the original Amityville was pretty good, Amityville II, eh, it was alright, but after seeing two dumba**es buy a haunted house, i'm not really intent on seeing another gullible idiot buy it again. before i comment on the 3-D, i'd like to comment on the music. i'm guessing they couldn't get Lalo Schifrin to do the music for this one after the first two. His music in those two films was actually suspenseful and ominous, and i really admired it. the music in Amityville 3-D sounds like music you'd normally hear in one of those British soap operas, and it adds no atmosphere or suspense. now on to the obvious; the 3-d. the 3-D isn't horrible, but it's just really obvious in some scenes that the film's creators use almost any object on the screen to serve as a 3-D object (a hand, a jar, a pole). the same gimmick was used in 'Friday the 13th Part 3' a year earlier, except F13 part 3 was actually pretty good. the story is kind of ridiculous. this time, the series decides to leave the 'ghosts of the DeFeos' storyline out, and now go on to something really silly; apparently, the previous families had no idea that there was a giant hole in their basement - a hole, furthermore, that's one of the entrances to hell. this explains the theatrical poster, which shows a huge, creature-like arm coming out of the lower part of the house. eventually, all hell breaks loose (pun not intended) and the house convinces yet another family that the rumors are true. Very, very mediocre film. 4.5/10
P.S.: the only reason to see this film is for the hilariously lame 3-D, and a young lori loughlin (Full House) and meg ryan in the supporting cast.
P.S.: the only reason to see this film is for the hilariously lame 3-D, and a young lori loughlin (Full House) and meg ryan in the supporting cast.