Expectations should definitely be kept in check but I’m not sure what the hell one would be thinking when watching another entry in the lunatic Amityville series… this one with a title that relies on clock humor. The dad from Monster Squad brings home an antique clock harboring an evil entity from the Amityville house and sure as shit that time-telling nightmare begins altering time and reality in his household. So just to keep things straight: the house served as the harbinger of evil in the first three outings, followed by a lamp, a confessional booth and now a fuckin’ clock. I swear, these Amityville films are wild. Anyways, papa got his hands on the thing after tearing down the old haunted homestead for a development and now it’s fucking up his life. A neighborhood dog attacks him, bringing about a nasty injury and forcing his ex-wife to stick around the place. His extreme mood swings are concerning and the son’s elderly neighbor friend warns of the new evil in the neighborhood. Loud ticking and sketches of the old Amityville house do very little to terrify and son Rusty gets blamed for arson and vandalism. Mom’s new psychologist boyfriend is a chooch of the highest order and deserves anything bad that happens to him. Dick Miller makes a cameo, Stephen Macht has some fun and a whole lotta nothing happens as the evil plays around with everyone. There’s reflection groping, infected leg wounds, bad acting and the realization that the clock belonged to a French necromancer who ate his students… makes sense. It gets a little fun as it draws to a close and embraces its dumbass plot but it is a slog getting to that point. Nita Talbot is wonderful as the tough old broad who knows a thing or two about the supernatural and ends up getting impaled by a cartoonish stork that falls off of a diaper delivery truck. That’s a thing of beauty right there, man… and fear not, those standard Amityville plumbing issues make an appearance.
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