Amityville 1992: It's about Time

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BGCOLOR="#FFFF99" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>Amityville 1992: It's about Time</B></div> <div> <B>(Clock/Possession)                                              5*****skulls</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>* Blood * Violent * No Strong Language * Sexual Situations * Nudity *</B></div> <div> <B>* Gory *</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>1992/Color/95 Min./Republic Pictures Home Video & Steve White Productions/Rated R</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director.............Tony Randel (</B><I><B>Children of the Night, Hellraiser II</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.......Christopher DeFaria & Antonio Toro</B></div> <div> <B>Music................Daniel Licht</B></div> <div> <B>Producer...........Christopher DeFaria</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producers.....Steve White & Barry Bernardi</B></div> <div> <B>Based on the story by John G. Jones</B></div> <div> <B>Inspired by the Book "Amityville: The Evil Escapes" by John G. Jones</B></div> <div> <B>Special Makeup Effects by Kurtzman, Nicotero, Berger EFX Group</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Dramatis Personae*</B></div> <div> <B>Jacob..............Stephen Macht (</B><I><B>King's Graveyard Shift, Trancers 4</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Andrea............Shawn Weatherly (</B><I><B>Mindgames, Shadowzone</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Lisa.................Megan Ward (C</B><I><B>rash and Burn, Encino Man, Trancers III</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Rusty...............Damon Martin (</B><I><B>Ghoulies II</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Leonard..........Jonathan Penner </B></div> <div> <B>Mrs. Wheeler...Nita Talbot (</B><I><B>Frightmare, Puppet Master II, Rockford Files</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Andy................Dean Cochran </B></div> <div> <B>Mrs. Tetmann..Terrie Snell</B></div> <div> <B>Officer #1........Kevin Bourland</B></div> <div> <B>Officer #2........Margarita Franco (Three Ninjas Kick Back)</B></div> <div> <B>Officer #3........William B. Jackson</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Critique: Despite general incoherence and a rather questionable premise, the film entertains and features strong performances by the entire cast. The linked ideas of destroying the clock which is keeping Andrea hostage in her relationship with Jake and ending the relationship underlines the importance of timing, and lends some point to the otherwise shaky story of a demonic clock that needs a home. The psychiatrist is hilarious and the possessed Jake and Lisa are scary. Jake's rotting leg is better than a lot of horror movies by itself. The reference to the historical fifteenth century alchemist DeRais is an interesting distraction that predictably and briefly goes nowhere and the dialogues independent of the sloppy thinking time motif feature strong writing and acting.  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Plot Summary: Mrs. Wheeler hobbles up to the Burlwood estates, a model housing complex, as a storm brews. Note the two lights on up above. A father comes home with an ugly antique clock that crossed the atlantic over two centuries ago. He sets the clock in motion. It came from a house that was torn down for the development. Mrs. Wheeler watches the house and transposes the obvious similarly to the Amityville place onto it. Jeff invites his previous flame, Andrea to stay. The antique clock seems to be working on something. The teenage son lets a dog in and the dog barks angrily at the clock. The lights go out and when he turns them off he sees the scene of an eighteenth century living room with the same clock. The father comes to the foot of the stairs and is strangely suspicious of what had happened. As Jake runs by Mrs. Tettman, he says Peaches should be on a leash. The woman follows him and Peaches attacks him viciously. Mrs. Tetman appeared to be directing the dog to attack. Young Rusty comes to play chess with Mrs. Wheeler who says "it's not the devil but the "real thing". Where it moved from is no longer. It is looking for a new home." Jake comes home from the hospital with still leaking stitches. Strangely, when they go to the Tetman house, the gash that Jake inflicted on the dog Peaches is completely missing. That night as the clock strikes 3:00 AM, the daughter Lisa is stuck in the living room with the clock. All her pounding isn't heard. What Andrea thought was Lisa turns out to be a black sludge. Rusty goes out for a walk and Peaches is found horribly killed. The next morning, a swastika is found on the garage door. The police think it might be Rusty that did it. Jake has in the mean time become immersed in his work a la Jack Nicholson in The Shining. That night, Andrea's friend shows up but is not well received by the family, and Jake's leg is not getting better. As a hilarious conversation between Jake and psychiatrist Leonard proceeds, the hedges are burned mysteriously. That night, Leonard is sitting in the kitchen and suddenly Jake is there. Jake mentions that though he's an architect, sometimes he gets the urge to knock buildings down. He then pulls out a Walther P38K, noting that the SS carried them. Jake asks if Leonard has had sex with Andrea and whether he was going to go for his daughter next, saying he can't allow that. Jake begins shooting. Lisa looks in the mirror and suddenly her reflection is running her hands over herself, causing an orgasm. Finally, traditional Amityville sludge starts to ooze. Andrea is starting to believe. Lisa comes down looking decidedly trashy and suggests that they not wait up for her tonight. It looks like all the bonding with Andrea's out the window. Rusty goes to Mrs. Wheeler and he describes the old room he saw transposed on their modern living room with a the Pentagram on the floor. She pulls out a picture and shows him the room he saw, saying it belonged to Gilles de Rais in France, fifteenth century. He had been a necromancer. He ate his student's flesh, receiving their youth so that he could live forever. Rusty says the clock came from Amityville. Mrs. Wheeler looks through some photographs of the Amityville house and begins to see what has happened. As Mrs. Wheeler is making her way to the Ammityville house, however, things start to work against her. Rusty arrives at Mrs. Wheeler's house unaware of her fate. He sees the picture from the Amityville house that sent her toward him. The cops show up there and pick him up. Jake is getting worse. He attacks Andrea but she manages to subdue him. Meanwhile Lisa lures a date Andy into some slime and is quite pleased with the screaming results. Leonard is back in the house taking a bath. This guy won't give up. His bath is interrupted as the tub fills with black slime and and something appears to be in the tub with him. At 3:00, Jake awakens to find himself tied up on the bed. Andrea goes down to Jake's model and sees a mock up of the Amityville house with all their names on headstones. She goes back to the room and sees Leonard's fate. The cops show up and though they knock they can't be heard from the outside. While Jake is kicking Andrea around downstairs, Lisa is molesting Rusty upstairs. Rusty manages to evade Lisa but Jake is harder to subdue. Andrea swings at the clock, but hits the wall, and back there an enormous clockwork has grown.</B></div> <div> <B> <IMG SRC="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/serve?bfmid=27276611&siteid=39400671&bfpage=static_468x60style1_" BORDER="0" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="1" NOSAVE > <A HREF="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bfmid=27276611&siteid=39400671&bfpage=static_468x60style1_" TARGET="_top"><IMG SRC="http://a408.g.akamai.net/f/408/1284/24h/image.netflix.com/NetFlix_Assets/affiliates/banners/S46860v1" BORDER="0" WIDTH="468" HEIGHT="60" ALT=""></A>  </B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>