The Amityville Curse (1990)
- Cody Iden
- Oct 19, 2021
- 2 min read
Release Date - June 6, 1990
Synopsis:
A group of people purchase a fixer upper to flip in Amityville only to learn that a priest was murdered in a nearby church and his belongings were stored in the basement of the former rectory which happens to be the home they've purchased.
Directed by - Tom Berry
Written by - Michael Krueger, Doug Olson and Norvell Rose
Produced by - Franco Battista
Cinematography - Rodney Gibbons
Music by - Milan Kymlicka
Distribution Company - Vidmark Entertainment
Cast:
Kim Coates - Frank
Dawna Wightman - Debbie
Helen Hughes - Mrs. Moriarty
David Stein - Marvin
Introducing:
Anthony Dean Rubeš - Bill
Cassandra Gava - Abigail
Special Appearance by:
Jan Rubeš - Priest
Run Time - 1 hr. 31 min. Rated - R
Budget - $750,000 Gross - Unknown
Review:
Barely connected to the previous Amityville films, with only brief allusions to the town's supernatural history and not even featuring the famous 112 Ocean Avenue residence, this film instead features an entirely different house that was formerly a rectory and now houses the belongings of a priest who was murdered 12 years prior to the bulk of this film. The story is pretty uninteresting and you have to wonder why Amityville was even tacked onto the title as this really has very little to do with those films. It is loosely based on yet another Amityville novel, but beyond that it really has no ties to the first 4 films. The cast is not impressive and some of them are just dull and uninteresting, Kim Coates may be recognizable to some as he later appeared in stuff like Waterworld (1995), Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010) and on Sons of Anarchy (2008-2014). Also appearing briefly is opera singer turned actor Jan Rubeš as the Priest who is murdered in the opening, Rubeš had a lengthy career as an opera singer before he switched over to acting from around 1980 onward. The other cast members aren't really well known and are a mixed bag, though Helen Hughes as the eccentric Mrs. Moriarty is definitely memorable. The cinematography, special effects and score are all pretty poor and uninteresting and overall the director doesn't manage to pull anything interesting together. The fact that this film has all but disappeared is really no surprise as this is definitely a movie you can skip.
My Score: 48
Plot - 5 Cinematography - 5
Attraction - 5 Editing & Special Effects - 5
Theme - 4 Sound & Music - 5
Acting - 5 Directing - 4
Dialogue - 5 Enjoyability – 5
Trivia:
Loosely based on the book The Amityville Curse by Hans Holzer.
Film debut of actress Dawna Wightman.
Despite receiving an Introducing credit, this was not the first film appearance by Anthony Dean Rubeš, who was the son of Jan Rubeš who plays the Priest in this film.
Availability:
Watched on October 19, 2021
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