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{{Infobox film
| name           = Amityville Death House
| image          = File:Amityville_death_house_poster.jpg
| alt            = 
| caption        = Film poster
| native_name    = 
| director       = [[Polonia brothers|Mark Polonia]]
| producer       = Mark Polonia
| writer         = 
| screenplay     = John Oak Dalton
| story          = 
| based_on       = 
| starring       = [[Eric Roberts]]
| narrator       = 
| music          = Tony Proffer
| cinematography = J.K. Milligan
| editing        = Mark Polonia
| studio         = Polonia Brothers Entertainment
| distributor    = Monogram Pictures
| released       = {{Film date|df=y|2015|02|24|United States}}
| runtime        = 75 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = 
| gross          = 
}}
'''''Amityville Death House''''' is a 2015 American [[horror film]] directed by [[Polonia brothers|Mark Polonia]], written by John Oak Dalton, and starring [[Eric Roberts]]. It was released [[direct-to-video]], and is the twelfth film to be inspired by [[Jay Anson]]'s 1977 novel ''[[The Amityville Horror]]''.<ref>{{cite book|author = Christopher Berry-Dee|title = Serial Killers at the Movies: My Intimate Talks with Mass Murderers who Became Stars of the Big Screen|url = https://www.adlibpublishers.com/serial-killers|accessdate = 28 February 2021|year = 2020|publisher = Ad Lib Publishers|isbn = 9781913543839|archive-date = 9 July 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210709191207/https://www.adlibpublishers.com/serial-killers|url-status = dead}}</ref>

== Plot ==

During the 17th century, a [[Folk healer#White witch|white witch]] named Abigail Wilmont moved to [[Amityville, New York]] after being run out of [[Salem, Massachusetts]]. When Abigail's magic failed to save the life of a sick child, she was blamed for causing the child's illness in the first place, and lynched on the outskirts of Amityville. In the present, a [[warlock]] called the Dark Lord sets out to avenge Abigail's death by using a [[tarot]] deck and a [[Book of the Dead]] to resurrect Abigail as a semi-corporeal entity that he unleashes on Amityville.

While driving back home from a humanitarian trip to Florida, Tiffany Raymond and her friends Aric, Bree, and Dig stop in Amityville to visit Tiffany's grandmother, Florence. Florence, whose physical and mental health have been deteriorating ever since she found a diary that belonged to Abigail, lives in Abigail's old home, which has the same half moon-shaped upper windows as [[The Amityville Horror|112 Ocean Avenue]]. As Tiffany and her friends tend to Florence and read the diary, they are spied on by Abigail, who has begun slaughtering the descendants of the villagers who killed her in the 17th century. The descendants include Florence and Tiffany.

After murdering five of the other descendants, Abigail snaps Florence's neck, and mesmerizes Aric and Dig into attacking Bree and Tiffany. During the struggle, Tiffany's blouse is ripped open to reveal that she has six breasts, a sign that she is a witch, according to the Dark Lord. Tiffany uses her own magic to bring Aric and Dig back to their senses, and together they attack Abigail, who fatally wounds Dig before being severely injured by Aric. Abigail proceeds to possess Florence's corpse, and then Bree. Abigail's possession causes Bree to mutate into a spider-like monster that kills Aric. Tiffany, having discerned that Abigail's power is tied to her diary, sets the book on fire; this causes Florence's house to explode, which attracts the attention of the passing Sheriff Steve McGrath. One of the diary's pages is prevented from burning up completely by the oblivious McGrath.

Since her diary was not completely destroyed, Abigail was not vanquished, and the film ends with the reveal that she has possessed Tiffany.

== Cast ==

{{Cast listing|
* Kyrsten St. Pierre as Tiffany Raymond
* Michael Merchant as Aric
* Cassandra Hayes as Bree
* Houston Baker as Dig
* Ken Van Sant as Sheriff Steve McGrath
* Danielle Donahue as Charlayne White
* Steve Diasparra as Wardell
* Kathryn Sue Young as Veronica
* Jeff Kirkendall as Zeke
* Yolie Canales as Florence Raymond
* Austin Dragovich as Gilly
* Todd Carpenter as Ernest
* [[Polonia brothers|Mark Polonia]] as Deputy Sullivan
* [[Eric Roberts]] as The Warlock
}}

== Reception ==

Tex Hula ranked ''Amityville Death House'' as the fifth worst out of 21 [[Works based on the Amityville haunting|''Amityville'' films]] that he reviewed for [[Ain't It Cool News]]. Hula noted that the film's poster and the sequence in which Bree (Cassandra Hayes) transforms into a spider-like creature were the only impressive things about it, and further opined that the film's acting was even worse than that in ''[[The Amityville Haunting]].''<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.aintitcool.com/reviews-the-amityville-murders-amityville-films-81696/|title = AICN's Tex Hula Reviews ''The Amityville Murders'' and ALL other ''Amityville'' Films! A Look into Madness!|last = Hula|first = Tex|publisher = [[Ain't It Cool News]]|date = 4 February 2019|website = aintitcool.com|accessdate = 28 February 2021}}</ref>

== References ==

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== External links ==

* {{IMDb title|tt4471212|Amityville Death House}}
* {{Rotten Tomatoes|amityville_death_house_2015}}

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