The Amityville Curse
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| The Amityville Curse | |
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| Directed by | Tom Berry |
| Produced by | Tom Berry, A.B. Goldberg, Franco Battista |
| Written by | Hans Holzer (book), Michael Krueger, Doug Olson, Norvell Rose |
| Starring | Kim Coates, Helen Hughes |
| Music by | Milan Kymlicka |
| Cinematography | Rodney Gibbons |
| Editing by | Franco Battista |
| Distributed by | Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment (USA) |
| Release date(s) | 1990 |
| Running time | 91 min (USA) |
| Country |  Canada  USA |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes |
| Followed by | Amityville 1992: It's About Time |
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The Amityville Curse is the fifth installment to the Amityville Horror saga. It was made in 1989 and released to video in May 1990.[1]
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[edit] Plot
Five people spend the night in an abandoned house, the Amityville haunted house, and soon find themselves terrorized by assorted ghosts, venomous insects and ghostly apparitions.
Marvin and Debbie buy the house. They renovate with the help of three friends: Frank, Bill and Abigail. The former housekeeper, Mrs Moriarty, is murdered. A priest had been murdered at the house twelve years earlier when the house was a rectory. The film was loosely based around Hans Holzer's book The Amityville Murder.[2]
[edit] Cast
- Kim Coates as Frank
- Dawna Wightman as Debbie
- Helen Hughes as Mrs. Moriaty
- David Stein as Marvin
- Anthony Dean Rubes as Bill
- Cassandra Gava as Abigail
- Jan Rubes as Priest
- Scott Yaphe as Thin Boy
- Mark Camacho as Krabel
[edit] Production Notes
Even though the setting of the film is supposed to be in the infamous Amityville house, it is not actually 112 Ocean Avenue, the setting for the previous Amityville films. The house used here is a different house dubbed as "the Amityville house".
The reference to the houses' history as a rectory is a possible reference to the Borley Rectory, a haunted house in England that drew comparisons with the Amityville hauntings due to similarities in paranormal activity at both locations.
As of 2007, this is the only movie in the series that has not been released on DVD in the USA.
[edit] References
- ^ The Amityville Curse (1990). Encyclopaedia of Fantastic Film and Television (2005). Retrieved on 2007-10-09. & The Amityville Curse (1989) (1990). Video. amazon.com. Retrieved on 2007-10-09.
- ^ The Amityville Curse. Reviews. Dark Angel's realm of Horror. Retrieved on 2007-10-09.
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