Amityville Horror: The Evil Escapes

I wasn't expecting much from this film, however it turned out to be decently entertaining considering it's the fourth Amytville sequel. The plot concerns a possessed lamp removed from the original Amytville house, that is now in a new house causing mayhem. The acting is decent and the story isn't too boring. Sadly it lacked gore, but then so did a lot of films in the late 80's.

Whenever I see a lamp now I always think of this film, whether that's a good thing or not I don't know. If you can find a cheap copy then it may be worth a watch, however I wouldn't go out of your way to find it as it's not the best around.

A number of priest, go to this house and get the evil force out of the house, one of the priest get hurts and see that evil force as got into the lamp.

Now that stuff of the house, is now being for sale and that includes the Lamp that as evil force in it.

two women then end up buying the lamp, so she send it to her sister for her birthday.

The lamp get to her sister, Alice Leacock house and on that same day Alice Leacock Alice's daughter, Nancy Evans and her 3 kids Amanda, Brian and Jessica come to stay and i can not wait to open the package.

Soon odd thing start to happen, alice tells Nacy thinks this is all kids doing, Nacy is also worried about Jessica is talking to Lamp, thinking she talking her dad, who passed away before.

Meanwhile the priest is out of hospital and trying to track down the lamp and but time is running out fast, will it make in time to save the family before evil force takeover yet another house.

This is movie is really good, much better then the third, this movie can a get a bit silly at times but it works well with the rest of the movie, movie never gets boring, there is always something to keep you entertained.

One of the better movies in the series, I will give this movie 6 out of 10

From everything I'd read here and elsewhere, I'd expected Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes to be a horrid, made-for-TV movie that looked like it. I found a copy on the internet and indulged it.

Hey, not bad.

The sheer horror of The Possession and the slick suspense of 3-D isn't really there... I guess it's more like the first movie, but in a different house. You see, the Amityville house is now vacant (presumably after the people from the first movie left it with something of an urgency) and everything in it goes up for a yard sale. A lamp gets sold to an old lady who then sends it to her sister (I think) in California. Wouldn't you know, this lamp has the DEVIL inside.

Sounds like a tacky plot device to teleport the Amityville evil to another house, but it actually kind of works. Not on the scale of the first one (OK, what's scarier - a house built on Satanic witch ground with dead bodies buried there of Satanists that's perpetually haunted, or just a normal house with an EVIL lamp?), but not too far from it. You'd have to see it to understand. As far as effects, they're there. The flies from the first movie are back, flies flies everywhere (even the black tar too). Also scary demon imagery here and there, neat lighting effects, etc.. It holds up well.

Strange, though, that the movie is packaged sternly as "Amityville 4," yet totally disregards the ending of Amityville 3-D, where the Amityville house was completely destroyed and burnt to cinders. In the beginning of Amityville 4, a gang of priests do gangbusters in the house, which is mysteriously still standing. Though ... if you look at Amityville 3-D's credits on the DVD from MGM, it says "THIS MOVIE IS NOT A SEQUEL TO THE AMITYVILLE HORROR OR AMITYVILLE II: THE POSSESSION"... but yet Amityville: The Evil Escapes gets a "4"? What was 3 then, if not 3-D? Ah well, things to muse...

Note: This entry also began the tradition in the series of different items from the Amityville house being brought to other houses to haunt them. i.e., the clock in Amityville 1992, the doll house in Amityville: doll house, etc.

A fairly decent sequel without much connection to the original (tone or story-wise). Full of haunted house cliches despite it seeming unique somehow...perhaps thanks to the strength of the mostly female cast. It's middle of the road...not offensive, only mildly entertaining.

This one actually has a decent story to it taking the action outside of the Amityville house and putting the evil in an old lamb, which is genuinely creepy. The problem here though is the made-for-TV budget and feel, director Sandor Stern who directed the Canadian classic Pin tries to put in some creepy moments to play with the audience, sadly though the first half is rather slow, and after the first five minutes in the Amityville house it literally takes forever for something to start happening. It's definitely better then part 3 that's for sure, but, there's still no reason for you to go out and look for this thing. If your a prime member though at this time it is available to watch for free.