
Eager to start afresh, the unsuspecting couple of Anthony and Dolores Montelli, along with their four children, move into their dream house in Amityville. However, right from the very first night, strange paranormal experiences shatter the Montellis' fantasy, as the restless spirits of the dead and the new home's dark secrets open the unfathomable black portal of hell. Now, the family's older child, Sonny, has become the perfect vessel of destruction, as the invisible demonic... (Full plot summary below)
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Eager to start afresh, the unsuspecting couple of Anthony and Dolores Montelli, along with their four children, move into their dream house in Amityville. However, right from the very first night, strange paranormal experiences shatter the Montellis' fantasy, as the restless spirits of the dead and the new home's dark secrets open the unfathomable black portal of hell. Now, the family's older child, Sonny, has become the perfect vessel of destruction, as the invisible demonic forces claim his soul. Can Father Frank Adamsky cleanse the infernal Amityville House?
Leave your thoughts about Amityville II: The Possession.
| The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsDirector Damiano Damiani opts for an approach that's simultaneously more shameless, tasteless, and entertaining than the original. |
| Q Network Film DeskJames Kendrickby the film's final act, the special effects technicians have taken over almost completely, turning it from a parapsychological drama of some merit into a more conventional latex freakshow |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThere are some good performances here, by Jack Magner and Olson in particular, and some good technical credits, especially Sam O'Steen's editing. It's just that this whole Amityville saga is such absolute horse manure. |
| The New York TimesRichard F. ShepardThe new movie starts out eerily enough but soon manages even to make sensation, blood, sex and suspense become a monotonous way of life. After a while, one doesn't really care what happens to this family of five who had problems when they moved in and whom we never do get to know very well. |
| Washington PostGary ArnoldFrom the outset, The Possession is calculated to make an alternately ludicrous and sadistic spectacle of the family's victimization. |
| Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)Bob BloomShould have torn down the house after the first movie. |
| Filmcritic.comChristopher Nullan atrociously made film, uninteresting as a sequel/prequel and unsustainable on its own |
| Creative LoafingMatt BrunsonAn extremely sleazy first half eventually gives way to a second part that plays like a theater-company version of The Exorcist. |
| Miami HeraldTerry KelleherClearly we are not meant to care when the eldest boy (Magner), who has been contacted by a demon on his Walkman and is gradually acquiring the rotten teeth and gooseberry eyes of the possessed, wastes the entire family. Awful. |
| SlasherpoolAndreas SamuelsonA dreadful sequel delivering more yawns and laughs rather than shocks and scares. |