Amityville: The Evil Escapes

"From the creators of the original AMITYVILLE comes the most terrifying chapter..."

1989 1h 35m EN

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★4.6TMDB · 146

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After moving into their matriarch's gothic seaside mansion, the Evans family soon becomes host to an uninvited demonic force in the form of a mysterious lamp that once resided in the Amityville house.

“From the creators of the original AMITYVILLE comes the most terrifying chapter...”

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Cast

Patty Duke
Nancy Evans
Jane Wyatt
Alice Leacock
Fredric Lehne
Father Kibbler
Lou Hancock
Peggy
Brandy Gold
Jessica Evans
Zoe Trilling
Amanda Evans (as Geri Betzler)
Aron Eisenberg
Brian Evans
Norman Lloyd
Father Manfred

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Sandor Stern
Writers: Sandor Stern, Sandor Stern
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Shot for just $3.0M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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ERA

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37 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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3 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "The Amityville Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Sandor Stern, shot by Tom Richmond. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Rick Conrad. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Skip Schoolnik shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Patty Duke and Jane Wyatt and Fredric Lehne carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "From the creators of the original AMITYVILLE comes the most terrifying chapter...".

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The take

Sandor Stern directs. Tom Richmond behind the camera. Rick Conrad scores. Skip Schoolnik cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Shot for just $3.0M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
237 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Part of the "The Amityville Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Directed by Sandor Stern, shot by Tom Richmond. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Rick Conrad. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Skip Schoolnik shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Patty Duke and Jane Wyatt and Fredric Lehne carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "From the creators of the original AMITYVILLE comes the most terrifying chapter...".
9IMDB entry: tt0096808 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 9 themes, including "plumber", "halloween", "haunted house", "sequel".
11Released under 16 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Tom Richmond
Original score: Rick Conrad
Editing: Skip Schoolnik
Production design: Kandy Stern
Costume design: Jai Galati
Makeup / hair: Gandhi Bob Arrollo
Runtime: 95 min · 1h 35m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $3,000,000
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Amityville: The Evil Escapes (1989)

Part of

The Amityville Collection

The Amityville Horror film series is a series of American supernatural horror films centered on events in a haunted house in Amityville, New York.

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Sierbahnn2026-05-09
★ 4/10
This isn't great Nowhere as groundbreaking as its predecessor, this movie is a bit fast and loose with its internal rules and consistency, and it unfortunately makes it much worse that it would have to be. The core premise is solid, but it just does not stick the landing in any useful way, and flounders without real tension. The visuals have aged substantially too, of course, but even with all that, you can tell that there is a good and scary movie down there, somewhere, waiting to be discovered. It could have used another round or writing, I think.

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