Several years after an unfortunate accident, a couple determined to move on with their lives finds that the increase of hostility on his end comes from an evil entity housed inside a cursed antique toy monkey that was initial bought at the original Amityville house and must find a way to break its influence over him.
This was a rather solid and enjoyable genre effort. Among the more enjoyable features here is the rather enjoyable setup that brings trouble to the couple. After the initial attacks at the old house and how they inadvertently buy the cursed monkey toy, the resulting scenes of them coming under strange occurrences are a great touch to add some suspense to things. From his sudden nightmares and cold behavior to her inability to get the psychic flashes out of her mind of the old house, the setup to what's going on is a perfectly serviceable setup that has a nice connection built up here with the toy's influence on their lives. As well, there's the fun that comes from the supernatural exploits present. With the strong opening of the father in clown-makeup blowing away the family during the birthday party giving a great idea of what's in store here, The rest of the scenes are quite fun, including the spirits killing the lookers in somewhat chilling and graphic encounters, the flashing-red lit sequences of him under the influence killing the prostitute and later beating on his wife or a later ambush on a visiting neighbor. A fine finale detailing the battle with the creatures is somewhat brief but still works nicely with the bizarre flash images of the demons and the deranged images at play during the scene. The other great factor here is a nice bit of building a psychological change that begins affecting him as the film attempts the idea of him being influenced into acting out-of-character, much like the characters from the other entries. While it seems illogical to wait as long as possible without doing anything, especially with how he acts during these scenes of berating her and even getting physical, there's some fun work here involving these scenes furthering the possessed doll nicely. The few scenes where it suffers from its low-budget limitations including some padding and a few glimpses of the limiting effects do bring this down somewhat, but not enough.
Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence, and Brief Nudity.
