Amityville: A New Generation

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Pfister</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producers.....Steve White & Barry Bernardi</B></div> <div> <B>Inspired by the Book "Amityville: The Evil Escapes" by John G. Jones</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Dramatis Personae</B></div> <div> <B>Keyes Terry...........Ross Partridge</B></div> <div> <B>Suki.....................Julia Nickson-Soul (China Cry, Rambo, Sidekicks)</B></div> <div> <B>Llanie...................Lala Sloatman</B></div> <div> <B>Franklin Bronner..Jack R. Orend</B></div> <div> <B>Dick Cutler............David Naughton (American Werewolf in London)</B></div> <div> <B>Jane Cutler...........Barbara Howard (Running Mates)</B></div> <div> <B>Pauli....................Richard Roundtree (Maniac Cop, Night Visitor, Shaft)</B></div> <div> <B>Detective Clark....Terry O'Quinn*(Pin,The Stepfather, 2, The Rocketeer)</B></div> <div> <B>Ray......................Robert Rusler (Sometimes They Come Back, Vamp)</B></div> <div> <B>Nurse Turner........Lin Shaye </B></div> <div> <B>Keyes' Mother......Claudia Gold</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Critique: There are numerous times when the Amityville house, zombies and other specters show up and the trip down memory lane parts are not disagreeable. The rest, however, is a combination of boring and confused. Certainly by now, filmmakers must understand that artists are not interesting. Particularly not painters or multi-media zombies. Unfortunately we're going to have to list this film under the reference list for Mimes/Dance Troupes/Performance Art/Post Modern Art Films. These films all feature an irreconcilable divide between celluloid happening and audience expectation. The audience rents the film in the belief that they will experience some compassion for the protagonists that will make their death tragic and give the viewer a three dollar emotional work-out. Since, however, real human beings hate performance artists like Keyes, Llanie, and Suki (or even people with names like Keyes, Llanie, and Suki) the viewer gets nothing. The experience is tantamount to watching a huge pot of water boil for someone else's tea. Some nice touches with the landlord at the end are for naught. good effects in particular grandfather being shot all the scary Amityville tropes critique of Reagan's family values, missing the point that struggling artists are often worse philistines than yuppies.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Plot Summary: A homeless bagman breaks into a car, waking a young artist couple, Llanie (skulptor) and Keyes (photographer), with the alarm. Meanwhile, artist/neighbor Suki's violent yuppy boyfriend Ray pounds on her door until Keyes intervenes. On their way to breakfast at the the coffee shop, "Ground Zero", Suki and Keyes bump into yuppy landlords Dick and Jane Cutler on a tandem bicycle. Over Cappuccino, they propose an art show in the apartment, but Dick will have none of it due to insurance concerns. As they chat, Keyes photographs the bagman, then exits to speak to him. The bagman captures Keyes' image in a bizarre hand-crafted mirror which has been in his family for generations. Keyes gives the bagman $10 for the photo, and the bagman gives Keyes the mirror, adding "Look beyond the surface! Look how beautifully the image is preserved." Artist/neighbor Pauli joins the group-meeting to present the art show and when Jane agrees, Dick gives in. Llanie arrives and Keyes is shares that what scars him is the "American family." For Suki: monsters in her room as child. Llanie finds the mirror which Keyes wants to dispose of, and Suki becomes fascinated by the mirror and borrows it. Alone, Keyes and Llanie mate. Ray wanders into Suki's studio-apartment in the middle of the night drinking Tequila. Cursing, "God damn paint slappin' Bitch!" he cuts up several of her paintings and the mirror becomes red. As Ray gazes into it, he watches himself decompose then sees himself slashed repeatedly until he runs into a wall and window, actually cutting himself fatally. The image of the original Amityville house appears in the mirror. Det. Clark arrives and hypothesizes that something must have startled Ray and he panicked. Keys is haunted by nightmares of the Amityville house, a large man sharpening a carving knife at table. As the mirror glows, Suki pokes at her wrist with the shards of her window. She looks in the mirror and is inspired to work. Llanie complains that Keyes has a fear of commitment. Keyes never met his father, who he says impregnated his mother at age 16 and left. Dick visits Suki, who has created a series of paintings of demons that she makes dance by means of a noose. She gives Dick her hand, dances with him and her painted demons, then they sit and drink. Dick admits he was always intimidated by Suki, they look in the mirror and make out, when Det. Clark knocks and wants statement signatures from Suki, a half-naked Dick, and an obviously amused Keys. When they leave, a translucent green demon appears and slashes Suki's paintings. The mirror beckons with the image of the noose and Suki's evil image smiles and encourages her to hang herself and Suki complies. Keyes has more dreams, the fat man sharpens at table, now with family and mirror in background, and is awakened by Det. Clark who phones him to identify a body. Keyes and Llanie immediately think of Suki and rush to investigate, but find nothing. At the morgue, Keyes identifies the homeless man, who had Keyes' name and address in his pocket, and decides to provide a proper burial, explaining to Llanie he was reminded of his father when he saw the corpse. Dick returns to Suki's and her paintings fall and swing, dropping the hanged Suki before him. Back at his place, Keyes discovers the name "Bronner" on his mirror, which Suki no longer requires, and visits the grave. Clark is there and tells Keyes he found the name Bronner through fingerprints. The police record on Franklin I. Bronner show he blew away his whole family in Amityville, NY 26 years ago. He claimed he was possessed by the Devil and pled insanity. He was brought to Danamore Asylum, then released when Reagan cut funding. Bronner's stone reads "Beloved Father of Keyes Terry". Clark calls it a mistake, but Keyes is irate and heads for Danamore to investigate. The administrative assistant reports that Bronner was a schizophrenic and opines such murderers pass it in their genes. Keyes asks to see Bronner's cell 207. The administrative assistant guesses that Bronner gave Keyes a mirror. Bronner's file shows that all he wanted from the house he inherited after the murders was the mirror. Keyes pokes around a bit and suddenly flashbacks himself as a child visiting Danamore, then he looks in the mirror in 207, becomes locked in and hallucinates that he is an inmate. Attendants enter, beat and drug him, calling him "Bronner". He receives a visit from his wife, who he recognizes as his mother, looks back and sees himself as a terrified boy. Next he is viewing it from the boy's perspective as the Bronner attacks his wife viciously. Keyes comes to himself and hurries out. Clark admits he suspected Keyes would remember these events. Clark accompanies Keyes home, explaining Bronner was 17 when he committed the murders and was likely unaware of Keyes at the time. Keyes becomes obsessed with a plan to create a "Thanksgiving scene" "American Gothic II", life-size cutouts of a family for the exhibit. He decides to keep the mirror for his scene. Llanie comes home from work to see a chilling life-size thanksgiving scene and Keyes prints normal photos of himself and each time it is a zombie face that show up. Keyes dreams of someone coming up on a family of diners who are shot with a shotgun beginning with the fat knife-sharpener and then he sees himself in the mirror as the shooter. He's admits he feels that he is destined do this in the future. Llanie encourages Keyes to work out his obsession in his multimedia presentation at the art show by killing his friends as part of the show. Pauli shows Keyes his commentary on life's fragility, a combination television-shotgun that will fire at an unknown point before 2001. The gun, Pauli indicates, is loaded. Finally, the stormy night of the big art show arrives and Keyes is not in good shape for his performance piece "American Gothic II" and calls Clark, leaving a message begging for help. The electrical storm knocks out the lights. Whilst searching for a flashlight, dead Suki appears to Dick in the cellar. She turns into a zombie and throws Dick against the fusebox, killing him and restoring the lights. The performance piece is announced. The mirror turns red again, Bronner calls Keyes and pulls him through the mirror into the asylum where Suki is living-dead in 205, Dick in 206. Bronner lies sleeping in 207, Keyes runs him through with an iron bar, Bronner laughs and congratulates him on fulfilling his destiny and throws Keyes back out the mirror. Clark receives Keyes' message as Keyes puts a shotgun to his chin. The group begins, Keyes hears Pauli sharpening the knife and marches in a trance toward the Thanksgiving scene with visions of the Amityville massacre in his head. Keyes aims at his terrified friends and shoots up the table. Clark and a police officer enter, Llanie calls, the mirror turns red, Bronner encourages Keyes to fulfill his destiny, but he shoots the mirror instead. The relieved critics applaud.</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>