Mar 28 2009
AMITYVILLE: IT’S ABOUT TIME
Trading off the name.
PLOT
Jacob heads off to Amityville for a business trip and returns to California lugging behind an old watch that he found. The movie hints that he found it in the ruins of the hold haunted house, which doesn’t make sense in the context of the films. Anyway, he comes back to see his ex-girlfriend watching over his kids Rusty and Lisa. The clock starts to do weird things by attaching itself to the house, though no one seems to realize it. Rusty sees the image of a torture chamber and Jacob gets attacked by what he thinks is a neighborhood dog, only to discover that it was something darker. Their older neighbor tells Rusty that there’s an evil force and that it has to find a new home, realizing that it’s the clock.
TRIVIA
Originally known as Amityville 1992: It’s About Time, which was also listed on the video versions of the movie. When it was released on DVD, they changed the name to Amityville: It’s About Time, ditching the dated reference.
THOUGHTS
I remember the first time I watched this movie because there’s a scene involving Lisa, “taking advantage” of herself in front of the mirror. That was the first time I ever saw anything like that and even though I was only 12 or so, I was shocked that my parents let me watch the movie. The movie itself doesn’t seem to follow the rules of continuity. Andrea sleeps with Jacob and spends days in his house without mentioning anyone else. Then halfway through the movie she suddenly develops a boyfriend who misses her desperately and even comes for a visit. Plus it ignores the other Amityville movies. The films switched over to a plot involving items from the house that were sold at auction by the owners from the earlier movies. In this one, Jacob finds the abandoned Amityville house and brings home an elaborate antique clock. Uh, wouldn’t someone sell something that expensive. Of course this could just be another example of me nitpicking a horror movie. Oddly enough I really like this franchise, just not this movie in particular.
The Amityville movies are kind of like my guilty pleasure so I’ve seen most of them too many times to admit lol.