Amityville IV: La fuga del diablo

Completely awful TV-movie sequel which, if nothing else, has the fantastic Aron Whatshisface as the young "Different Strokes-esque" grandson Brian. Not only is he frighteningly pleasant, but he does happen to pick up a chainsaw in the basement and use it to make VROOOOOM-VROOOM noises. Ultimately, the chainsaw turns itself on and Brian's scary cheeks wobble as he tears apart the place only to be halted by the sheer strength of his grandmother (and some other old dear who fell down the stairs - brilliant!) and a huge bit of pipe she grabs from the wall. Possibly one of the best scenes in the history of movies. If only this was the plot of the whole movie and not a brief minute of film.

A fairly decent sequel without much connection to the original (tone or story-wise). Full of haunted house cliches despite it seeming unique somehow...perhaps thanks to the strength of the mostly female cast. It's middle of the road...not offensive, only mildly entertaining.

Patty Duke stars as a recently widowed mother who takes her three children to live with her cold mother (Jane Wyatt) who's just gotten a strange present from her sister - a odd antique lamp that she got at a yard sale. And guess where it came from? That's right - the Amityville house. In the blink of an eye, this lamp has spread it's evil all throughout the house, making tea kettles piping hot, pushing black sludge through the water faucets, and lopping off teenage boy's hands in the garbage disposal. Even worse, the evil spirits are hellbent on possessing the youngest child in the family. Only a priest who was there at the Amityville house can save the family, but will he make it on time.

While the premise of The Evil Escapes is the very definition of ludicrous, it doesn't start out that bad. Duke's performance and her character are better defined that most characters in films of this ilk and you do feel for her. She's a single mother with no education who's doing the best she can and she's easy to relate to. In fact, Duke might give the film much more than it's worth. On the other hand, Jane Wyatt seems to be sleepwalking through most of her performance.

The Evil Escapes might do a better than average job of giving its character realistic, real world drama, it fails at the horror scenes and, since this is a horror film, that's unexcusable. It's TV movie restrictions don't help, but I can promise you that there are more nail biting episodes of Goosebumps out there.

The Evil Escapes might not be quite as bad as its reputation would have you believe, but it also feels like it pulls to many punches which keeps any sort of tension from every developing.

A number of priest, go to this house and get the evil force out of the house, one of the priest get hurts and see that evil force as got into the lamp.

Now that stuff of the house, is now being for sale and that includes the Lamp that as evil force in it.

two women then end up buying the lamp, so she send it to her sister for her birthday.

The lamp get to her sister, Alice Leacock house and on that same day Alice Leacock Alice's daughter, Nancy Evans and her 3 kids Amanda, Brian and Jessica come to stay and i can not wait to open the package.

Soon odd thing start to happen, alice tells Nacy thinks this is all kids doing, Nacy is also worried about Jessica is talking to Lamp, thinking she talking her dad, who passed away before.

Meanwhile the priest is out of hospital and trying to track down the lamp and but time is running out fast, will it make in time to save the family before evil force takeover yet another house.

This is movie is really good, much better then the third, this movie can a get a bit silly at times but it works well with the rest of the movie, movie never gets boring, there is always something to keep you entertained.

One of the better movies in the series, I will give this movie 6 out of 10

I wasn't expecting much from this film, however it turned out to be decently entertaining considering it's the fourth Amytville sequel. The plot concerns a possessed lamp removed from the original Amytville house, that is now in a new house causing mayhem. The acting is decent and the story isn't too boring. Sadly it lacked gore, but then so did a lot of films in the late 80's.

Whenever I see a lamp now I always think of this film, whether that's a good thing or not I don't know. If you can find a cheap copy then it may be worth a watch, however I wouldn't go out of your way to find it as it's not the best around.