- Actors: Robin Thomas, Starr Andreeff, Allen Cutler, Jarrett Lennon, Rachel Duncan
- Directors: Steve White (II)
- Classification: 18
- Studio: Cinema Club
- VHS Release Date: 25 Sep 2000
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004WZVI
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 28,769 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Too good for cinema, Amityville Dollhouse went direct to video just like the previous three in this series of eight. But unlike any of the other sequels to the classic 1979 Amityville Horror, this one at least has an original idea. It's a little surreal, but resurrecting the house as a pint-sized plaything has the spark of ingenuity about it. If only something else in the movie did. The Martin family move into a newly built house (nowhere near the original incidentally). Father Bill (Robin Thomas) has warning dreams and nosebleeds, but still happily gives his daughter the dollhouse he finds in their shed of evil. Naturally, spooky things start happening. We guess the toy must be dangerous (without ever learning why) because: it smokes, plays with the lights, alters photographs, blows leaves about, and oozes mustard. All the family get a taste of its badness: little Jimmy finds a tarantula in the piñata, wife Claire gets the hots for son-in-law Todd, whose own girlfriend manages to set her head on fire in the hearth. And so on. At the end of the day, these incredulity-stretching franchise instalments at least have the fun factor of working out who will survive. If not that, then you can root for who you want to see splatted and how.
On the DVD: Amityville Dollhouse comes to DVD with … a trailer, stereo sound, 4:3 picture. Come on, what else did you expect?--Paul Tonks
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
The eight entry in the series is about a man and his family and woman and her kids moving togetter in to a new house wich actually isn't the Amityville house(!) However, the daughter in the family gets a dollhouse of the Amityville house. It has everything the original house had, including ghosts. Soon, odd, unexplained things starts to happen, such as dead insects coming to life, spotan fires, and one of the boys is haunted by the ghost of his father who becomes more decomposed and zombie-like each time he appears. And his evil plan is to kill the family and bring his son to "the other side"
An okay and entertaining sequel. When you look at other long-running horror sagas such as Friday the 13th and Halloween, the recent entries are pretty bad. But Dollhouse is a good film with a ok plot, decent effects and acting.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
overall an exceedingly scary film that id highly reccomend.Although the 18 certificate is a little high for it,it is remarkably entertaining if you enjoy films likeTHE RING,THE OTHERS,CARRIE AND LONG TIME DEAD.Filled with suspense and supernatural happenings this is a both spooky and enjoyable film.
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com:
36 reviews
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
It was pretty good but not very scary.
22 Aug 2005
Format:DVD
I liked it, I think it was better than some of the other Amityville movies, but as for horror movies, I wasn't scared & I have seen better horror movies than this. So if you are looking for something scary than this isn't it, but if you just want to see a good sequel to the Amityville movies, then this is the one for you. I would have gave it a 5 star if it would have been scary. But like I said it is a good movie & I liked it alot, it just wasn't scary enough for my taste.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
a dollhouse.... ok sure, why not
8 Oct 2005
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
The makers of Amityville Dollhouse found a great way to bridge the gap between the movies that actually took place in the infamous house and the ones outside of it by creating a look-alike of the house in miniature form. An architect builds a new house on a property but a broken down old Shed remains after completion. In the shed, the owner discovers a detailed dollhouse. Yup, you guessed it, he brings it in and presents the family with it and lo and behold, the strange happenings begin. It all would be old hat were it not for the fact that even in dollhouse form, the house is still quite creepy. Interesting camera angles recall the terror of the real house. The pace is good and scares come quick but often predictably, yett this is a pretty decent sequel more in line with the original feel than some of the other Amityville sequels. Nice work indeed.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Unwatchable?
28 Nov 2006
Format:DVD
I can't believe there are people who say that this movie is unwatchable. I came across this movie right at the beginning while channel surfing past UPN. It was brilliant trainwreck from the beginning! I don't mean to say that it holds a candle to greats like Showgirls or Battlefield Earth, but it was a rollercoaster ride of bad acting, bad effects, bad characters, and almost too many plot lines to count.
I could see the movie being called "Amityville: Dollhouse" if it were just about the dollhouse. Instead, this movie is about the dollhouse, the really really creepy stepmother/stepson relationship, the chimney, the bees (and bee demons), the zombie dad, the sibling and step-sibling rivalry, the teenagers-should-not-be-getting-it-on-in-the-shed-with-bees-around concept, and it seems like there were at least 4 other plots going on in the meantime.
The bee demons were awesome, with their mean looking battle axes and stuff. The faux-Wiccan hippie aunt and biker uncle were comic genius. The is-it-the-chimney-or-is-it-the-dollhouse mass confusion kept me on my toes and on the edge of my seat.
It was a comic horror thrillride that I want to go on over and over and over again.
I could see the movie being called "Amityville: Dollhouse" if it were just about the dollhouse. Instead, this movie is about the dollhouse, the really really creepy stepmother/stepson relationship, the chimney, the bees (and bee demons), the zombie dad, the sibling and step-sibling rivalry, the teenagers-should-not-be-getting-it-on-in-the-shed-with-bees-around concept, and it seems like there were at least 4 other plots going on in the meantime.
The bee demons were awesome, with their mean looking battle axes and stuff. The faux-Wiccan hippie aunt and biker uncle were comic genius. The is-it-the-chimney-or-is-it-the-dollhouse mass confusion kept me on my toes and on the edge of my seat.
It was a comic horror thrillride that I want to go on over and over and over again.
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