Estudios Churubusco Azteca
The De Laurentiis Company
The Amityville Collection
Amityville II: The Possession
If these walls could talk...They would shriek!
Anthony and Dolores Montelli, along with their four children, move into their dream house in Amityville and are immediately plagued by a string of paranormal experiences. When the abusive Anthony wrongly places the blame on the children, Dolores recruits a local Catholic priest to exorcise the house.
- Original title
- Amityville II: The Possession
- Language
- EN
- Country
- MX,US
- Budget
- $5,000,000
- Revenue
- $12,534,817
Wuchak
May 24, 2026 · via TMDB
**_Prequel to the 1979 film opts for giggle-inducing overkill_** The original movie had the confidence to take its time to build suspense and develop several characters with the eventual horrific happenings being subtle and effective. There’s a reason it was a hit at the box office. This one eschews all that for blunt happenings right out of the gate, like paint brushes hovering in the air to paint an illustration & message on the wall. The Montelli family is a stand-in for the real-life DeFeo family in which the eldest son, Ronald Jr., shot to death his parents and four siblings while they were in bed on Nov 13, 1974. The creators obviously conjured the fictional version of the family because of the several changes from historical events, which I won’t list. In any case, the family is the opposite of the Lutz family in the 1979 film. Instead of a sense of warmth, the father is abusive (Burt Young) and so the family is somewhat dysfunctional. There’s a spirit of ugliness, which is augmented by the second half of the film borrowing from “The Exorcist,” albeit in a nigh laughable way. That said, winsome Diane Franklin is a highlight. She was 20 years-old during filming playing the 16-17 years-old daughter. Some respectable viewers prefer the overtness of this one to the original, not to mention the grotesqueness, but not me. I lean towards it being a tactless travesty. It runs 1h 44m and was shot in Mar-May 1982 with exteriors done at Toms River in east-central New Jersey (the house) while the church is located 20-minutes’ drive north of there at Point Pleasant Beach. Interiors were shot in the studio in (of all places) Mexico City with the house explosion scene done southwest of the city in Parque nacional Cumbres del Ajusco. GRADE: D
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James Olson
Father Adamsky
Burt Young
Anthony Montelli
Rutanya Alda
Delores Montelli
Jack Magner
Sonny Montelli
Andrew Prine
Father Tom
Diane Franklin
Patricia Montelli
Moses Gunn
Turner
Ted Ross
Mr. Booth
Leonardo Cimino
Chancellor
Danny Aiello III
Removal Man 1
Frank Patton III
Police Officer 3 (as Frank Patton)
Anita Keal
Demons' Voice (voice)
Alice Playten
Demons' Voice (voice)
Roger Cudney
Prosecutor (uncredited)
Daniele Nannuzzi
Camera Operator
Franco Di Giacomo
Director of Photography
Ed French
Makeup & Hair Assistant
Damiano Damiani
Director
Dino De Laurentiis
Executive Producer
Jeffrey Silver
Location Manager
Dino De Laurentiis
Producer
Lalo Schifrin
Original Music Composer
Tommy Lee Wallace
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Sep 24, 1982
