The Amityville Horror Every Unlikely Possessed Object In The Movie Franchise

The Amityville Horror: Every Unlikely Possessed Object In The Movie Franchise

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The Amityville Horror movie franchise at one point left the infamous house, instead focusing on everyday objects possessed by The Devil.

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The Amityville Horror Every Unlikely Possessed Object In The Movie Franchise

The Amityville Horror movie franchise at one point left the infamous house, instead focusing on everyday objects possessed by The Devil. When a horror franchise goes on and on, it can get difficult to keep the creative juices flowing through it. After all, how many times do fans want to see Jason Voorhees slaughter teenagers at Camp Crystal Lake? Okay, that’s a bad example, since the answer is as many times as possible. But not all fanbases are that eager to consume the same material over and over, so it becomes time to change things up.

In the case of the Amityville franchise – which if one counts the unofficial indie entries boasts as many films as the Marvel Cinematic Universe – throwing new characters into the same demon-possessed house was growing stale after three films. So when it came time to produce the fourth installment, the decision was made to leave the house with the infamous eye windows behind, at least mostly.

Four of the next five Amityville movies would feature characters getting menaced by the demonic powers of various possessed objects that were once inside the house at 112 Ocean Avenue. Instead of being obviously evil things like a staff with a goat’s head or a ouija board, the possessed objects were normal household items.

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Amityville: Every Unlikely Possessed Object In The Franchise

In 1989’s Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes, which actually aired as a made-for-TV movie on NBC, the object possessed by demonic forces is a lamp. Sure, it’s a weird lamp, but still, it’s a lamp, and kind of hard to be afraid of. Amusingly, the lamp’s mere existence is only possible due to Amityville 4 ignoring the ending of Amityville 3, in which the house on Ocean Avenue was destroyed. The lamp mostly attacks by manipulating other devices that operate using electricity, but eventually just starts doing whatever it wants, which makes little sense.

Skipping 1990’s The Amityville Curse, which deviated from the cursed object formula, next comes Amityville 1992: It’s About Time. That subtitle is a lame pun, as the villain is a demon-possessed clock. Still, this movie is the best of the cursed object sub-series, as the clock is able to mess with time in interesting ways, and the result is just silly enough to be a lot of fun. The next year’s Amityville: A New Generation focuses on a Satanic mirror, which an artist takes back to his apartment after he’s given it by a homeless person, only to realize later that his murderous biological father once owned it. At least this one has recognizable genre stars, such as The Stepfather’s Terry O’Quinn and An American Werewolf in London’s David Naughton.

Finally, the cursed object Amityville movies came to an end with 1996’s Amityville Dollhouse, which as one might imagine, features an evil dollhouse. That sounds like a fun idea, but the actual movie is arguably the worst of the franchise, and is alternately really stupid or excruciatingly boring. Half the scares don’t even involve the dollhouse, as a zombie appears at one point, and there’s even a gateway to Hell in the family fireplace. Hopefully one day another of these movies gets made, preferably about a haunted Alexa.

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