The Amityville Curse
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The Amityville Curse is the fifth installment to the Amityville Horror saga
and was directed by Tom Berry, it stars Kim Coates
, Cassandra Gava
and Jan Rubes
.
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. At the end, Frank is possessed by the curse, causing him to murder Mrs. Moriarty (by pushing her from the top of a flight of stairs), Marvin and Bill. He tried to kill Debbie but he failed, and eventually, with the help of Abigail, Debbie kills Frank, and the two women are saved.
's book The Amityville Curse. The movie is unusual for featuring a completely different haunted house and a different back-story than the rest of the series.
A brief reference is made to the DeFeo murders and to the town's supernatural history, but there is no other connection to the other Amityville house, novels or films.
Even though the setting of the film is supposed to be in Amityville, it is not actually 112 Ocean Avenue, the setting for the previous Amityville films. The house used here is a different house. This film has a plot line and back-story completely unique to this film and is in no way connected to the previous films.
Amityville Horror saga
The Amityville Horror is a series of horror films that center around events in a haunted house in Amityville, New York.-Films:#The Amityville Horror #Amityville II: The Possession...
and was directed by Tom Berry, it stars Kim Coates
Kim Coates
Kim Coates is a Canadian-American actor who has worked in both Canadian and American movies and television series. He has worked on Broadway portraying Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire and in the lead role of Macbeth performed at the Stratford Theatre...
, Cassandra Gava
Cassandra Gava
Cassandra Gava is an American actress and producer best known for her performance as the witch in the 1982 film Conan the Barbarian. Her birth name is Cassandra Gaviola. She has appeared in 21 films between 1979 and 1998....
and Jan Rubes
Jan Rubes
Jan Ladislav Rubeš CM was a Czech-Canadian bass opera singer and actor.-Life and career:Rubeš was born in Volyně, Czechoslovakia, the son of Ružena and Jan Rubeš. Not too long after World War II, he graduated from the Prague Conservatoire and joined the Prague Opera House as a bass singer...
.
Plot
Five people spend the night in an abandoned haunted house in Amityville Long Island, 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. At the end, Frank is possessed by the curse, causing him to murder Mrs. Moriarty (by pushing her from the top of a flight of stairs), Marvin and Bill. He tried to kill Debbie but he failed, and eventually, with the help of Abigail, Debbie kills Frank, and the two women are saved.
Cast
- Kim CoatesKim CoatesKim Coates is a Canadian-American actor who has worked in both Canadian and American movies and television series. He has worked on Broadway portraying Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire and in the lead role of Macbeth performed at the Stratford Theatre...
as Frank - Dawna Wightman as Debbie
- Helen Hughens as Mrs. Moriarty
- David Stein as Marvin
- Anthony Dean Rubes as Bill
- Cassandra GavaCassandra GavaCassandra Gava is an American actress and producer best known for her performance as the witch in the 1982 film Conan the Barbarian. Her birth name is Cassandra Gaviola. She has appeared in 21 films between 1979 and 1998....
as Abigail - Jan RubesJan RubesJan Ladislav Rubeš CM was a Czech-Canadian bass opera singer and actor.-Life and career:Rubeš was born in Volyně, Czechoslovakia, the son of Ružena and Jan Rubeš. Not too long after World War II, he graduated from the Prague Conservatoire and joined the Prague Opera House as a bass singer...
as Priest - Scott YapheScott YapheScott Yaphe is a Canadian actor and comedian best known as a cast member of the YTV variety show It's Alive!. He moved over to the game show Uh Oh! after its cancellation in 1996...
as Thin Boy - Mark CamachoMark CamachoMark Camacho is a Canadian actor who has starred in many films, and more notably, some voice acting roles, such as Oliver Frensky in Arthur, Lyle in Animal Crackers, Dad in Rotten Ralph, Harry and Dragon in Potatoes and Dragons, Spritz T...
as Krabel
Production
The film was loosely based around Hans HolzerHans Holzer
Hans Holzer was an Austrian-born, American pioneering paranormal researcher and author. He wrote well over 100 books on supernatural and occult subjects for the popular market as well as several plays, musicals, films, and documentaries, and hosted a television show, "Ghost Hunter".- Career...
's book The Amityville Curse. The movie is unusual for featuring a completely different haunted house and a different back-story than the rest of the series.
A brief reference is made to the DeFeo murders and to the town's supernatural history, but there is no other connection to the other Amityville house, novels or films.
Even though the setting of the film is supposed to be in Amityville, it is not actually 112 Ocean Avenue, the setting for the previous Amityville films. The house used here is a different house. This film has a plot line and back-story completely unique to this film and is in no way connected to the previous films.