TOO big, not too small, and it was old and creepy looking to begin with. Not to mention that it was nice enough of a house where all the creepy things that have gone on in the first three movies inside it added to the intrigue of the movie. But I gave it a try anyway, and although many people may disagree with me, I have to say, if you're going to make a movie with the word "Amityville", you should stick with the original house that made the first movie a hit across the world. And you should also stick with the same types of psychological terror that was so prevalent in the first three movies. To make a long story short, it really wasn't scaring me. As far as the cast, one thing that was turning me off was that there were a couple of elderly women in the movie who reminded me of Alice from the Brady Bunch or extras for the Golden Girls, who both unfortunately have big roles. The youngest daughter was great at her part, as the one who gets drawn to the lamp repeatedly and the evil inside the lamp tries to control her. Patty Duke, who's not only very attractive in the movie plays her part very well as the mother of the little girl. You also won't mind(trust me, guys) looking at the older daughter. The young priest in the movie was very good too. Watching him exorcise the Amityville house in the beginning of the movie was REALLY COOL!! If you're an Amityville freak, it MIGHT be worth checking it out just to see the original house in the beginning, and a FEW scenes with the youngest daughter's obsession with the lamp. And guys, it definately won't hurt to see the mother and older daughter in the movie. Other than that, the movie should have stayed with the original Amityville house. I cannot believe there are absolutely NO MORE ideas moviemakers could come up with for the original house.