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Fresh and Exciting

Excellent but underrated film

A Masterpiece!

Blistering performances.

If you enjoyed The Exorcist and the original Amityville Horror film then you might get a kick out of Amityville 2: The Possession. This movie is based on the story of Ronald DeFeo Jr., the man that killed his family in real life - he was tried and convicted of 2nd Degree Murder.The original Amityville Horror film is based on the real story of George and Kathy Lutz who left the home 28 days after of living there - claiming it was haunted.It is safe to say that Amityville 2 is a prequel to Amityville Horror. Both films are worth watching if you like haunted houses and demon possession stories.8/10

This movie is ably acted and the scenery is iconic, yet still this movie can't help but fall on its face. A precursor to the original Amityville Horror, Amityville II takes the franchise in a new direction by telling an evil house story rather than a haunted one. It tells of the Montelli family and the ensuing possession of their eldest son resulting in their murder. Then there is an hour left to fill before the credits roll.This is the ultimate sin of Amityville II, they start to hot then don't have anything to fill time. It takes five minutes to see the first sign the house is evil. Without any build up, the water turns to blood and the mother is being stalked by the specter. From there on, the movie just floors the gas pedal. It could be understandable since this is a prequel, but it doesn't really give you much time to process what is going on. Had they taken the time to slow down and built to just what the evil was, it would have done the rest of the plot a better service.Then the family is killed and the break neck pace runs headlong into a wall. The priest who had tried to help them earlier has to try to help the surviving son now about to be tried by sequestering an exorcism. No longer is the movie an evil house story and has changed gears into a possession movie. Only, its all the stuff that's not that interesting about a possession. It delves into the politics of the Catholic church and slows the movie to a crawl in doing it. Why this couldn't have started earlier when there was more going on I can't for the life of me figure out.The conclusion is ripped right out of the Exorcist almost verbatim. After the priest failed to get the possessed boy into a church, I don't know why he thought it would be a good idea to walk him through the front doors unbound,h confronts him at the Amityville house and tries to exorcise him there. The effects are pretty good, bleeding walls and the boy's head splitting open to revel his demon face, looks like a CHUD, are done well. But the demon proves too strong and so the priest takes the demon unto himself. It took him roughly six minutes to come to this conclusion however, the exorcism is too short and kind of undermines the seriousness of the ordeal.

Wow, what a surprise! I'll be honest, I went into Amityville II with expectations so low they were through the floorboards and down the core of the Earth. To my shock not only is it a very well done film but it is probably one of the best haunted house movies I have ever seen. There is so much to admire about this sequel/prequel.First of all I need to get the inconsistencies out of the way. Since this is a prequel it should logically take place in 1974, but it's clearly the 80s. The Defeos are not named as such but instead called the Montellis (why exactly is not clear but I assume it is so Ronald Defeo didn't sue, though he did claim that demons made him murder his family). The interior of the house looks very different, especially the basement. The troubled teenage son doesn't look anything George Lutz either (he actually looks like a cross between Mark Wahlberg and Dennis Quaid), which was a big deal in the first film, but since that plot line made no sense and went nowhere I can forgive that. I also don't mind any of the other retconning that Amityville II does since it overrides the 1979 bore.When the Montellis move into 112 Ocean Avenue (or High Hopes as it ironically called, to this day, in real life) they immediately begin to experience supernatural phenomena (although the Defeos lived there for about a decade before the massacre) and call in a heroic priest (played by General Franklin Kirby himself) to save the day. General Kirby postpones the blessing when he witnesses family patriarch Burt Young brutalising the children in that stereotypical, old-fashioned Italian dominant father way. Older siblings Sonny and Patricia push their incestuous relationship all the way while a sinister force haunts around the family and toys with their fragility. The stage is set for a perfect psychic storm and anti-Christ director Damiano Damiani (yeah, for real) delivers absolutely everything that Stuart Rosenberg before him hopelessly failed to.The camera-work, atmosphere, tension, sound design, believable performances, and occasional hysteria make Amityville II the single shining moment in an otherwise pathetic series. Damiani brings a texture of Italian Giallo (exploitation) and knows when to restrain himself and when to simply go nuts. Lalo Shifrin also returns to score this entry with another lush orchestral effort that enhances the spooky atmosphere.I can't imagine this film inspiring anyone as it is part of a laughably awful series and isn't likely to get the respect it deserves, but the tricks, wit, and intelligence that Damiani has up his sleeve will certainly entertain. James Olsen is a strong lead and blows away Rod Steiger's utterly ludicrous ham acting from the first film.You must check it out as it is perfect brain food for horror fans and filmmakers.

This horror prequel depicts the events that lead to the massacre of a family. The movie was based on the actual family who lived in the Amityville house, the DeFeo's, who were all murdered by the oldest son. There are inaccuracies to not only the real events, but to the events depicted in the first movie. I remember being told this movie was "scarier than the first one," but I found myself laughing at most of it. Don't get me wrong, there were still some creepy moments (the mother feeling a presence in the basement, Sonny being attacked by the presence and hearing the voices), but it was mainly made up of bad writing and awkward dialog. Some of the special effects were surprisingly done very well for their time. Jack Magner also did an exceptional job portraying a young man slowly losing his mind to a maleficent force. It was decent, even with the bad dialog, until the last twenty minutes or so. The ending was very weak and fell flat. But overall, I would say to watch it for the good parts I mentioned and then make fun of the rest.