When I decided to binge watch the Amityville films I hadn't seen before I feared the worst. Partially because they've hardly impressed me and partially because the IMDb ratings for them were really poor.Starring Kim Coates this one screams milking the franchise, it doesn't look or feel like an Amityville film in fact I think it's barely even acknowledged twice maybe three times throughout.Random visions, a person possessed and a whole lot of nothing is what you can expect from these 90 minutes of sheer unadulterated boredom.Terrible flawed storyline, lackluster performances and very little to draw your attention for a moment let alone maintain it.The Good: Nope The Bad: The psycho music, really!? Unforgivably boringWas that even the Amityville house?Things I Learnt From This Movie: I learnt that this Amityville binge might have been a bad move

This is one of the dumbest horror movies I have ever seen. I simply find it amazing that they keep making these bad movies. The backstory for this is weird, because it says it was based on a book. I know that the original film was based on a book that was revealed to not be based on true events as the writer claimed. So was this one based on true events? I looked in the credits and it said that everything about this movie was fictional. I can certainly believe it because no people in real life would act this stupid.I believe this takes place in the same house as the previous movies, but I haven't seen all of them so I can't be sure. I honestly don't care to go out and watch every one of them. I'm only reviewing those that are somehow important and I saw this because of the extremely low rating here. How silly of me! This movie features a curse, but it has no curse in it at all. There's a few supernatural things that go on, but it's mostly a mundane story about a serial killer. Was the killer supposed to be possessed or something? As the fifth movie in the series, you'd think the townspeople of Amityville would learn their lesson for once.The acting in this film is terrible. Almost all of the characters are obnoxious and serve little purpose at all. There's this weird old woman who keeps popping up and mostly serves no point. This has some of the most clichés I've seen in a movie in a long time. We get the sound of a cat, a spider appearing, a bathtub of blood, and religious imagery. "Amityville 3-D", while still a bad movie, at least tried to have something interesting happen at the climax. The woman playing Debra is particularly bad. I did laugh a few times at how pitiful it was.This isn't for horror movie fans, Amityville fans, movie fans, or anyone at all. I'm surprised this didn't kill the franchise off for good. Apart from that, most of this movie is just plain boring. It escalates way too slowly and has no sensible characters in it. Oh, and I forgot the cliché of the ambiguous nightmares. They stopped numbering the sequels with this. They should have stopped altogether. *

This straight-to-video effort has somewhat of a terrible reputation, especially compared to the rest of the series. I haven't seen any of the other films to follow it, but the ones before; the theatrical releases (1, 2 & 3) and straight-to-TV (4) production were much better for entertainment. Were as the previous entry "The Evil Escapes" didn't feature the haunted house; "The Amityville Curse" goes go back to the earlier films formula, although the house has taken on a different transformation and the visual impact of that is less imposing. But that wasn't the main issue. This goes to the storytelling (which this plot has nothing do with the actual Amityville curse), pacing and performances. Especially the acting. David Stain and Dawna Wightman simply aggravate as the obnoxious leads, one being pompous and the other simply whining. An unbearable combination. Helen Hughes gives the usual batty old lady shtick. Then there are static turns by Kim Coates and Cassandra Cava. Only Anthony Dean Rubes showed any sort of spark. Father Parcaecus is brutally murdered in his own confessional by a mysterious assailant. After the murder, the church is closed and the belongings along with the confessional are sealed in a small room in the basement of Parcaecus' house. Years have passed when Debbie and Marvin come across the vacant house and decide to purchase it for their investment club. They invite a couple of friends up to help renovate the old house, but this weekend turns out be a nightmare with a wave of supernatural events occurring. Bog-standard shenanigans (disappearing ghostly figures) populate mostly an uneventful and tedious haunted house story spending plenty of time on filler (house in need of repairs) and non-existent chills. The story is uninteresting, plods and the final revelation you can see coming miles away. The stale script is terrible. It throws many different and hysterical ideas about, but never convincingly gels them together and leaves things rather unfulfilled. Like Debbie's baffling connection to the house. Loose and lazy work with mystery plot ties. Technically speaking it's solid, but mechanically tired and flat in its execution. Not much in the way of bumps in the night. The "Curse" is a real snooze. "Things are usually cheap for a reason."

This is most definitely the worst of the series, given the fact that it has almost nothing to do with Amityville... As a matter-of-fact, I can't remember anything that reminded me of the real horror of Amityville throughout the entire movie,except for two small things: The very ending, of course.The ending contains a possession, and a similar run of the very original story of the dangers of the actual home in Amityville. That's probably, really, the only part of the film REALLY worth seeing.The second, is just personal to me, but I've always had my attention stolen from any news of anyone hanging dead. That is by far the scariest way to die to me- a hanging. Therefore, this immediately got my curiosity.Other than that, though... ...worthless.