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Amityville 3-D by Richard Fleischer
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DVD detailsActor: Candy Clark, John Beal, Robert Joy, Tess Harper, Tony Roberts Director: Richard Fleischer Brand: Sony DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language) Format: 3D, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 105 minutes DVD Release Date: 2005-04-05 Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of Amityville 3-DDVD Review: Amityville III: The Demon (aka Amityville 3-D) (1983) Summary: 3 Stars
In 1983, AMITYVILLE III: THE DEMON (aka AMITYVILLE 3-D) came our way as the third rendevous in the whole AMITYVILLE franchise. Now, the first two films were based on the actual events of the Amityville murders. This film is, indeed, a sequel, but the events that go on in this film, are ficticious. This film was not as good as the first two, but I still enjoyed this film to a rather good extent, but I wish it had been more terrifyingly scary, as the first two had been.
Ignoring the house's sinister evil past, JOHN BAXTER (played by Tony Roberts) unwittingly buys the Amityville house on 112 Ocean Ave., after being divorced from his b*tch of a wife, NANCY (played by Tess Harper). John has bought this house for the solitude he needs in order to write his first novel. John also has another profession, dealing with supernatural investigation. His partner in that business is MELANIE (played by Candy Clark). One afternoon, Melanie heads over to the house to meet John there, but she has an encounter with the house's evil, where she runs out of the house, after John arrives. He talks to her about it, but he can get out of her is that she knows there's something in that house that is pure evil.
John's beautiful daughter, SUSAN (played by Lori Loughlin), and her friend, LISA (played by a young Meg Ryan), go into the house and look around, where Lisa tells Susan about the DeFeo's, who murdered by their oldest son, Ronald. They head into the basement, and find a well, where the evil is contained. As they look at the well, while talking about the murders, they begin hearing footsteps right above them and over to the basement stairs. The footsteps belong to John. The girls are relieved.
That night, Melanie leaves the house and heads on home, but on her way, Melanie is locked in her car, where she suddenly catches on fire, and burns to death. Coincidentally, the man who sold John the house, had also been killed, but a sworm of flies. Seems as though, whoever comes in contact with John and the house, ends up with a brutal demise.
The next afternoon, Susan, Lisa, and their friends, head over to the house. They hold a seance, where they ask if there is anybody in danger. The cup moves towards "Yes". They ask who it is that is in danger. The cup begins to spell out Susan's name. The drop the seance and head out into a boat (since the house is by a river). Nancy arrives at the house, knowing Susan is there. As she enters the hosue, Susan comes into the house, soaked from head to toe. Nancy tries to get Susan's attention, but Susan will not answer. She only turns to her mother once, smiles, and then heads up to her room. She tries to get Susan to unlock the door, be she won't open the door. At that moment, John drives up with a couple bags of groceries. He finds Lisa and her friends pulling someone out of the water. He runs over and finds that is...Susan being pulled out of the water. Susan had mysteriously fallen out of the boat and into the water and drowned. What Nancy saw was Susan's ghost, which is now being taken over by the house's evil. Nancy refuses to believe all this, which is her reason for not going to her own daughter's funeral.
John knows something is in the house. He has his team of supernatural investigators come to the house and set up. The team is lead by ELLIOT WEST (played by Robert Joy). They find that the evil is in the well, located in the basement. Nancy is in Susan's room, where she hears Susan's voice, where a blue figure appears, and leads Nancy down into the basement. The evil comes out and pretty much kills off everybody in the house, except for John and Nancy, who escape the house, safely, where the house then explodes.
This was not the best and scariest installment to the whole series, but there are five other films to be included in this whol franchise. I won't lie to you, this film was not that great, but it certainly was not bad, either. You should definitely check it out.
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Description of Amityville 3-DThe home of unspeakable evil is back to torment all who cross its threshold, as Dino De Laurentiis and legendary director Richard Fleischer (Soylent Green) present "a horror picture of considerable class and polish" (Los Angeles Times)! Packed with bone-chilling special effects, this third rendezvous with terror in Amityville stars Tony Roberts, Tess Harper, Robert Joy, Candy Clark and Meg Ryan. To debunk the Amityville house's infamous reputation and take advantage of a rock-bottom asking price, skeptical journalist John Baxter (Roberts) buys the place and settles in to write his first novel. But as soon as the ink on the deed has dried, people who have come into contact with him Â? and the house Â? begin to meet with a shocking fate. Is it coincidenceÂ...or is this house really the gateway to hell?
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