"A dozen years ago evil was a concept in my mind...Amityville has
changed this concept to reality"
We open the fourth installment with a group of clergymen entering the Amityville house, with the aim of banishing the resident evil spirit for once and for all. One of the priests comes face to face with an odd looking standing lamp, through which we see the a facial image of the evil spirit, albeit briefly, before Father Kibler is knocked unconscious by it. A yard sale of all of the Amityville furniture is conducted, and with the sale of the lamp to two old women comes the eventual cleanliness of the house – the spirit has been banished and the story is over....or is it???
The lamp is sent to Helen's sister in California, and with it goes the evil spirit that has tormented the house in Amityville for so long. At its new place of residence lives old spinster Alice Leacock, who has recently had to open up her home to her daughter Nancy, and her children Brian, Amanda and Jessica, following the death of Nancy's husband. We know that evil is afoot when the lamp begins to turn itself on at night, yet the bizzare death of the pet bird and an out of control chainsaw are just two of the weird things that begin to happen, causing the family to continuously fall out and apportion blame. The one constant is the odd behaviour of the youngest child, Jessica, who sits and talks to the lamp, believing it to be her dead father.
Meanwhile Father Kibler recovers from his 'blackout' and knows that the evil is still alive, and upon discovering the lamp has been sold he begins to follow the path that will eventually lead him to the Leacock house. Kibler knows that the family is in danger, yet the spirit knows that the priest is on his way, and the family, well they struggle to make sense of all that is going on around them, even with various people dying. Can the spirit continue to terrorize and will it find its way back to Amityville??? Whilst this may have been a brave move in terms of moving the Amityville evil away from the Amityville house, I feel that it just not do the Amityville stories justice...we need the spirit in the original house!! Nevertheless as an Amityville fan it still has to be watched.
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| Directed by | Sandor Stern |
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| Produced by | |
| Written by | John G Jones Sandor Stern |
| Starring | Patty Duke Jane Wyatt Lou Hancock Frederic Lehne Brandy Gold |
| Distributed by | |
| Release date(s) | 1989 |
| Running time | 95 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget | Not known |