This movie doesn't deserve any stars. There aren't even any stars in the movie. All the actors are either unknowns (kiss your career goodbye, kiddies) or has-beens (though Patty Duke purportedly said that this movie will revitalize her career... HA!) The special effects are far from special. In point of fact, they're mostly terrible (at one point, a character gets his hand caught in a garbage disposal and from then on he wears a bandage, but when a plumber finds a severed rubber hand under the house we're supposed to believe the boy actually lost his hand... if that were so, wouldn't he have more than just a bandage on his arm? Why wouldn't we notice a small thing like the absence of a HAND at the end of his arm? Were the filmmakers so hard up for money that a rubber hand from WalMart was all the special effects they could afford for this picture?) All these quibbles aside, the special effects (or lack thereof) aren't the only problem with the movie; the plot is terrible as well.

The back story of this movie makes no sense. So let me try to get this right. The Amityville house is so evil that even a lamp from the house is enough to cause evil, ghostly things to happen to an unsuspecting family? Because that's the story here; in the opening sequence for this film, a roving gang of Priests try to exorcise the demons from the evil, cursed Amityville house, and the demons flee in terror from the Priests and possess the objects in the house, like a lamp, which the church then intelligently sells in a yard sale instead of destroying them like a smart person would do. Way to go. But wait, I have a question.

But that's what they did, these filmmakers. They showed the lamp being sold, and then a mother and her children moving in with their grandmother at the house where the evil light fixture dwells, and then craziness ensues. The daughter from the family starts acting particularly evil (allowing the filmmakers to rip off some scenes from the abysmal 80s horror flick "Cathy's Curse," and trust me, that's the LAST movie you want to glean ideas from). The movie also attempts to gank ideas from the other Amityville movies, such as showing the unhelpful priest getting burned by a phone when he finally tries to warn the family, but there is nothing scary about these scenes when they appear in a terrible movie. The filmmakers don't seem to realize that apart from surrounding elements like a good plot, good acting, good music, and audience interest, cool ideas and cool scenes just fall flat (especially if you've seen one of the movies from which the filmmakers stole these scenes, which you probably have if you're enough of an Amityville Horror fan to try and watch this terrible little movie). This movie just plain sucks and is a waste of time even for fans of the Amityville movies. Even the abysmal Amityville: Dollhouse is better than this dreck.

People may protest that this is a made for TV movie and thus not subject to the same rules that govern other horror movies, but I've seen plenty of good made for television horror films, and even the mediocre ones (like "The Omen 4") don't sink to the horrid level scraped by this film. In short, try to avoid this movie at all costs unless you're a REALLY anal completist who must watch every Amityville Horror movie, or you have a bunch of friends with you to help guard your sanity and mock the movie along with you.