The demonic force inhabiting the most infamous house in Long Island manages to escape during a massive exorcism by transferring itself into an ugly-ass antique lamp. An Amityville yard sale allows said lamp to make its way to California as a gag gift from one sister to another. New owner, Alice Leacock, watches on in terror as various household devices bring about death and misfortune to whichever poor sap is unfortunate enough to be targeted. Bad news for Alice’s daughter (Patty f’n Duke) who has just moved in with her kids following the death of her husband. The youngest daughter gets her ass manipulated as the evil takes the form of her deeply-missed papa. Bad things happen. Eldest daughter Amanda (the always welcome Zoe Trilling) is hawt in a Linda Hamilton kinda way and Fredric Lehne shows up as one of the priests who exorcised the damn thing, survived an attack and has tracked the evil down to the other side of the country. Infected fingers, teapot scaldings, toasted pet birds, a possessed chainsaw, a garbage disposal mutilation, melting phones, those classic Amityville plumbing issues and a power cord strangulation all happen in the short time the lamp claims residence in the California home. Yes it’s a little boring and silly as shit (I mean, the visualization of evil is excessive glowing) but it’s also my first experience concerning a film with a malicious lamp and I’ll never hate anything that has blessed me with that plot.
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