5/10
tick-tock; time is messed up
5 March 1999
I like the story. I like the little tid-bits about a 13th century French necromancer (who later came to the famed Amityville house through an antique clock he owned). I even like the "it's about time" quote tie in to the title. BUT this movie just doesn't quite work right. Some images are cool (like how an old French room appears from flicking a lite-swith), but others are horrid (like oil dripping out of a bath-tub and a hand reaching up). some of this is to be expected, after all this is horror, but ...ugh... the ending is the beginnning all over again (like a Groundhog-Day meets Event Horizon and one time though is enough). And just trying to fathom why the clock would turn back to that time (1992 beginning of the story) is ridiculous. Why not go all the way back to 1979 and the original movie and/or story. Now that would have been something. Instead of the current house only being the Amityville house in visions and flashes it could have been the actual original house. And another thing, why Amityville 1992 (the year is not mentioned on the screen, so why not "it's Amityville time" or something less hokey, but more timeless? I don't know it's just kind -of-messed up.
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