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When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

The evil escapes, the restored house, inside of an ugly lamp bought at a yard sale by a woman for her recently widowed daughter.Shifting our focus to California, Nancy and her three kids move in only to experience the same paranormal activity that befall those in Long Island.How the original house is still left standing after three falls back on my theory that it was meant to be the last and these are the events that took place before. Also I find it a little hard to believe the Lutz's left everything they owned behind.The mythology will follow this route of using appliances until the very end and even reminds me of the same style used for Stephen King's Trucks of everyday tools turning against their owners.While an evil lamp sounds silly, it actually was creepy taking on an inhumane form and adding to The atmosphere. Willing its power over the helpless inhabitants inside the home and even striking at opportune events to cause echoes. Like the poor handyman who has his arm chewed to bits in the garbage exposil and the eldest son trashing The basement in a fit of rage.Party Duke was delightful, fabulous and blew the rest of the caste away by her star presence.Not a bad television production and even became one of my favorites sequels.

A Californian family's lives are thrown into turmoil by the presence of an old lamp sent to them by a well-meaning relative, a lamp that used to reside in a certain old house in Amityville.'The Evil Escapes' came out at a time when several horror franchises had fallen from earlier grace and were seeing low-budget revivals on television: 'Amityville IV', 'Psycho IV', and indeed 'The Omen IV'. Amityville IV for me is most definitely the weakest, with a script about an evil lamp that presumably didn't sell as is, so it was retooled until it could wear the 'Amityville' banner in order to ever see the light of day. Pure speculation on my part, given that it's apparently based on a book (then again, some books are inflatable bath toys), but that's pretty much how it looks from where I'm sitting.Following the house's miraculous recovery after it exploded fairly comprehensively in the last film, priests sweep across its reconstituted floors to exorcise the evil it contains once and for all. This they seemingly achieve, and soon after, the house's contents are sold off in a yard sale, including an old lamp we've never seen before during the time of the Lutzs, the Montellis or the Baxters, (maybe they can cgi it into the original Amityville Horror George Lucas-style) which attracts the attention of a buyer, who figures it'd look good in her sister's house over on the west coast. Unbeknownst to her, the lamp contains the demonic essence of the Long Island house from whence it came and it soon takes over the lives of its new victims. The inconsistencies seem baffling given that the screenplay was written Sandor Stern, screenplay scribe for the first Amityville - unless the original Sandor Stern exploded a few years earlier, reconstituted himself and isn't quite the same person, in much the same way that the Amityville house is quite obviously not the same. Or maybe Spectacor Films' budget didn't stretch to the inclusion of proper continuity.Still, if you put all this aside, 'The Evil Escapes' is not completely without entertainment value. There are a few seat-squirming moments involving certain household appliances as well as a few good practical effects. I'm not really familiar with Patty Duke's back catalogue, very possibly not my cup of tea, but while it's clearly just a paycheck for her, she pulls the drama up a notch with the amount of effort the production deserves. Star Trek fans may enjoy seeing Aron Eisenberg without the Ferengi makeup and indeed Jane Wyatt, although she too barely needs to do more than phone in her lines, much like fellow Trek alumnus Norman Lloyd. Frederic Lehne is also a welcome presence, doing his best to keep his 'frightened priest' a few notches above 'Crispin Glover'.Sandor Stern's direction is smoother than his script, and while no particular shot stands out, nothing seems out of place. Rick Conrad provides a rather uninteresting score powered by those late-80s synths that managed to age faster than Tony Blair's face, but at least it's more consistent than Howard Blake's effort in Amityville III - though Blake was clearly more talented.If you're completely mad like me and watch every installment of a film series (especially horror) even though you're well-aware the sequels are most likely diminishing returns, you'll probably watch this anyway. If on the other hand, you made it through Amityville III without completely losing the will to live and want to know if part IV will deliver the death blow to your sanity, the answer is no. I think III and IV, although very different beasts, offer about the same amount of entertainment value. My yardstick is part II, which I thought was a surprisingly good first sequel. From here on out, it's all straight to video.

When I have my mind set on something, you can be damn sure I'll make it happen. As of lately, I had my mind set on knowing the truth about the AMITYVILLE series. I had developed a curiosity towards the whole franchise (yes, all of the 9! Movies). If only, it was for trying to understand how such a mediocre haunted house movie from 1979 could spawn no less than 8 sequels/prequels/instalments/re-incarnations/and a re-make. And frankly, I still don't understand it. Even though I must admit I've developed a certain liking towards the iconic Amityville-based house of hauntings (which is only the main place of horrifying events in the first three movies and re-make) and I did have a bit of fun with the straight-to-video sequels from the 90's, sitting through the complete series wasn't all that of an enjoyable experience, I'm afraid… Well, my negative feelings towards AMITYVILLE might have been influenced by the last one I could check off my list, being... ...AMITYVILLE IV: THE EVIL ESCAPES. I've now seen them all. And boy, oh, boy, this 4th instalment undoubtedly is the worst, in my humble opinion. You can already guess it could suck bigtime when you know that after part 3 (a theatrical release from 1983), they suddenly came up with this made-for-TV movie in 1989. I don't really know what happened to the continuity of the AMITYVILLE time-line, because THE EVIL ESCAPES opens with a scene where we can see some priests trying to cleanse the notorious house. The next sequence shows us a yard-sale in front of the house, where people are selling all the furniture and stuff from the house. Now, because of the house having been destroyed at the end of part 3, I can only assume that part 4 takes place somewhere between the second and the third movie. Well, no problem with that, really. The real problem lies with the fact that THE EVIL ESCAPES remains made-for-TV rubbish from the beginning 'til the end. So this goofy looking stand-up lamp (about the size of a human, and even equipped with two arm-shaped tentacles with light-bulbs as hands) gets bought at the yard-sale and shipped to some other house where an elderly lady lives (her being the sister of the person who purchased it). Around that same time, her daughter with her three kids moves into the house with her (because of her husband having died). And then this movie becomes more like a family drama than a horror movie, really. There's some arguing, disputing, etc… The only horror in this movie is supposed to be coming from the lamp, and all it does (on numerous occasions) is starting to light up and turn itself off again without being plugged in. Well, its electrical cord does strangle somebody in one scene. Pretty predictable, of course. But at not one point it does something else. I was so hoping for the damn thing to come alive or something, but alas… But it does seem to attract flies. And on two occasions it shows us the image of some devil-dude's face projected in the big light-bulb at the top. Pretty cheesy.One hilarious scene in the basement has the son (who's got an incredible silly hair-cut, looking way too old for his age, and also over-acts just a tad bit too much) loosing control over a possessed chainsaw. Of course nobody gets hurt (hey, it's a made-for-TV movie, remember?), but it was one of the most funny scenes of the whole movie (seeing the little dude pull silly faces and all trying to control the chainsaw). Well, the ending is a hoot too. It's the Priest vs. the very static Haunted Lamp. Very funny. And then grandma (of all people!) just picks the darn thing up and throws it out of the window! Between all the family-drama, the youngest daughter gets possessed by the evil spirit too and seems to be able to talk to her dead dad (who we don't see throughout the movie, of course). The other tedious events in THE EVIL ESCAPES include one plumber getting killed by some Black Gooey Substance of Death and a teenager getting his hand cut off in the garbage disposal sink device thing (how imaginative!). Oh, and the lady who initially bought the ugly lamp, dies (after cutting her finger on it) from tetanus in the hospital. There, now you know it and you don't have any reason to watch this rubbish. Or wait a minute. You might still want to get a copy of this movie for free and fast forward to the end of it. It features a frozen frame shock ending of a… possessed cat! Complete with cheesy red-glowing eyes and all! Aside from that end-shot, seeing Zoe Trilling's cute face again as the teenage daughter Amanda, was the only joy I got out of this movie (she's credited as Geri Betzler, by the way, in this movie). Oh and yes, I almost forgot: A pet-bird also ends up in a toaster-oven. Haha. All the rest is boring, bad and silly crap. But since it was a made-for-TV thing from the late 80's, I'll try to be generous in my final rating.Aside from elderly ladies who have done nothing else with their lives other than being a housewife (and I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that, okay?), I can not recommend this movie to anybody. THE EVIL ESCAPES simply is the worst (and most un-eventful) movie of the whole series (at least in book). You want to know what I thought was the best one? Guess what…? It's the re-make (from the original) made in 2005. And the one I had the most fun with? Probably part 2 THE POSSESSION (very loosely based on the real Defeo murders). That one goes so much over-the-top and then suddenly turns into a shameless EXORCIST rip-off. Recommended for those facts alone even.

~Spoiler~ Amityville IV: The Evil Escapes is the point where the sequels get downright ridiculous. If you've seen the horrendous Amityville 3-D, that statement should not come as a shock. Original Amityville scribe, Sandor Stern, has his crack at the series in this TV movie which he wrote and directed. So the blame lies with him, entirely. In this entry a group of priests attempt an exorcism at 112 Ocean Avenue. Things do not quite go as planned as the evil in the house escapes into a lamp that was designed by a retard. It is then bought at a yard sale and the evil inhabits another house from there. That's right, the antagonist is a haunted floor lamp! Wrap your head around that. So the iconic house is taken out of the picture so to speak. Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't the Amityville movies revolve around the creepiness of that house? It was a mistake to replace the house with a lamp, but then again how many movies can you make about different people moving into the same haunted house? Don't answer that. And don't bother with this movie.