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Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

utgard14 Magazine writer John Baxter (Tony Roberts) and his partner Melanie (Candy Clark) expose a fake psychic racket operating in the Amityville house. Being recently divorced and needing a new house, John decides to buy the place. He gets a good deal in exchange for keeping the real estate agent, who knew about fake psychics, out of the story. John is a disbeliever and skeptic of supernatural phenomenon so he's not worried about the house's history. Once he moves in, of course, strange things start happening. Amityville 3-D has a bad reputation and most of it is deserved. The plot is tiresome and the scares are often laughable. Still, I can't help but enjoy it on some guilty pleasure level. Tony Roberts is a stiff lead. He reminds me of a less charismatic Ron Perlman. Yet there's something fascinating about watching this guy work. Maybe it's the hair. Or maybe it's that he clearly believes he is above the material. Lori Loughlin makes her film debut as his daughter. She doesn't get a lot to do but she's good enough so that you wouldn't automatically assume this was her first movie. Meg Ryan (!) plays her friend in one of Meg's early film roles. I was a little worried after Amityville II that we'd get some inappropriate sexual action between Tony Roberts and Meg Ryan or, worse yet, Roberts and Lori Loughlin. But thankfully nobody has sex with Tony Roberts. The often awful Candy Clark rounds out the main cast. She's up to her usual scenery chewing so everybody grab a seat. The best performances would come from Tess Harper as the ex-wife and Robert Joy as a paranormal investigator.Perhaps the most amusing change to the Amityville series here comes from the fact the "ghosts" can attack someone even if they are miles away from the house. It's silly but allows for some enjoyable shock scenes. Look, this isn't a great movie. It isn't even a good one, really. But it still entertains in a so-bad-it's-good way. If you're looking for something like that, awesome! Here you go. But if you want something you can seriously be scared by, look elsewhere.

AaronCapenBanner Third film in the series does away with any "real life" pretense but continues the series as a skeptical reporter(played by Tony Roberts) buys the infamous house to disprove the supernatural rumors(big mistake!) His ex-wife and daughter also move in, as the demonic activity in the home is now located in a well(not a red room?) in the basement. When a team of paranormal researchers set up shop in the climax, all hell really will break loose in explosive fashion...Well directed(by Richard Fleisher) film does create some moodiness and atmosphere early on(with an amusing prologue involving a fake séance) but ultimately self-destructs with over-the-top melodramatics that create more laughter than fright. Still, it does have a memorable end...pity it was disregarded later! Falls somewhere between the first two films, and originally presented in 3-D.

cal reid A reporter moves into the haunted house and is tormented by the evil within. Boring and stupid , this film might as well have been not made as nothing really happens apart from one or two supernatural occurrences but anyone with half a braincell would predict what would happen in them and this makes the result ineffective and not scary in the least. The only exciting part comes at the very end where a demon pops up out of a well in the basement ( discovered in the first film ) and for some absurd reason leads the house to explode this part is well pulled off but last about a minute and doesn't make up for the garbage that makes up most of the film. Not worth buying or watching.

atinder I Will start of with the plot.Skeptical journalist John Baxter and photographer Melanieexpose a fraudulent medium who is operating in the infamous Amityville haunted house. Then John surprises Melanie by deciding to buy the house and live in it. John's estranged wife, Nancy is also surprised, then disturbed, when John encourages their daughter, Susan , to visit. The house attacks visitors with horrors that include insects and extreme cold and heat. Eventually, parapsychologist Eliot West comes to investigate.I remember seeing this movie for the first time, few years ago. there was only one scene that always stood out to me, it was scene where mother see her daughter go to her room, unaware that she had just drowned, this was only scene I could remember.I just re-watch this movie about week or so ago, I did seem to like it a lot better then the first time around, this time I could tell which part were for the 3D effect even in 2D, next time I will see this movie in 3D.First movie was okay, a tad over-hyped and the second was really good, which I think is very underrated,This movie wss really dull, this movie had nothing going for it, there no scary or creepy moment in this.it just felt flat from start to the end, like there no real story in it.it did pick up near the end with the explosions, which were really well done, those were okay scenes and the was really enjoyed watching.The acting was really good as well, from the whole cast.I will need to see this movie in 3D next time, without the 3D effect I am going to give this a 4 out of 10