Amityville II: The Possession

Plot synopsis:
The Montelli family; father Anthony (Young), mother Dolores (Alda), elder son Sonny (Magner), elder teenaged daughter Patricia (Franklin) and two younger kids, move into what they think would be the house of their dreams. Initially things begin well, but everything changes after it is discovered that there is a tunnel in the basement leading into the house - from where is unknown.
An evil presence is shown to be lurking within, unknown to the family. After unusual and paranormal activities, like unknown forces banging on the door at night (when nobody is outside) and an ugly demonic message painted on the wall of the youngest Montelli kid's room, Dolores tries to have the local priest, Father Frank Adamsky (Olson) bless the house but an argument breaks out within the family shortly after Adamsky arrives, and Anthony orders him to leave. Adamsky leaves, disgusted at Anthony's behaviour. He finds his car door open and the Bible on the passenger seat torn to pieces. It is shown all is not well with the Montelli family - Anthony is strict but abusive, and sacrilegious towards the Church, and Dolores is trying to keep it together for the youngest kids. Also, Sonny and Patricia are revealed to have started to have sexual feelings for each other, due to mutual attraction that neither can act on. Soon afterward, the family go to church with Anthony, so he can apologize for being rude to Adamsky; Sonny stays at home, claiming to feel unwell. He soon hears an alarming noise and goes downstairs to get his father's gun. He hears demonic laughter and follows it to the tunnel in the basement. The (unseen) presence pursues a frightened Sonny to his room and he then falls victim to demonic possession. The first thing a now possessed Sonny does is approach Patricia to "play a game" with her - where he is a famous photographer and she is his famous nude model. She agrees to pose naked, and the pair end up having incestuous sex. She later reveals to Sonny when the two are alone that she enjoyed having sex with her brother, and doesn't feel guilty about it.
She goes to tell Father Adamsky this, but has a breakdown before she can confess; Sonny becomes more sinister and demon-like, as his face starts contorting demonically. Startled, he tries to keep his family away, but is unsuccessful due to the demon's influence. On Sonny's birthday, he isolates himself from his birthday party, and calls Patricia who comes up to check on him. She freely offers him sex once more. However, due to his demonic phases and his body's gradual demonic contortions, he sends her away, Using foul language at her as Patricia runs away crying, and tries to tell Adamsky that she thinks Sonny is possessed, but he does not answer. Later that night, the evil spirit tells Sonny to "kill them all". Sonny then goes and gets his father's rifle, shoots his father, his mother, his younger sister, his younger brother; and after a chase, finally kills Patricia.
The next day the cops arrive and pick up the bodies; Sonny is arrested, but lied he does not recall of ever killing his family. Adamsky then realizes that Sonny is possessed and asks the church if he can perform an exorcism on Sonny but they refuse, not believing him. He therefore takes it upon himself to act without the support of the church. After freeing him from police custody, he takes him to church where Sonny attacks Adamsky and escapes after seeing the crosses on the doors. Adamsky soon runs after Sonny and traces him to the house, where he performs the exorcism, releasing Sonny's soul. As the cops arrive, Adamsky asks Father Tom (Prine) to take Sonny away from him. Tom takes Sonny outside, where the police arrest him and take him back into custody. It is then revealed that the demon has transferred itself into Adamsky. What happens to Father Adamsky afterwards is unknown. Sometime later, the house is put back on sale, setting up the events of The Amityville Horror...

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Review:
The Montelli's are no typical American family, you see this from the start when Sunny returns from buying a pack of cigarettes and has an arguement with his father who threatens to "kick his ass".Yes, "Possession" did copy parts of The Exorcist, but it's still a good film with more gory scenes than the original.If you like over-acted supernatural thrillers, you may enjoy the first.
The movie was based on the actual family who lived in the Amityville house, the DeFeo's, who were all murdered by the oldest son.
The flick starts when a family formed by parents (Burt Young , Rutanya Alda) and children (Diane Franklyn , , Jack Magner) moves to Long Island where is purchased a notorious Victorian home , their house of dreams but they find only devilish horror and full of nightmares .
The new home, which proves to be evil, resulting in the demonic possession of the teenage son (Jack Magner, mercilessly hamming it up as upsetting possessed young , this is his debut theatrical feature film of actor Jack Magner whose only other screen acting credit after this movie was in Stephen King's Firestarter).
There happens a grisly mass killing based on an allegedly real life occurrence in Amityville that turns out to be a haven for demonic forces .The film contains restless terror and great loads of blood and usual poltergeists phenomenon caused by the curse and the ordinary ghastly shenanigans result to be the cracking pipelines , basement ooze ,icky stuff , and doors suddenly slam , among others .
I am not a huge fan of the Amityville Horror (1979), it was okay movie but not that scary, as it was made out to be.This movie starts of with a new family moving in to the house, a father and mother and four kids, two daughters and two sons.At first everything seem normal, until the strange things start to happen to younger two kids, as the house messed one room up but father dose not believe the kids and then he hits the poor kids, then eldest son, then point a shotgun at is father to make him stop what he doing.
(I have never hated anyone, as much as I hated the father in this movie).Soon after Sonny the oldest of the sons, start to act a bit at strange and start to feel sick, then while the whole family is out, we see how becomes possessed by the house.
Small spoiler, I liked the scenes, where we see Sonny get possessed by the house, when we see him screaming in pain, when he stomach he being press down by the unseen evil force, was really good scene, that was scary and really darkthat is one the reason i liked this movie more then first and this is a lot more darker then first movie and the acting was outstanding from everyoneI would have give this movie 10 but I find the ending, a tad boring and disappointing.so I am going to give this movie a 8 out of 10.
Much worse."Amityville II: The Possession" is a prequel to the 1979 semi-classic "Amityville Horror" and is (very) loosely based on the DeFeo murders that took place in the famed house before the Lutz family moved in.
The incest thing was unpleasant (but note the suggestion of incest in the actual DeFeo case, as discussed in the book "Murder in Amityville".The scene where the little boy is chased around the house and finally shot is also quite distressing.But, to be fair, this is a horror movie.
This film, though extremely creepy, is a prequel of sorts to the 1979 hit, "The Amityville Horror." It is loosely based on the 1974 mass murder of the Long Island family who resided in the infamous house.
By the next day this evil spirit took over the body of the Montelli's oldest son Sonny, Jack Magner, and created such havoc in the house that Mrs. Dlores Montelli, Rulanya Alda, became very religious and went to see the local Catholic Priest Father Adamsky, James Olson.
The crude and uncouth Mr. Tony Montelli (Burt Young), who's no Robert Young in "Father Knows Best", acts like a wild lunatic beating both his wife and two little kids Jan & Mark, Erika & Brent Katz, thinking that their responsible for the strange and weird things thats happening in the house.
At a birthday party for Sonny later in the week Sonny holds Patricia in such an amorous embrace that his and Pat's mom, Dolores, gets sicken by it and later tells Patricia just how depraved she and her brother are.The movie "Amityville II" then follows the story of what really happened at the house on 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville NY with Sonny, like Ronald Defeo who in real life murdered his entire family back on November 13, 1974,in an act of demonic insanity murders, with a shotgun like Roland DeFeo did, his Mon Deloros and dad Tony as well as his two sisters Pat and little Jan and his younger brother Mark.
This is loosely based on the real life DeFeo family who were murdered at 112 Ocean Avenue by Ronald DeFeo Jr. On November 13th 1974.In spite of mixed critical and horror fan reaction, Amityville II was a success at the box office and does in fact have a fan base that believes it is easily the best film of the franchise.
Now that may not be saying much since the first film, which is often considered the best of the bunch, isn't exactly great horror anyway, but Amityville 2, in spite of its obvious flaws, does contain good ideas and moments of genuine spooky unease.
However, for those who like their horror to be about creepy houses and a haunting of some kind, then there is much to enjoy in this prequel.From the off the tone is set as we hear the creepy strains of cherubic warbles, the house, with its distinctive Dutch Colonial face, homes into view and then it's the introduction of the Montelli family, a family soon to be terrorised by one of their own after a demon is released and takes possession of the eldest son.
This movie is based on the story of Ronald DeFeo Jr., the man that killed his family in real life - he was tried and convicted of 2nd Degree Murder.The original Amityville Horror film is based on the real story of George and Kathy Lutz who left the home 28 days after of living there - claiming it was haunted.It is safe to say that Amityville 2 is a prequel to Amityville Horror.
Both films are worth watching if you like haunted houses and demon possession stories.8/10.
The expected "Amityville Horror" plot turns into something more like "The Exorcist" meets the monster movie, which turns out to be a good thing.
By the film's last rites, you see they actually had something going; now, if they only started without the baggage of the "Amityville" Long Island house of horror, and simple did a monster possession movie.
Even if it took a bit from the Exorcist, the possessed guy belongs well to the story, and when he starts to murder his family, I must admit that I've rarely seen scenes that tense and horrifying, especially when he pointed the gun at the kids and u hear the gun fire.
Better than the Exorcist - The murder scene where Sonny kills his sister (that look on his face) - WHOAA!Still gives me nightmares till this day - As for the acting I personally think this was much ahead of it's time, most movies in this genre often fail to pull it off, whereas at this fine piece of horror history will redefine how the chills (those little hairs at the back of your neck)will come alive, and near leave you gasping in sheer fright..
As this is a prequel to the first movie and the first movie told you what happened at the house before the Lutzes moved in, you can see where this is headed.If you know anything about the story behind the Amityville Horror, you know that the Montellis are stand-ins for the DeFeo family, which was murdered by son Ronald.
For those of us that watch movies and are able to separate facts from what is made up or imagined, Amityville 2 is an excellent (although at sometimes hackneyed, schlocky and plain cheesy) horror film that evokes painful emotions as well as an depressing slow moving art house film.The dark pernicious mood is well established with the camera work, sinister lighting, and general hopelessness that settles into Sonny's festering possession.The Lutzs, obsessed with the occult and the financial gains they could take from the atrocity of six murders of the DeFeo family in Amityville, Long Island in 1974.
In 1982, Italian director Damiano Damiani gave us Amityville II: The Possession (1982), a prequel to the original film which tells the story of the ill-fated Montelli family, who move into the spooky building only to regret not having had a full property survey before buying (you know, one that might have picked up on the whole 'portal to hell' thing).Before you can say 'Captain Howdy', the eldest son Sonny (Jack Magner) is hearing malevolent voices through his Walkman, sporting a pulsating cranium (gotta love those bladder effects), and eyeing up his fathers rifle collection...Taking a very different approach to his Amityville predecessor, Damiani opts to pack in as much exploitative content as possible into his movie, throwing in sensationalist topics such as domestic abuse (the father, played by the excellent Burt Young, is a violent slime-ball), incest, and marital rape whilst also delivering lots of cheesy special effects, a little nudity (from the yummy Diane Franklin), some flamboyant camera-work, a touch of outrageous gore, and an Exorcist-style showdown between a Catholic priest and poor possessed Sonny.
The original is a slightly above average horror movie, while the prequel is really just pathetic.In Amityville II, we meet the previous owners of the house on Oceanview Drive.
"Amityville II: The Possession" is a much more frightening and solidly made horror-film than the original, but suffers from a weak script and a complete lack of continuity.
Damiano Damiani's 1982 prequel "Amityville II: The Possession" is a strange follow-up to the original (and generally well-regarded) 1979 "The Amityville Horror." It sets out to tell the story of the murders that happened in the house one year before the original film, and I will admit, this is an interesting idea, as the first film did establish the events as mysterious and truly frightening, but this film has a problem It doesn't seem to be set within the continuity of the original film, as so many details are changed.
After moving in, Sonny begins to receive strange, disembodied messages from the house through his headphones, and soon is apparently possessed by a demonic force that takes him over from time to time, forcing him to hurt his family and pursue a sexual relationship with his own sister.
After the force pushes Sonny to murder his family (that's not spoiling anything, by the way, we know it's going to happen), a local priest decides to help rid Sonny of the demon that has taken hold of him, and that's what the second half of the film focuses on.The acting is, well decent.
Also, while the first half of the film felt true to the original movie (by that, I mean in terms of tone and style), the second half of the movie takes a radical left-turn, and the last half-hour felt like a poorly-thrown-together cliff's-notes version of "The Exorcist" without all of the scary moments.
I'm pretty sure the script was written by Wallace after watching "The Exorcist", as there are some moments that are far-too-similar not to notice.Also, as I said before, the film doesn't have any real continuity with the original film, which makes it lose a point or two as well."Amityville II: The Possession" has a lot of problems, but it still works overall as a fast, creepy ride, and despite suffering a weak script, the film is a lot scarier than the original.
Thanks to the slick direction of Damiano Damiani, it is an enjoyable spook-and-puke show with pristine production values.A prequel, not a sequel, this is the "true" account of the family who were the first victims of the house and its cantankerous evil.The oldest son cannot resist the lurking fear so he murders his entire family before finally having his inner demon exorcized by a local priest.Bleeding walls, a trigger-happy Dad and a little incest spice up proceedings.AMITYVILLE 3-D was a wash-out..
The sequel is pretty much everything you want in a movie — if you love movies filled with horrifyingly sick moments of glee.Damiano Damianim, whose 1960's and 1970's western and crime output were marked by a streak of social criticism, directed this film from a screenplay by Tommy Lee Wallace (who not only played Michael Myers in the original Halloween, but would go on to direct Halloween III: Season of the Witch and the original version of It).The film is actually a prequel, telling the story of the Montellis, who are based upon the DeFeo family.
Damiano Damiani, who is better known for his spaghetti westerns, directs this prequel to "The Amityville Horror" which I found wildly entertaining and genuinely creepy.It's exploitation at it's finest: child abuse, spousal abuse, possession, brother-sister incest and gore are the shocking elements used here to show what a demon REALLY does to a family living in this house built on an ancient burial ground.Is it cheesy at times?
In the end I was glad I took a chance with 'The Possession', as while it might be your old-hat haunted house shenanigans it was still very well pulled off and surprisingly exploitive on the matter, especially the stir crazy final half-hour (which is weaker than the strongly gripping hour and feels like its from another entirely different film) that easily borrows ideas form 'The Exorcist' and goes ridiculously bombastic on the rubbery make-up FX.
Now this priest wants to exercise this demon out of him before it's too late to save his soul.Directed by Damiano Damiani made an interesting if very flawed prequel to the popular "The Amityville Horror" film.
This is a prequel to the original 'Amityville Horror' set back before the Lutz family moved in.
The real-life evils and the demonic possession mix well and create an eerie, sometimes disturbing, atmosphere.If you liked the original 'Amityville' that doesn't really mean you will enjoy this one, because they are really only similar in title and house.
This movie takes place prior to "The Amityville Horror" (before the Lutz's moved in and claimed the house was haunted).
The only complaint I have about this film is that it is too long....instead of ending relatively soon after the boy murders his family, it goes on and on with the priest attempting to exorcise the teen...and although this is where most of the special effects occur, you kind of feel bored because all of the characters you were introduced to are gone.
Perhaps it's the lore associated with the book, but the house actually looks like a place that evil spirits would run free, so simple shots of exterior windows carry an implied menace that are far more effective than the floating red eyes that served as scare tactics in the original.Of course, any review of this film would be incomplete if it didn't mention the unsettling creepiness of the incest subplot, which is unfurled in a seedy way that will test even the most acclimated horror fan.
He then proceeds to murder his family with a shotgun one night, but Father Adamsky is determined to exorcise his demons.While the original "The Amityville Horror" may be considered a classic by some, I've always thought that it was a little uneven and not nearly as good as it's reputation, so I didn't know what this prequel would have in store, but I was pleasantly surprised by it.
While nowhere near perfect, "Amityville: The Possession" is an very good horror movie that is much more engaging than the first film.
Loosely based on the book Murder in Amityville which told the story of the DeFeo's, the family who lived in the dreaded house before the Lutzes of the original Amityville.
Haunted house films share the challenge of making something that is often invisible interesting on a movie screen, and this one does a good job (like the original The Haunting) of including scenes in which nothing is really happening except people being scared, feeling a presence, or hearing a noise.
I think AMITYVILLE II works best as an unofficial sequel to THE AMITYVILLE HORROR (which a second poster announced during the movie's theatrical release, presumably in response to legal action), in which the Montellis are an entirely new family who have moved into the house and fall victim to the resident evil spirits, who possess the eldest son and make him reenact the events of 1974.
If you are a massive Amityville fan like me you will know that there is 11 Amityville films and in my opinion this is the best one.Amityville 2:The Possession tells the "true" story of the Montelli's, a dysfunctional Catholic family who arrive in the Amityville house two years before the Lutz's of the first film.
Local priest , Father Adamski, tries to rescue Sonny's soul and returns to the sinister Amityville house to face the demon.This film stars: James Olson, Burt Young & Rutanya Alda.Amityville 2 like I said earlier in the review is my favourite Amityville film in the entire series.
A loose prequel of the Amityville Horror with a different family moving in to the house and trying to deal with the awakening evil.