darkenchantment-1 One of the best of the amityville films...its just a shame that its not actually set in amityville...but the movie does start off in the house which I loved, I just wish it stayed there.the house is finally blessed and all the furniture is sold off, the evil enters the furniture and off it goes to a new location booooooothe evil is the lamp, and its a very creepy looking lamp too, its a low budget horror but its done really well...

Leofwine_draca AMITYVILLE IV: THE EVIL ESCAPES is the first of the ultra-cheesy Amityville sequels with increasingly spurious connections to the first films in the series. This one's a TV movie which doesn't help, as the production values are noticeably lacking compared to the earlier films. The storyline involves the Amityville curse being transferred into a creepy old lamp, which is subsequently purchased as a gift for an unsuspecting family who begin to suffer strange hauntings as a result.This is a rather dull film that stretches out for long moments of boredom and occasionally intersperses them with silliness. It's also incredibly cheesy and not the least bit scary, so it's a film to watch if you've got a sense of humour. Patty Duke as the put-upon mother is the only actor here who gives anything approaching a legitimate performance. Scenes involving flies and priests feel like weak retreads of what has come earlier and are largely without merit.The film is better when it works in new supernatural events (even if they are ridiculous). THE EVIL ESCAPES has the best garbage disposal scene since ROLLING THUNDER, although that moment is eclipsed by a later set-piece involving a plumber and a blocked pipe that has to be seen to be believed. The cheesy highlight involves the woman's son (played by a dwarf actor) having an encounter with a possessed chainsaw in the basement; a moment that truly has to be seen to be believed. Stuff with a creepy blonde possessed girl is too obviously indebted to POLTERGEIST and the ending is routine, although that last freeze frame is pretty funny.

witchcraftpentagrams Warning, This Comment Contains Spoilers For 2 Other Movies. I have seen all of the Amityville movies and i say this one tops the lot in the most entertaining column. I am very surprised that this movie was based on a book and came out on TV. Lots of interesting features have been added into this movie. For example, the evil escapes through an ugly looking lamp from the power cord and goes into a different house the same way but in reverse. Now the Food Remains Grinder scene is one of the best scenes i have ever seen. It is very good that they show the boys hand getting ground up and spurting blood on everyone instead of having a stupid camera angle that makes everybody get upset. It is also good that it actually ground up his hand. I have seen the grinder scenes in final destination 2 and halloween h2o and the grinding never happened. Very entertaining ending with lots of character commotion but a very ugly cast i must say. All the straight-to-video Amityville films are very rare over here in Australia and this one is the second most rare, so if you see this, hire it or buy it as soon as you can.

Backlash007 ~Spoiler~ Amityville IV: The Evil Escapes is the point where the sequels get downright ridiculous. If you've seen the horrendous Amityville 3-D, that statement should not come as a shock. Original Amityville scribe, Sandor Stern, has his crack at the series in this TV movie which he wrote and directed. So the blame lies with him, entirely. In this entry a group of priests attempt an exorcism at 112 Ocean Avenue. Things do not quite go as planned as the evil in the house escapes into a lamp that was designed by a retard. It is then bought at a yard sale and the evil inhabits another house from there. That's right, the antagonist is a haunted floor lamp! Wrap your head around that. So the iconic house is taken out of the picture so to speak. Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't the Amityville movies revolve around the creepiness of that house? It was a mistake to replace the house with a lamp, but then again how many movies can you make about different people moving into the same haunted house? Don't answer that. And don't bother with this movie.