Amityville: Evil Never Dies

This film essentially begins with a woman by the name of "Mrs. Pangborn" (Sheri Lee) presenting a birthday cake to her teenage son and daughter. While she's doing this, her husband "Senator Ty Pangborn" (Dan Mauro) comes downstairs dressed in a clown costume and proceeds to murder all three of them with a shotgun before taking his own life. The scene then shifts to a week later with two young men and a woman breaking into the house and attempting to steal a picture of a clown which was supposedly taken from the original haunted house in Amityville. While trying to do so, however, a clown materializes and murders them all. After that, the scene then shifts once again to a man by the name of "Ben" (Ben Gothier) buying a toy monkey at a small shop and taking it home. But what neither Ben nor his wife "Michelle" (Michelle Muir-Lewis) realize is that this toy monkey was also taken from the same haunted house in Amityville, and it is possessed by an evil spirit which intends to kill both of them. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that the director (Dustin Ferguson) borrowed heavily from his earlier film "Amityville Toybox" produced about a year earlier. To that effect, not only did he feature the same toy monkey, but he also replayed several scenes from that earlier picture as well. Talk about a complete lack of imagination. Yet as dull as the plot turned out to be, the main problem with this movie concerned the extremely poor audio technique. More specifically, at times the audio was so low that it was difficult to hear what the characters were saying. At other times, the background music drowned out the dialogue completely. Not that it really mattered because there really wasn't anything here to arouse that much interest anyway. Be that as it may, although I very seldom give a film the lowest mark possible, I have to say that this particular movie is a rare exception to that rule--it's just that bad.

If you want an hour and 13 minutes of you life gone for good this is the movie for you while it is very fun to make fun of I could not look away would recommend to someone if they were mentally handicapped or looking for a bad movie to watch 10/10 would watch again

This movie made me dumber watching it and it gave me eye cancer

I don't recall seeing any scary clowns in this movie. I think there was one clown right at the beginning that didn't have anything to do with the story, what little there was of it. And that was about it. There was not a clownhouse full of clowns, and it certainly wasn't an Amityville house full of clowns. For that matter, it wasn't even an Amityville house. What in the world is going on here?

Okay ... let's suss this out. The title of the movie is "Amityville Clownhouse." I've got that much. So, to wit ...

1. In a Clownhouse, you would expect a house that is full of clowns. Furthermore, being a movie that is labeled a "Horror" movie, you would expect a house full of murderous clowns with terrifying makeup, similar to the clown on the poster. Right? Well ... wrong. That is not in this movie. There is no clownhouse, and there are no terrifying clowns. Basically, there are NO clowns to speak of.

2. In an Amityville movie, you would expect and Amityville-looking house, buuuuut ... NO! You would be wrong. There is no Amityville house at all. And the house that IS there does not have clowns in it, so not only is it NOT a clownhouse, as previously mentioned, but it is not even an Amityville house, so the title is a big, old misdirection.

In conclusion, I honestly don't know what this is supposed to be, but it isn't what the title says it is by one iota. What I would have named it is ... "Boring, Terribly Directed & Acted Waste of Time." That would have been entirely accurate. Too bad, too, because something really cool could have been made from that title alone. What a shame. What a darn shame. :(

When I sat down to watch the 2017 horror movie "Amityville Clownhouse" (aka "Amityville: Evil Never Dies"), I have to admit that I harbored absolutely zero expectations to the movie, as the countless of horror movies being spewed out with the word "Amityville" in its title are questionable movies at best. But still, since this was a horror movie that I had neither seen nor actually heard about, of course I opted to check it out, given my love of all things horror.

Writers Dustin Ferguson and Joel Richards put together a boring script that only got attention because they opted to cash in on the success of the "Amityville" movie and because the very name is associated with iconic horror. But make no mistake, this movie was not going to become a classic, nor was it a particularly interesting or enjoyable movie to sit through.

Of the entire cast ensemble in the movie, I was only familiar with Mark Patton. And just how they managed to get him to show up in a movie such as this is simply beyond my comprehension. The acting performances in the movie were, for the most parts, fair. I've seen far worse performances in a low budget horror movies, such as this also was.

The audio in the movie was pretty terrible. In some scenes it was normal volume, but then in other scenes it was very low and making it hard or impossible to hear. The was just a very amateurish aspect of movie making and the movie suffered terribly from that.

If you enjoy horror movies, like I do, then do yourself a huge favor and don't waste 74 minutes on this dumpster fire of an attempt at making a horror movie.

The movie's cover/poster was actually the best thing about the ordeal.

My rating of director Dustin Ferguson's 2017 movie "Amityville Clownhouse" lands on a generous one out of ten stars.