It’s all Santo’s fault: his return to the Witchcraft series made me feel guilty about my own dangling franchises.
AMITYVILLE: A NEW GENERATION (1993)
In yet another sequel that obviously wasn’t meant to be one, a mirror from the notorious Amityville house brings mayhem to an artists’ commune and forces a young photographer to confront the truth about his father, and about himself. The film wastes a decent premise in its struggle to become “an Amityville film”, but is bolstered by a nice supporting performance by Terry O’Quinn as the cop on the case.
I have also re-formatted and added screenshots to The Amityville Horror (1979), and fixed the screenshots in Amityville 1992: It’s About Time. I had hoped to have spruced up The Amityville Curse, too, but a slack postal system means that won’t be happening until next week. Stay tuned.
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#1 by MatthewF on December 31, 2009 - 2:58 am
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Dollhouse! Dollhouse!
Y’know, memo to movie producers, I don’t think this brand has any value left in it. leave it alone. This I was considering last night having seen ten minutes of the latest failed (and by my count the fourth) attempt to resusitated the Knight Rider franchise. It’s dead now, stop flogging.
#2 by lyzard on December 31, 2009 - 3:35 am
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Know-all! 🙂
From a reviewing perspective, there’s something hugely exasperating about knowing you might NEVER get to the end of a franchise. Apart from Santo’s inadvertant example, I was prompted to get back in franchise harness by a need to at least try and finish off the Amityville and Howling films before they both start all over again.
#3 by MatthewF on December 31, 2009 - 8:16 am
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I once set out to watch all the Children of the corn movies but I just couldn’t do it. Life is too short, in all the meanings of that phrase.
#4 by El Santo on December 31, 2009 - 4:31 pm
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“I was prompted to get back in franchise harness by a need to at least try and finish off the Amityville and Howling films before they both start all over again.”
Your concern is well warranted. It took very little time after I finally finished off Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre for the remakes to start appearing, and now the remakes are getting sequels of their own!
#5 by professorKettlewell on January 1, 2010 - 2:15 am
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It’s just an application of the second law of thermodynamics, isn’t it? “in any closed system, entropy increases”. Because of conservation of franchise, the franchise cannot be destroyed, but just becomes heat and motion of a cruder and less useful and more destructive nature……?
#6 by MatthewF on January 1, 2010 - 4:26 am
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Here’s hoping for Amityville 2010: House in Space.
#7 by Prankster on January 2, 2010 - 7:00 pm
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Lyz, have you seen Lost? It’s pretty much a Terry O’Quinn showcase.
#8 by lyzard on January 2, 2010 - 7:13 pm
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As long as they bring back Jodie, and give us PIGS IN SPAAAAACE as well.
Prankster: no, I haven’t; I’m always way behind on television watching, alway too busy watching what I should have seen years ago to worry about what I should be watching now. Thanks for the heads-up, though. (Right now I’m in the middle of a period drama mini-series frenzy: just finished The Jewel In The Crown, staring on Shaka Zulu.)
#9 by The Rev. D.D. on January 4, 2010 - 11:35 am
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And our first big laugh of the new year goes to Ms. Kingsley and that Jodie line.
I’ve never seen the first three Amityville movies, but I’ve seen all the following sequels, except this one. If I’d known Terry O’Quinn was in it with a strong supporting role I’d have rectified that long ago. He’s one of those actors whose lack of recognition and, for lack of a better term, fame baffles me.
He is one of the best things about “Lost”, hands down, and about the only thing that keeps me muddling through the increasingly confusing and irritating storyline.
#10 by supersonic on January 8, 2010 - 8:24 pm
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Dude. You put “Vampyros Lesbos” and “favorite” in the same sentence.
#11 by lyzard on January 8, 2010 - 8:42 pm
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AND I’D DO IT AGAIN!!!!! MWOO-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!!
Actually, I would. I like VL quite a lot, and particularly the performance art vampirism.
Ah, Jess and his nightclub scenes…!
#12 by jana on January 28, 2010 - 7:33 pm
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I enjoyed The Stepfather- this was just as a great as the first. Dylan Walsh did a great job filling the shoes of Terry O’Quinn http://bit.ly/dicg8I