Blu-ray Review – The Amityville Curse

1990's "The Amityville Curse" is generally regarded as the fifth installment of "The Amityville Horror" franchise, but it remains loosely connected to previous chapters in the saga. It's a brand name cash-in offering from the producers, who hope to lure viewers into yet another round of domestic terror with a deadly house, with the series embracing its turn into a cursed object genre experience. For this round, a nightmare for new homeowners emerges from a confessional booth in a basement, with the screenwriters trying to stay connected to the Catholicism of the original endeavor while inching the picture into a psychological freak-out situation. "The Amityville Curse" (based on a book by Hans Holzer, who spent most of his latter years profiting from the "Amityville" experience) is silly, very silly, and perhaps that's the main reason to stick with the effort, which doesn't have any scares, just campy offerings of behavioral meltdowns and dimwit characters who fail to recognize trouble when it first visits them. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com