The sixth Amityville film from the original series is surprisingly one of the best. This continues the cursed object part of the series and is like part 4 set in sunny California. The lack of the dreary New England/Canadian locals of earlier entries is detrimental to the atmosphere but this entry more than makes up for it in the pure fun factor while adding a decent amount of gruesomeness. The original house is of course absent though it does make a couple of "minor" guest appearances. The cursed object here is a clock brought home by an widowed architect who has two teen children. This brings a new and interesting element to the film of time being slowed down or stopped by the cursed clock.
The pretty Shawn Weatherly who you've hopefully seen in the cult classic Shadowzone plays the architect's ex-girlfriend who has been watching his kids. Early on there's a sweaty sex scene between the two which doesn't feature nearly enough female nudity. A grunting, sweaty Stephen Macht isn't a pretty sight as he looks like he would be a runner up in a Rondo Hattan look-a-like contest with Ron Unz winning first place. The Easter Islanders could have modeled their giant stone heads after one of his ancestors. The clock slowly influences members of the household as they start to change drastically and lose touch with reality. Even the dog goes nuts, attacking Stephen and leaving him with a nasty leg wound. The wound effects are very well done and gets nastier and more infected looking as the movie progresses eventually ending up looking like a body horror grotesquerie.
Other characters here are a psychiatrist who is annoying and has a love affair with Shawn. He's easily the least interesting part of the film. Nina Talbot plays a seemingly crazy old lady who knows the history of the clock. She looks like she could be Meg Foster's grandmother. The clock belonged to medieval child murdered Gilles de Rais who I think I first learnt about from a Brodequin song. The son is the rebellious type. A one point he's accused of painting a Swastika on a neighbor's garage. This causes a full-scale police investigation which is almost a big a waste of resources as assigning dozens of FBI agents to investigate a garage door pull. In the real world every single one of these vandal "hate crimes" turns out to have been done by one of the people it's supposedly targeting. As some have said the supply of "White supremacy" is greatly exceeded by the demand. See the most recent example of an artist in Chicago using noose flyers to get publicity for her "art". If a simple piece of rope can halt the construction of the unnecessary center for one of the worst and ugliest presidents in history I would encourage people of all races to hang them. The last and best cast member is the daughter played by the adorably sexy Megan Ward. The malign influence of the house turns her from innocent to a sex-pot. At one point she's molested by her mirror image. I'm not sure if that counts as incest or just masturbation, either way it's pretty hot.
There's lots of black goo in the film making one think Armus might be invading the house. While not especially gory this still manages to be more gruesome than most entries. There's a severed dog head in a bucket and the old lady is impaled by a bird statue on top of an ice cream truck. Megan Ward uses her seductive little body to lure her boyfriend into a trap. He's sucked into a pile of goo at the house and briefly looks like that talking pizza from House IV which also came out in 1992. Eventually things start going really crazy with both Stephen and Megan really losing it. She tries to seduce her brother in a scene that will make fans of the superior second film very happy. Stephen's leg wound has gotten really nasty looking and Shawn ends up stabbing him with one of those annoying architect's tools that they use to show off and look cool in a very painful looking gore shot. There's some really bad special effects (the only fake ones in the movie) and a couple of twists to end it.
Amityville 1992: It's About Time is a superior entry in the original series and is surely better than anything made recently exploiting the series' limited name value (except for maybe Amityville Vibrator). It feels much livelier than the slow, plodding 3-5 films and has some fun gruesome effects work. The cast is much better than the 5th film. The yummy Megan Ward stands out as the seductive sister/daughter and brings back incest to the series, the brother/sister subplot being the most beloved part of the second film. Evil curses that make people horny are much more interesting than ones that merely make them murderous. This also does a decent job of combining "fun" scares with some actually tense and scary ones. While it's in no way a horror/comedy it does have enough lighter moments to keep it from being as stuffy as previous entries. If the dull part 4 and the slow but passable part 5 made you turn against this series watch this one and you'll realize it still has fun to offer.
The pretty Shawn Weatherly who you've hopefully seen in the cult classic Shadowzone plays the architect's ex-girlfriend who has been watching his kids. Early on there's a sweaty sex scene between the two which doesn't feature nearly enough female nudity. A grunting, sweaty Stephen Macht isn't a pretty sight as he looks like he would be a runner up in a Rondo Hattan look-a-like contest with Ron Unz winning first place. The Easter Islanders could have modeled their giant stone heads after one of his ancestors. The clock slowly influences members of the household as they start to change drastically and lose touch with reality. Even the dog goes nuts, attacking Stephen and leaving him with a nasty leg wound. The wound effects are very well done and gets nastier and more infected looking as the movie progresses eventually ending up looking like a body horror grotesquerie.
Other characters here are a psychiatrist who is annoying and has a love affair with Shawn. He's easily the least interesting part of the film. Nina Talbot plays a seemingly crazy old lady who knows the history of the clock. She looks like she could be Meg Foster's grandmother. The clock belonged to medieval child murdered Gilles de Rais who I think I first learnt about from a Brodequin song. The son is the rebellious type. A one point he's accused of painting a Swastika on a neighbor's garage. This causes a full-scale police investigation which is almost a big a waste of resources as assigning dozens of FBI agents to investigate a garage door pull. In the real world every single one of these vandal "hate crimes" turns out to have been done by one of the people it's supposedly targeting. As some have said the supply of "White supremacy" is greatly exceeded by the demand. See the most recent example of an artist in Chicago using noose flyers to get publicity for her "art". If a simple piece of rope can halt the construction of the unnecessary center for one of the worst and ugliest presidents in history I would encourage people of all races to hang them. The last and best cast member is the daughter played by the adorably sexy Megan Ward. The malign influence of the house turns her from innocent to a sex-pot. At one point she's molested by her mirror image. I'm not sure if that counts as incest or just masturbation, either way it's pretty hot.
There's lots of black goo in the film making one think Armus might be invading the house. While not especially gory this still manages to be more gruesome than most entries. There's a severed dog head in a bucket and the old lady is impaled by a bird statue on top of an ice cream truck. Megan Ward uses her seductive little body to lure her boyfriend into a trap. He's sucked into a pile of goo at the house and briefly looks like that talking pizza from House IV which also came out in 1992. Eventually things start going really crazy with both Stephen and Megan really losing it. She tries to seduce her brother in a scene that will make fans of the superior second film very happy. Stephen's leg wound has gotten really nasty looking and Shawn ends up stabbing him with one of those annoying architect's tools that they use to show off and look cool in a very painful looking gore shot. There's some really bad special effects (the only fake ones in the movie) and a couple of twists to end it.
Amityville 1992: It's About Time is a superior entry in the original series and is surely better than anything made recently exploiting the series' limited name value (except for maybe Amityville Vibrator). It feels much livelier than the slow, plodding 3-5 films and has some fun gruesome effects work. The cast is much better than the 5th film. The yummy Megan Ward stands out as the seductive sister/daughter and brings back incest to the series, the brother/sister subplot being the most beloved part of the second film. Evil curses that make people horny are much more interesting than ones that merely make them murderous. This also does a decent job of combining "fun" scares with some actually tense and scary ones. While it's in no way a horror/comedy it does have enough lighter moments to keep it from being as stuffy as previous entries. If the dull part 4 and the slow but passable part 5 made you turn against this series watch this one and you'll realize it still has fun to offer.