Amityville 4

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

Patty Duke plays a woman who must protect her family from the evils of Amityville after a lamp from an estate sale transfers the evil to her home.

Duke carries the film beautifully, giving it her all and treating the material seriously without any winking at the audience and she's the highlight of the film. The haunted house sequences are par for the course for a film like this, but there is one nasty bit involving a garbage disposal that's unexpected for a film that, mostly, plays it too safe.

This one actually has a decent story to it taking the action outside of the Amityville house and putting the evil in an old lamb, which is genuinely creepy. The problem here though is the made-for-TV budget and feel, director Sandor Stern who directed the Canadian classic Pin tries to put in some creepy moments to play with the audience, sadly though the first half is rather slow, and after the first five minutes in the Amityville house it literally takes forever for something to start happening. It's definitely better then part 3 that's for sure, but, there's still no reason for you to go out and look for this thing. If your a prime member though at this time it is available to watch for free.

I know this isnt one of the best Amityville films but i still found it enjoyable. Patty Duke is great as Nancy and the plot outline isnt that bad either! The fx arent upto scratch but dont let that spoil the fun as you get to see a man have his hand cut off by a shredder! Its the old woman Alice that i hate she never stops moaning and doesnt seem to like her daughter and grandkids much!