Amityville 4. I've seen some of these, I don't remember which ones. I watched maybe two of them a few years ago in what was I guess a mini Amityville marathon. This one, I didn't see so this doesn't count as a rewatch or anything. At this point in the series, it had already gone gimmicky, since part 3 was the 3D one. It was never a popular series anyways, pretty much for die hard fans only. Haunted house movies aren't that interesting, it's one of those life facts.
So for the big #4, they pulled out all the stops by....making it be a TV movie. Yeah, they were admitting this was in the fucking barrel, sitting on the bottom of it, by putting this shit show on TV only, and also having the main villain presence be a lamp. Yes, you heard that, an evil lamp was the best they could come up with I guess, and it's you know, not that cool? How could it be, amiright?
Generic movie family #389 or whatever we're up to at this point is living in bliss until they receive an evil looking lamp as a joke gift from their grandmother's friend. The lamp is clearly evil, because soon as it arrives the daughter character Jessica starts seeing visions of her dead father. Soon enough, bad shit starts happening in the house, in form of people getting injured and killed.
It's your average C grade build in a made for TV movie. There is exactly one project that was NOT made for TV in the entire filmography of director Sandor Stern. That would be the 80's flick Pin which I have been wanting to see for a while, and I still will. It's just funny (to me) that he was only in the realm of TV his entire IMDb life. Without a project for over 15 years, it's clear that his mark (on TV) has been made, and his time is over.
The flick plays out like the tired 4th installment that was made for TV that it is, that's why I dwell so much on these little facts I've been spouting out. The highlights are the idiotic people getting hurt, it's definitely too light on the kills for it to be fun though. Most of the time, you're watching little girl Jessica being a brat, the mother character getting frustrated with everyday life, and the grandma character watching her life turn to shit. All that is kind of fun in a way, but it doesn't keep us gorehounds or even those looking for a sub-par demon movie happy.
So the evil escapes in the form of a lamp? And the evil's big plan is to kill off this family, but will apparently be stopped by destruction of said lamp? Sorry, but that's just kind of weak. Also, why the fuck is the evil in the form of a lamp anyway? I was reminded a bit of the evil tree from that one short in that horror serial I saw, but other than that brief moment of reflection, this was just boring. And not only because I was in a bad mood. I give it a 1.5 star rating I guess.
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