Amityville 3-D (also known as
Amityville III: The Demon) is a 1983
horror film and the third installment in the
The Amityville Horror series. It was one of a spate of
3-D films released in the early 80s. The film was directed by
Richard Fleischer and the script was written by
David Ambrose (under the
pseudonym William Wales). It was the only
Orion Pictures film filmed in 3-D.Due to a lawsuit between the Lutz family and
Dino De Laurentis over the storyline which did not involve the Lutz family,
Amityville 3-D was not called a sequel. However the film does make reference to the original
Amityville Horror story. The character of John Baxter is loosely based on
Stephen Kaplan who at the time was trying to prove the Lutz's story was a hoax.
Plot summary
After exposing a pair of con artists with his partner Melanie (
Candy Clark) in the infamous
112 Ocean Avenue house in Amityville recently divorced
Reveal magazine employee John Baxter (
Tony Roberts) purchases the house after being persuaded to by real estate agent Clifford Sanders (John Harkins). While preparing the house for John, Clifford goes into it alone and, hearing footsteps in the attic, goes upstairs to investigate and is locked in the room, where he is swarmed by flies and is found dead of a presumed heart attack or stroke by John. Thinking nothing of Clifford's death, even after Melanie shows him some photos she took of the real estate agent before his death which...
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