Amityville Toybox (2016), The Amityville Terror (2016), Amityville: No Escape (2016)

The first Amityville movie was The Amityville Horror in 1979. Since then, there have been over thirty movies released. Some of them were backed by studios and Hollywood production companies. Others were independent productions. Over the past six months, I’ve watched sixteen of those movies. I’ve watched sixteen movies related to the Amityville hauntings. Some of them were more related to the hauntings thank others.

I’m getting to the end of those sixteen movies with this post. I have three movies left to write about. It has been a long journey that has had its highs and lows. Some of the movies were better than the others. Hopefully I’m not hitting any lows in these three movies. Rather than write some elaborate introduction, I’m just going to get right into them.

Amityville Toybox

Here we go again. Amityville Toybox was another Amityville movie that began with the DeFeo murders. Connecting the story to those murders isn’t inherently a bad thing. It gives a movie that isn’t set within 112 Ocean Avenue an extra bit of foundation for why it is an Amityville movie. That’s what the opening scene did. It connected to the story that took place in the current day in a different house. But at this point in the Amityville movies, seeing the DeFeo murders play out once again is like watching a Batman movie and seeing his parents die in an alleyway. It’s a little tired.

Anyway, Amityville Toybox was an alright post-remake Amityville movie. The Janson family reunited for the fiftieth birthday of the patriarch, Mark (Mark Popejoy). During the gift-giving portion of the reunion, Mark was given a toy monkey. You know, the one with the cymbals that crash together. That monkey came from 112 Ocean Avenue and brought some of the evil with it. Mark slowly unravelled, seeing his dead father, and threatening the lives of everyone in the house. Tragedy was set to strike again, forty years after the original murders.

What really worked about Amityville Toybox was that it didn’t try to reinvent the formula of the Amityville movies. It did what any of the cursed item sequels from the original run did. There was a toy monkey and with it came the evil of 112 Ocean Avenue. It didn’t add any new ripples, which was a shame. It wasn’t a clock manipulating time or a dollhouse manipulating space. But it also wasn’t the lamp, a physical representation of the evil. The toy monkey felt much more like a vessel, bringing the evil into the new home before disappearing from the story. Aside from being in the background during scenes where evil things happened. It wasn’t constantly the center of the story as the source of all evil, though, which was good.

Story-wise, Amityville Toybox was more of what had been seen numerous times throughout the Amityville franchise. A family came together. The father became possessed by some evil, and eventually lashed out on his family. The main twist of this one was that most of the aggression the evil built up within Mark was directed at his children’s sexual encounters. There was one daughter who was pregnant, and the father was absent. There was a gay son who brought his boyfriend home for the first time. There was the daughter who had a new boyfriend that he didn’t like. The drunk and promiscuous girl, and the happily single and not looking to hook up girl. Each of them, aside from the single and not looking girl, had some sort of sexual activity during the movie that fed into the evil growing within Mark. Eventually, he snapped.

And what was it about the evil that made him snap? Through the Amityville movies, there have been various ways that the evil got into people’s heads. Sometimes, it simply changed their moods. Other times, they heard voices and saw things. Mark saw his dead father, who was slowly wearing him down. Once Mark was worn down, he would be open to manipulation by the evil, through his father’s image. It was refreshing for an Amityville movie to go back to the mental manipulation side of the evil, rather than the historical repetition side of things where the modern-day people were evil and working with the evil spirits.

The repetition was still there in a way, through the DeFeo murders. The evil was pushing Mark to kill his family in the same way that Ronald DeFeo Jr. had shot his family while they slept. History still repeated itself. The difference between Amityville Toybox and movies like The Amityville Asylum or The Amityville Theater was that the repetition was only being brought on by the evil spirit. There was nobody helping the spirit for their own nefarious means. This was just what the spirit did. It was what the spirit wanted. History would repeat itself because the evil was still there. That was all.

Overall, Amityville Toybox was an enjoyable entry in the franchise. The acting might not have been the best, but there has also been much worse in previous films. The bad acting only really came out in the angrier moments. Don’t go into this one expecting anything great, but you could do worse with an Amityville movie.

The Amityville Terror

You might be expecting me to say “and this is where we get worse.” That wouldn’t be true. The Amityville Terror was actually a pretty good movie. Did it have the big budget or studio backing of the original eight movies? No. It didn’t even have the production value of most of the direct-to-video entries during that studio era of Amityville movies. However, it did have good production value for something made relatively cheaply outside of that big studio system. And, it might even be better than some of those older movies.

Todd (Kaiwi Lyman-Mersereau) and Jessica Jacobson (Kim Nielsen) moved into a new house with their daughter Hailey (Nicole Tompkins) and Todd’s sister Shae (Amanda Barton). It was a nice, big house in a nice, small town. Only, things weren’t as nice as they seemed. Strange things began to happen. Shae was acting weird. People around town weren’t getting too friendly with the family. Todd’s boss died under odd circumstances. It seemed like there might be something involving their new home that caused all the strange happenings.

I’m not entirely sure if The Amityville Terror was connected to the previous Amityville stories in any way. Or even if it was connected to the Amityville hauntings or murders at all. It felt very much like a standalone movie. What happened in the Jacobson house was something that hadn’t happened before. It shared similarities, mostly in that an evil spirit terrorized the occupants of a house, manipulating what they heard, saw, and did, and eventually possessed someone. That’s fairly standard for an Amityville movie. But it wasn’t the house. There was no mention of the Lutz family or the DeFeos. The only connection to Amityville was that they lived in a haunted house in Amityville.

The Amityville Terror fit into the same mould as The Amityville Asylum and The Amityville Theater. It was another movie where people were brought into the location by a knowing outsider to sacrifice them to the demonic force. I’d say that, at this point in the Amityville saga, it was the best representation of that storyline. Even if it didn’t connect to the DeFeos like the other two movies did, it executed the story much better. The acting, the writing, the scope… It was all a step forward that made up for losing the connection to the Amityville legend.

I want to talk about the scope, most of all. The Amityville Terror broadened the world beyond the house and into the town. Many of the post-remake movies kept the story to minimal locations. It was nice to see one movie decide to go the opposite direction. The house was an important location, to be sure. (Side note: the interior was filmed in the same house as Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes). But there were other locations that The Amityville Terror visited. There was a mechanic’s garage, a high school, a cabin where the teenagers hung out, a restaurant, and someone else’s house. The town of Amityville felt like a town. It didn’t feel like the house, or the theater, or the asylum, was just in some sort of limbo with nobody else around. It was a nice change of pace.

As for the haunting, it was standard stuff. One of the family members was possessed by whatever evil spirit was in the house. There was a little incest, which wasn’t the first, second, or third time for the Amityville movies. The realtor moved families into the house to sacrifice them to whatever evil was in there, which was also a standard enough storyline for the movies. It wasn’t anything overly inventive, but each of those elements were put to good use. It was a compelling haunting that I’d definitely revisit if I felt like watching a post-remake Amityville movie again.

I’m a week out from when these posts are going to drop, which means I’m definitely not going to get through all the Amityville movies. I’m not even going to get to the point I wanted to. I do have enough time for one more movie, though, so I’m going to move onto the next Amityville movie, and the final one I’ll be checking out. For now.

Amityville: No Escape

This was an interesting movie to end on. It dealt with the idea of history repeating itself, which has been a common theme throughout the Amityville movies. It featured 112 Ocean Avenue. Plus, it went back to the found footage format, which came up previously in The Amityville Haunting. It was a movie that felt like history repeating while presenting a story about history repeating. Only, this one was terrible.

Amityville: No Escape wasn’t on the same level of terrible as The Amityville Asylum or The Amityville Playhouse. It was competently made. The actors felt like real actors. Well, aside from that guy with the gun in the woods. The interactions felt natural, like real conversations between real people. The story, itself, aside from the final twist, was a decent enough story. The problem was mainly that everything was boring. It was boring beyond belief.

There were two timelines in Amityville: No Escape. The first took place in 1997. Lina (Julia Gomez) moved into 112 Ocean Avenue by herself. She was waiting for her husband to join her after his tour of duty. She didn’t know about the history of the house, but quickly learned as she experienced a bunch of spooky situations. Things were moving. Doors were opening. The house was clearly haunted. It was recorded on video as Lina made diaries for her soldier husband. In the present day, George Harris (Josh Miller) took his sister Elizabeth (Allison Egan), his girlfriend Sarah (Joni Durian), and a couple of their friends to camp out near 112 Ocean Avenue as part of his college thesis about fear. They brought a couple cameras and spent a couple nights. Obviously, things got scarier than they anticipated.

Having the two storylines run concurrently was a nice bit of history repeating itself. Lina experienced her haunting while George experienced his. There were references to the DeFeo murders and references to the Lutz family leaving all their belongings behind. Based on that information, the paranormal activities at 112 Ocean Avenue had happened at least four times. History kept repeating itself. The stories didn’t really connect all that much, though. Lina wasn’t related to any of the characters in George’s storyline. She didn’t know them, and they didn’t know her. There was one little connection at the end of the movie, but that was it. As nice as it was to see history repeating itself, a theme that has come up time and time again in these movies, it would have been nice to have some direct connections between the timelines. As it was, Amityville: No Escape felt like two movies spliced together for no rhyme or reason.

And both stories were boring. Lina went about her daily diaries. She talked to her husband, with no response, about nothing. She did aerobics. Sometimes a mug moved or a cupboard door opened. Mostly she just said she missed him and wanted him home. It barely even picked up at the end when the climax happened. George’s story was a little better. The characters talked about their deepest fears, and then experienced fear. The main problem was when things really started to get going. Characters kept dying off screen. Out of the five characters and the guy with the gun in the woods, four of them died off screen. They basically went with a tell don’t show approach, which is the opposite of what a movie should do.

It felt like a chore to get through Amityville: No Escape. The movies had been on an upswing. They had been improving. This one brought that all crashing down. It wasn’t in the sub-basement, but it was pushing its way there. Simply because it was boring. A good half of the movie was spent with nothing happening. No action, no character development… Nothing. Add in the found footage camerawork and there were no exciting visuals, either. This one was a dud.

I expected to end week 500 on a low note, if I’m being completely honest. I’m sixteen (seventeen when you count the one I didn’t watch) movies into a series that isn’t known for being good. And I’m out of the recognizable Hollywood ones. I’m into the direct-to-video or limited theatrical release independent movies. The chances of ending on a high note with those was slim to begin with. I could have stopped while I was ahead, but thought I’d push for one more. Oh well.

This has been a fun journey through sixteen Amityville movies. There were highs and there were lows. I don’t regret watching any of them. Even if I just made it sound like I regretted watching the last one. I found some movies I quite enjoyed that I had never seen before. Amityville: It’s About Time still stands as my favourite. Amityville Dollhouse isn’t far behind. The Amityville Terror was a surprise delight, too. There were some good ones in there, aside from the theatrical ones, and I’m glad I found them.

At some point, I’ll return to the Amityville movies. There are still a whole bunch that I need to check out. Some of them have crazy names like Amityville in Space, Amityville Karen, and Amityville Vibrator. You know I need to see those. For now, this is where I’m packing it in. Sixteen movies. I only had to skip one because I couldn’t find a way to watch it. 500 weeks of Sunday “Bad” Movies. What a wild ride this has been.

Now for notes about these three movies:

• The Amityville Terror featured Sarah Lieving, who was in The Beast of Bray Road (week 176) and Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus (week 300).
• Another three-timer in The Amityville Terror was Amanda Barton from The Beast of Bray Road (week 176) and Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver (week 302).
• Kaiwi Lyman was in Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus (week 300) and The Amityville Terror.
• Finally, Tonya Kay appeared in both The Amityville Terror and Evil Bong 666 (week 482).
• Have you seen Amityville Toybox? Have you seen The Amityville Terror? Have you seen Amityville: No Escape? What did you think of them? The comments are a good place to let me know, as is Twitter.
• If there are any movies that you think would make a good fit for Sunday “Bad” Movies, tell me. Find me on Twitter. Find me in the comments. Tell me what would fit.
• You can find more Sunday “Bad” Movies goodies on Instagram.
• And now we have a look at what will be coming up next week. This coming weekend will be both Canada Day in Canada and Independence Day in the US. I thought I’d go with a bad Canadian movie in celebration. When I went searching, I stumbled upon something called Ryan’s Babe. I thought I’d give it a shot. We’ll see how that goes. See you in a week!

The Amityville Asylum (2013), The Amityville Theater (2013? 2015?), Amityville Death House (2015)

The haunting and murders at 112 Ocean Avenue have been the source of terror for many stories for decades. The DeFeo murders happened in 1974. The Lutz family lived in the house in 1975. The Amityville Horror was released as a novel in 1977 and a movie in 1979. Things blew up from there with numerous books and movies through the 80s and 90s. The movies went dormant between 1996 and 2005, and then again from 2005 until 2011. It’s after that where we pick up.

The release of The Amityville Haunting in 2011 signified a new era of Amityville movies emerging. After a singular series of movies and a remake, the door was open to anyone to make their own interpretation of the material. I don’t know if it was a rights availability thing, or if it was the ability of the average person to get some decent film equipment. Either way, there was an explosion of Amityville movies on the horizon. An explosion that hasn’t subsided since.

The Amityville Haunting clearly kicked that explosion off. It was The Asylum doing their standard mockbuster thing, only using the Amityville name while doing it. It wasn’t released around the time of the theatrical remake. It was six years later. Its release showed that the Amityville movies didn’t need bigger budgets or big Hollywood backing to be made. Anyone could take whatever equipment they could get their hands on, throw some people on the screen, and tell their own Amityville story. It was a franchise where continuity had never been a thing, so it didn’t matter if they followed any of the other stories. The movies were going to be standalone anyway.

There was a six-year gap between the remake The Amityville Horror and The Amityville Haunting. There would only be two years between The Amityville Haunting and the next Amityville movie. The gaps between movies would never be that large again. We’re only in 2022 right now, and since the release of The Amityville Haunting, there have been at least twenty-three other Amityville movies released. I’m going to get into four of them in this post, though one of them is really just to say why I didn’t watch it. Let’s get started then.

The Amityville Asylum

I think the Amityville movies are going to go downhill real fast. There’s something about the 2010s where it just clicked for people that they could make any Amityville movie they wanted. They could use the name, maybe take some of the mythology, and do whatever the hell they felt like. This was one of those movies, placing an asylum on the property formerly known as 112 Ocean Avenue. It took some of the DeFeo stuff and basically ignored anything from any other Amityville story.

Lisa Templeton (Sophia Del Pizzo) interviewed for a custodial job at High Hopes Psychiatric Hospital. Soon after she started, Lisa began seeing things. She saw patients that other staff members swore weren’t patients. She heard things that other staff said she couldn’t have possibly heard. She had to be making it up. When Lisa looked into it further, she discovered that the hospital was built on the grounds of the famous Amityville house and the strange things were associated with some cult activity that went on in the house. Someone was trying to kill people for their own immortality. Lisa had to stop them.

The story itself wasn’t too bad. It kind of took the ending twist of the 2005 remake of The Amityville Horror and expanded that idea. In a different way, of course. Someone was using the patients at the hospital for their own gain. Their own supernatural gain. It tied into the DeFeo murders in a way that felt real to the movie. Past and present mirroring sort of thing. History repeating itself. That was all good. The story was solid.

It was the filmmaking techniques that really ruined what could have been a solid Amityville entry. Specifically, the sound mixing was some of the worst work I’ve seen done in any movie. There were the stereotypical stings when a twist happened. Kind of like the “dun dun dunnnnnn” of the dramatic gopher or whatever. But then there were the multiple times when two characters would have a conversation filled with important dialogue and the music would turn up so loud that it was impossible to decipher what anyone said. Unless you used subtitles or could read lips, I guess. Sometimes, the audience’s lack of hearing the dialogue could help with a movie or television show. I’m thinking of something like when Michael left The Office and there was that shot of him and Pam talking without the audience being able to hear. But there’s a specific time for something like that to be used, and it’s not when the villain is revealing their true nature.

The other odd thing was the setting. It’s not strange for an Amityville movie to be set in Amityville. That was perfectly fine. It was the accents that didn’t quite make sense. The Amityville Asylum was a British movie, so it had a bunch of British actors filling the roles. Most of them didn’t try to hide their accents. Yes, there would be British people in America. That’s how immigration works. But for a movie set on Long Island to feature so many British people working in an asylum… It felt off and broke some of the suspension of disbelief. Had it been set in, say, Liverpool, I probably wouldn’t have a problem with it. It was set in Long Island, New York, though. That was strange.

The sound mixing really was the killer for The Amityville Asylum. It continuously broke any tension that was building up. It kept muddying the waters of the story, making it more incomprehensible. I was still able to get the basics and understand that there was potential for a decent Amityville story here. The asylum was built on the grounds of the Amityville house. The deaths of six people on that land would grant someone immunity. They would be able to live forever. The runtime was spent having Lisa dig into the history of the DeFeo murders and discover why they mattered in the present day. That’s a solid story. It just happened to be ruined by atrocious sound design and mixing. I wish it hadn’t because I like the idea of history repeating itself. It’s an idea that continued into the next movie.

The Amityville Theater

Okay, so The Amityville Theater was kind of a mix between The Amityville Curse and The Amityville Asylum. It took the history repeating itself part of The Amityville Asylum and combined it with the part of The Amityville Curse where it was the whole town of Amityville that was cursed. Like the movie that came before it, there was potential in the story. Not quite the same amount of potential, thanks to the essentially single-location setting. But there was potential if the world expanded a little.

Fawn Herriman (Monele LeStrat) inherited an old theatre in Amityville after the untimely deaths of her parents. The type of theatre that puts on plays, not a movie theatre. She invited four friends to join her as she spent her vacation visiting the abandoned theatre that was now hers. As they investigated the theatre, the friends found out that all was not what it seemed. There were some spooky things going on, and it would only be a matter of time before they came face-to-face with them. While the friends were investigating, Fawn’s teacher Victor (John R. Walker) researched the theater and realized he had to go there to warn Fawn about the danger she was going to experience.

The theatre of The Amityville Theater was not located on the same grounds as the infamous Amityville house. It was its own thing located in Amityville. That was what put it in the same territory as The Amityville Curse. It wasn’t the house or that property that the evil had gotten into. The entire town was a danger spot. The entire town was a gateway to Hell, causing horrible things to happen to the people within. I didn’t like that idea when it was used in The Amityville Curse, mostly because the entire story felt disconnected from the rest of the franchise. It worked a little better in The Amityville Theater because there was some connective tissue.

That tissue came in the form of Victor’s research. As he reached out to various sources to find out what danger awaited in the theater, he discovered a series of deaths. The DeFeo murders were only one mass murder in a long line of mass deaths that had happened in Amityville. When he dug further, he discovered that there was a ritual where six people would be sacrificed to six demons that the town had “wronged” many years ago. It happened time and time again. Fawn and her four friends, as well as a squatter they found in the theater, were set to be the next sacrifices, just as the DeFeos had been sacrifices. History was repeating itself by way of the DeFeo murders. It was all connected.

Even though I liked the idea of the town of Amityville sacrificing six people every once in a while to appease the demons, it wasn’t enough to make The Amityville Theater a good movie. There were some major issues. One, outside of the few scenes of Victor’s journey to the theatre, the movie was set in an abandoned theater. There were really only four locations in the theater and only one of them was exciting in any way. There was a dressing room without furniture. There was a stairwell. There was a basement. And then there was the main theatre hall, which had the stage, the seats, and the balcony. It had some substance to it that the movie could use. People appearing in different places, falling, screams echoing. Stuff like that. For the most part, though, the abandoned theatre wasn’t utilized as a good location.

Then there was the acting. None of the acting in The Amityville Theater was good. Everyone felt stiff to the point that nothing was believable. Unconvincing angry acting is the worst and there was a bunch of that. Nobody was conveying the emotions of the situation they were in. It was all hollow bickering that didn’t feel realistic. It was painful to sit through.

I’ve really gotten into the worst of the Amityville movies now. The era of people doing whatever they want with the DeFeo murders and interpolating whatever they want from the source material is in full swing. Hopefully, there are some better ones. After these two, pretty much anything would be a step in the right direction.

Amityville Death House

Okay, here we go. This one isn’t necessarily a good movie. But it’s at least entertaining and watchable. That’s something. I really needed that after The Amityville Asylum and The Amityville Theater. It was competently made, which was all the difference needed to give it some sort of life. If only any Amityville movie could reach that low, low bar.

Amityville Death House was the brainchild of Mark Polonia. Tiffany (Kyrsten St. Pierre) and her friends went to Amityville to check on her grandmother. Things got spooky rather fast with strange noises and sights all through the night. The whole while, Sheriff McGrath (Ken Van Sant) was investigating some missing townspeople. One woman had gone missing from her car. A squirrel hunter went missing while hunting squirrels. That sort of stuff. Both stories were being manipulated by a warlock (Eric Roberts), seeking revenge for the lynching of a witch many years prior.

I’m not going to sit here an say that Amityville Death House was a masterpiece. It wasn’t. It still came in among the lower entries in the Amityville… It’s not a franchise at this point. Is it a genre? I don’t know. It’s one of the lower end Amityville movies, though. That said, it did some stuff that the bottom-of-the-barrel Amityville movies didn’t do. Particularly, the sound design was a little better, the acting was a little better, and it didn’t have a demonic lamp. I guess you could say it avoided the mistakes that the others made.

The acting in Amityville Death House wasn’t great, but it had something that was missing in the previous Amityville movie. The actors felt like they were having conversations with each other. They weren’t just reciting dialogue stiffly. Sure, a couple of the actors still gave hollow performances, but at least it felt like they were interacting with other people. Some of the actors were good, too. Eric Roberts, giving what I’m pretty sure was just a voice performance, gave some gravitas to everything. St. Pierre and Van Sant were also good in their respective roles.

The biggest issue I had with Amityville Death House was how little it tied into the Amityville mythos. The haunting that the characters were experiencing didn’t really connect to the DeFeos, the Lutzes, or anything that happened in the 112 Ocean Avenue house. The closest there was to a connection was that the witch who had been lynched had lived in a house with moon-eye windows. It wasn’t the same house. It just shared the look of the windows. That was a tenuous connection. Instead, the mythos was that a witch who had been lynched was seeking revenge on the descendants of the people who lynched her. That was more a revenge story than an Amityville story.

As for what Amityville Death House actually did well, there was some good effects work. This mostly came in the climactic moments as the spells of the warlock were taking full hold. I’m not going to get too much into them, but there were some well done prosthetic effects. It would have been easy to fumble this aspect of the movie, or to hide the effects behind dark and shadow. That wasn’t so much the case. The effects were featured, and they were well done for the low budget the movie clearly had. That was impressive.

Amityville Death House wasn’t a perfect film. By no means was it perfect. It had some issues. It was disconnected from the Amityville lore and could have been set anywhere. Some of the acting lacked the depth and emotion it needed to really sell the scares. But it was a nice step up from the movies that immediately preceded it in the Amityville series. I think this is the quality range things will be hanging out around from now on, so my hopes aren’t too high. There’s always a chance something could be better than this. We’ll see.

Amityville: Vanishing Point

I didn’t watch this one. It wasn’t because I didn’t want to. There was just no accessible way for me to watch it, so I had to skip onto the next one. Maybe, one day, I’ll come back to it when I have a way to watch it. I’m sure there will be other Amityville movies to watch, too.

The abundance of Amityville movies that came out post-remake meant that there was a better chance to have a bad one. There were a few reasons for that. One was just simple math. More means a higher chance of something. With one movie, you have one chance for good or bad. With fifty movies, you have fifty chances. Simple as that. Two was the lower budgets. A lower budget leads to fewer resources, or fewer good resources. There might not be any good actors available with such low pay. And then there was three, experience. The earlier Amityville movies were backed by production companies that had Hollywood history. They made sure to hire crew that had experience and could guarantee certain filmmaking standards. Lower budget independent movies don’t have that luxury. Whoever they get is who they get, and they just have to work with it.

The Amityville Asylum, The Amityville Theater, and Amityville Death House were perfect examples of that. The Amityville Asylum was able to pull together a decent cast, but they couldn’t quite nail the sound design. The Amityville Theater had some decent writing, but fell flat when bringing in actors. Amityville Death House had a more experienced director in Mark Polonia, who was able to bring things together to make something decent, even if it didn’t quite compare to the stuff that bigger production companies had done with the Amityville movies.

I could go on and on about the Amityville movies. There are enough of them that someone could write a five-hundred-page book analyzing them all and still be nowhere near done discussing them. That’s not my place. At least, right now, it’s not. I’m not getting paid for this. I’m doing it out of my own… I wouldn’t call it enjoyment. I’ve enjoyed some of them, but not all of them. I’m doing this just because I am. And I’m running out of time, so I’m not going to get to them all right now. I’ve got enough time for three more and I’ll get to them soon.

Here are some notes for these three movies:

• Mark Polonia directed Amityville Death House. He also directed Bigfoot vs. Zombies (week 218).
• Amityville Death House was the sixth Sunday “Bad” Movies appearance for Eric Roberts, who was previously in A Talking Cat!?! (week 94), Chicks Dig Gay Guys (week 145), The Human Centipede III (week 180), DOA: Dead or Alive (week 191), and Miss Cast Away and the Island Girls (week 208).
• Gary Martin was in The Amityville Theater and Slaughter High (week 279).
• Five actors from Bigfoot vs. Zombies (week 218) were in Amityville Death House. They were Todd Carpenter, Steve Diasparra, Danielle Donahue, Jeff Kirkendall, and Ken Van Sant.
• Finally, John Migliore popped up in Amityville Death House. He was also in Antisocial (week 214).
• Have you seen The Amityville Asylum? Have you seen The Amityville Theatre? Have you seen Amityville Death House? What did you think of them? Let me know on Twitter or in the comments.
• Hit me up on Twitter with any suggestions of movies I should be checking out for Sunday “Bad” Movies. You could also leave any suggestions in the comments. Tell me what I should see.
• Sunday “Bad” Movies is on Instagram, so why not head over there and take a look?
• There’s one more post to go in this big Amityville journey. For the time being, at least. I’ll surely get back around to the Amityville movies at some point. The next post will cover the last three movies I watched. I’ll be writing about The Amityville Legacy, The Amityville Terror, and Amityville: No Escape. That post should go up sometime soon.