A gripping film which still packs a punch with grisly murders , tension and plot twists. A two-hundred-year-old haunted mansion , it is the setting for chosen group . The haunted house has an evil history with tragic accidents, and human misjudgement. It seems which the scary mansion has been the place of weird happenings . A doctor (Richard Crenna) and his wife (Joanna Pettet) buy a Civil War era dilapidated mansion at a bargain price to use as a clinic, and hires a few young colleagues (Andrew Prine , Cassie Yate , Lynne Moody , Mary Louise Weller) to fix it up, but the mansion hides a deadly secrets before the evil demon deciding to utilize its powers by attacking the guests . Later on , they're plunged by demonic forces into supernatural attitude. As he and his associates are victimized by supernatural powers within. Escape is just a nerve-shredding scream for salvation! . Witness Its Awakening. An ancient horror slept beneath the old haunted mansion... nothing could stop its escape! .Their only hope of ever leaving alive or dead is the ghostly resident that built the house ! .
Effective chiller about a strange house located at an isolated location that causes creepy goings-on in its new owners . Mindless and acceptable film is packed with thrills , chills , intrigue , suspense, horror and lots of interminable screams with no sense . Moderated budget makes for big scary scream-feast . An intriguing tale of suspense and survival , as the film contains restless terror and great loads of screams , gore , blood and usual poltergeist phenomenon caused by the curse and the usual ghastly shenanigans with a weird threat that manifests itself with violent attacks, doors suddenly slam , deadly fires and anything else . It is produced in limited budget but well recreated with high grade special effects that are frightening and horrifying to spectator. This is the classic version about the haunted mansion in the infamous ¨Amityville¨ house style , with lots of screams and strange deeds in which some visitors fall into supernatural terror . The story starts little by little , some youngsters arrive , but they find only devilish horror , full of nightmares and extreme terror that turns out to be a haven for a demonic force . And soon the poltergeists make their nasty appearance originating a lot of unusual rattles and creaks , things go wrong when a cross is removed from a stone door in the basement and satan himself begins wreak havoc on each person one by one. The main and support cast are acceptable . Richard Crenna is fine as psychologist buys an old mansion as well as his wife played by Joanna Pettet . The original ¨Exorcist¨ film (by William Friedkin) spawned a wave of demonic possession movies that continues unabated today as ¨Changeling¨ (by Peter Medak with George C Scott), ¨Amytiville ¨(by Stuart Rosemberg with James Brolin , Margot Kidder , Rod Steiger) are two further examples of this sub-genre . Following a great number of clumsy , stupid sequels directed by Damiano Damiani , Richard Fleischer ,Sandor Stern (screenwriter of Amityville), Anthony Hitchcock. And the bad following ones just go on and on attempting to cash in on the success of the first movie . However , recently is made a good new adaptation ¨The Amityville Horror¨(2005) by Andrew Douglas with Ryan Reynolds , Melissa George and Philip Baker Hall . And adding other classic films about haunted houses such as ¨House of a haunted Hill´(1959) by william castle¨, ¨ Haunting¨(1963) by Robert Wise , and ¨The Haunting¨ by Jan De Bont (1999)
The motion picture was rofessionally directed by Gus Trikonis . He is a craftman who directed all kind of genres in films as : The Dark side of terror , County Express, The Student Body , Nashville Girl , The Swinging Barmaids , Supercock , This is my Wife' or Life with Goldie , Five the Hard Way. Later on , he moved to television , directing episodes of known series as Baywatch , Viper , Centinel , Pensacola , Quantum Leap , Burke's Law , New York Undercover, Flash , Wiseguy , SeaQuest DSV , among others . The Evil(1978) rating : 6/10 . Aceeptable and passable .
Effective chiller about a strange house located at an isolated location that causes creepy goings-on in its new owners . Mindless and acceptable film is packed with thrills , chills , intrigue , suspense, horror and lots of interminable screams with no sense . Moderated budget makes for big scary scream-feast . An intriguing tale of suspense and survival , as the film contains restless terror and great loads of screams , gore , blood and usual poltergeist phenomenon caused by the curse and the usual ghastly shenanigans with a weird threat that manifests itself with violent attacks, doors suddenly slam , deadly fires and anything else . It is produced in limited budget but well recreated with high grade special effects that are frightening and horrifying to spectator. This is the classic version about the haunted mansion in the infamous ¨Amityville¨ house style , with lots of screams and strange deeds in which some visitors fall into supernatural terror . The story starts little by little , some youngsters arrive , but they find only devilish horror , full of nightmares and extreme terror that turns out to be a haven for a demonic force . And soon the poltergeists make their nasty appearance originating a lot of unusual rattles and creaks , things go wrong when a cross is removed from a stone door in the basement and satan himself begins wreak havoc on each person one by one. The main and support cast are acceptable . Richard Crenna is fine as psychologist buys an old mansion as well as his wife played by Joanna Pettet . The original ¨Exorcist¨ film (by William Friedkin) spawned a wave of demonic possession movies that continues unabated today as ¨Changeling¨ (by Peter Medak with George C Scott), ¨Amytiville ¨(by Stuart Rosemberg with James Brolin , Margot Kidder , Rod Steiger) are two further examples of this sub-genre . Following a great number of clumsy , stupid sequels directed by Damiano Damiani , Richard Fleischer ,Sandor Stern (screenwriter of Amityville), Anthony Hitchcock. And the bad following ones just go on and on attempting to cash in on the success of the first movie . However , recently is made a good new adaptation ¨The Amityville Horror¨(2005) by Andrew Douglas with Ryan Reynolds , Melissa George and Philip Baker Hall . And adding other classic films about haunted houses such as ¨House of a haunted Hill´(1959) by william castle¨, ¨ Haunting¨(1963) by Robert Wise , and ¨The Haunting¨ by Jan De Bont (1999)
The motion picture was rofessionally directed by Gus Trikonis . He is a craftman who directed all kind of genres in films as : The Dark side of terror , County Express, The Student Body , Nashville Girl , The Swinging Barmaids , Supercock , This is my Wife' or Life with Goldie , Five the Hard Way. Later on , he moved to television , directing episodes of known series as Baywatch , Viper , Centinel , Pensacola , Quantum Leap , Burke's Law , New York Undercover, Flash , Wiseguy , SeaQuest DSV , among others . The Evil(1978) rating : 6/10 . Aceeptable and passable .