A lot of fun.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

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...

Amityville: The Evil Escapes (1989) is less a demonic possession movie and more an electrical appliance and deadly household accident horror movie along the lines of Maximum Overdrive (1986) and movies later in the '90s such as The Mangler (1995) -- Stephen King appliance horror movies; and, also note the Children of the Corn (more King) references with the little blond girl drawing violent crayon art. It's almost like it's a warning movie for single mothers who read Stephen King novels: FEAR the INCURABLE tetanus and the DEADLY garbage disposal. ESCAPE the STRANGLING electrical cord in the attic or the OXYGEN DEPRIVING, SEWAGE SPEWING water pipes in the basement before it's too late! BEWARE the impenetrable BLAMING GLARE of your grandmother, also a single woman, as she struggles with -- BRATTY CHILDREN! All of these things can be avoided with proper household disaster prevention tactics -- such as: 1. NOT running your finger along the edge of sharp metallic objects. 2. NOT installing a garbage disposal on/off switch UPSIDE DOWN! 3. Not hoarding heavy appliances with long electrical cords, but if you do, secure any loose cords. 4. Don't lay directly underneath the end of a pipe you're loosening up, especially if you know there's some type of heavy disgusting sewage running through those pipes. Or at least give yourself a little wiggle room even if you become pinned. 5. Get your messed up catatonic daughter with PTSD and daddy issues PROFESSIONAL HELP from the full spectrum of psychiatry, therapy and behavioral science. You don't just listen to some Freudian quack and his pseudo-scientific responses; you seek second, third, and fourth opinions on any serious mental health diagnosis, especially if therapy/medication doesn't provide results. There's a range of decent to very good acting, as well. Not nearly as bad as some other movies, and happily campy as a consolation prize from time to time. One of the more deliciously twisted scenes depicts a child and a chainsaw that comes alive in his hands! Grandma/mom, don't leave that thing laying around even if it's unplugged! Amityville: The Evil Escapes may be derivative of its contemporaries but the leading lady is excellent. Thanks Patty Duke, R.I.P. If you want to see truly bad acting from a leading lady, watch Linda Hamilton in the campier but more classic Children of the Corn (1984). Anyway, good movie when you consider it's actually a household appliance horror movie intended to teach single mothers and grandmothers how to raise healthy children. I give this movie 7 bratty children being watched by 1 nanny, 1 mama, a grandma, and 1 ex- bowling champ with only 1 hand. :)

After the outrageous "Amityville 3D", the rest of the films of the franchise wouldn't see a cinema release until the 2005 remake of the original. "The Evil Escapes" would get a TV release, but those after it would go straight to video. Anyhow this entry begins off with a group of priests preparing to enter the Amityville house (even though it did blow up after the third feature) to battle the evil force that dwells within. But the entity manages to escape in to a sinisterly ugly looking lamp and the priest that happened to see it was badly knocked out. Couple weeks have past and the priest has awakened to discover the lamp was sold as a garage sale. Now it's ended up on the other side of the country, dwelling in the home of Mrs Alice Leacok who's newly widowed daughter and her three children have just moved in. Soon enough unusual things begin to happen and the youngest child keeps stating she can see her dead father. This particular sequel has a different take on the Amityville curse, but its outcome is just… bonkers. Making it terrifying for all the wrong reasons. So many stupid things occur; you wonder how everyone keeps a straight-face. Think about it. A haunted lamp. Even if it wasn't haunted. Its just looks ominous… and ugly. We watch how the entity makes the light glow (when its not plugged in?!), attract the flies and then move between the electrical cords (a lump of black goo), as it goes about causing trouble, which often leads to freak accidents and machinery going crazy. Hey we even get some uncontrollable chainsaw action; a melting phone and an insane climax when the family battles the flickering satanic lamp ending off with a payoff which makes you think why it took them this long. A little extreme, but it does the job. These shocks might be nasty, but at the same time quite humorous. Some sequences are just too fun, but they indeed lack the rush. The family at the receiving end of this curse are an irritating bunch. How the youngest child (who's quite a sour-face) becomes possessed just reeks of "Poltergeist". The mother is clueless, while the two dumbfounded teenagers (Zoe Trilling) fair no better. Jane Wyatt is suitably good in her role as Mrs Leacok and then there's Fredric Lehne who plays the priest that persistently comes off second best with the encounters. For a TV production is durably pulled off with some decent location atmosphere (the remote house is on top of a cliff that faces an ocean) and the camera-work fluidly frames the action. The music score can be a little too raucous and uncanny. What can you say, be careful when you decide to drop in at a garage sale."That evil is searching for souls".

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.