In this episode of "Before They Were Famous" we have a young Meg Ryan and Lori Loughlin. Meg Ryan is most known for her role in "When Harry Met Sally" and "You've Got Mail." In Amityville 3-D she's the daredevil friend that wants to test the evil spirits. You may know Lori Loughlin as Aunt Becky in the show "Full House" or you may know her more recently for being the most famous person busted for buying her kids way into USC through back channels. In this movie she is the daughter of the guy who just bought the Amityville house.
Amityville 3-D had a strong start but it was an unjust movie. John Baxter (Tony Roberts) is a natural skeptic. He works for "Reveal" magazine which is dedicated to exposing fake paranormal events. His skepticism and his ego lead him to buy the Amityville house. His coworker, Melanie (Candy Clark), was also a skeptic, but she sobered up from being a disbeliever real quick. Not only did she believe that the house was haunted she refused to A.) ever go back and B.) to listen to John's arguments about how she was just delusional. In other words, she was the exact type of person you look for in a scary movie--the smart I-can-take-a-hint type that's not going to dismiss the phantasmagorical event she just witnessed.
So why did she have to die and John live? Not fair. She should have been rewarded for heeded the paranormal signs and John punished for ignoring them. Instead the opposite happened.
That's not what made this a bad movie though. They strayed too far from the source material in favor of gimmicky special effects as though they were an adequate substitute for true dark fright. Furthermore, they liberally borrowed from "The Entity" which had scientist set up a bunch of monitoring equipment. Like Jaws, Amityville should've avoided the 3-D
Amityville 3-D had a strong start but it was an unjust movie. John Baxter (Tony Roberts) is a natural skeptic. He works for "Reveal" magazine which is dedicated to exposing fake paranormal events. His skepticism and his ego lead him to buy the Amityville house. His coworker, Melanie (Candy Clark), was also a skeptic, but she sobered up from being a disbeliever real quick. Not only did she believe that the house was haunted she refused to A.) ever go back and B.) to listen to John's arguments about how she was just delusional. In other words, she was the exact type of person you look for in a scary movie--the smart I-can-take-a-hint type that's not going to dismiss the phantasmagorical event she just witnessed.
So why did she have to die and John live? Not fair. She should have been rewarded for heeded the paranormal signs and John punished for ignoring them. Instead the opposite happened.
That's not what made this a bad movie though. They strayed too far from the source material in favor of gimmicky special effects as though they were an adequate substitute for true dark fright. Furthermore, they liberally borrowed from "The Entity" which had scientist set up a bunch of monitoring equipment. Like Jaws, Amityville should've avoided the 3-D