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Critics Consensus: A gimmicky Amityville retread with insufferable characters.
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Critic Consensus: A gimmicky Amityville retread with insufferable characters.
All Critics (20) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (19) | DVD (3)
There is hardly anything original about the picture.
To pad things out characters argue over story-lines from previous Amityville movies, while for 3-D purposes, wasps, furniture and minor players are hurled in our direction at varying intervals.
The cast is good, but the characters are idiots.
A creepy, claustrophobic atmosphere.
No longer a haunted house movie at all, but simply a collection of crummy shock scenes with absolutely no shock.
a quickie cash-in on both the early '80s revitalized 3-D craze and the success of the previous two Amityville films
It so utterly fails to articulate its threat that the scary stuff presumably facilitated by everyone's moronic behavior turns into a running joke.
Unlike the first two Amityville titles, this one makes no claim to authenticity, but such honesty doesn't save it from being a terrible movie.
Veteran director Richard Fleischer demonstrates a keen understanding of the potentials of the 3-D gimmick here, but there is little else to recommend this dull retread.
3-D, the stamp of greatness...
Replaces derivation with gimmicks.
...presented in standard 2-D format and does not require special glasses to view. However, I don't see how wearing them can possibly hurt.
Third part in this series is a bad film, and it really starts to shows the cracks in terms of effective storytelling on the parts of the screen writers and director. The idea seemed really good, but the film simply fell flat with no real care to write a truly terrifying film that was memorable and fun. The result is a failed attempt at delivering a haunted house film with any real chills. The film tends to rely too much on the 3D effect to entertain, and it just ends up being annoying and painful to watch. Acting wise, the film still suffers from inconsistencies and there are no standout performances here. The direction fails to evoke any sense of fear and most of the time it is pretty lazy. The ideas for something good were here, but the execution was poor. The film could have been much better than this and it is a shame because the original film, though flawed, was pretty good and fun to watch. As a whole, this third film is forgettable in the long run and adds nothing of note to the series. Luckily this isn't as bad as others that would follow, but it could have been done better. I think that with a few rewrites a, this film could have been a lot better. With a better cast and director as well, Amityville 3D would have worked as a fun, entertaining haunted house picture. The film was simply rushed, and underdeveloped in terms of good storytelling. Without the effects, I think that the film could have worked a bit better and if it relied on atmosphere it would have made it memorable.
Super Reviewer
Well, it's the shortest out of the original three, and it has a young Meg Ryan. One of those is a good thing.
A low point in the Amityville series, this one is below average. It has hardly any good actors, a bad story, it's predictable, and I just didn't like it.
Poorly made Amityville sequel; it just doesn't feel like the house we've all grown to fear. Hollywood greatness has somewhat taken over the low-budget story and made it an effects-driven bore-fest, lessening the scare-factor the other two had. It would've been neato to see this in 3-D. I didn't think Tony Roberts was entirely suitable as the new owner of the Amityville house; he seemed too ordinary and uninteresting. Evil and death seemed to follow characters out of the Amityville house; the sequences I enjoyed were the elevator drop and the car-fire. The movie was originally sub-titled "The Demon" with a big demon claw on the poster. In this film, there is a hell-pit of slime under the basement floor, where the cheesy effect demon emerges. The overall film felt artificial with lack of anything scary.
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