Synopsis
A local priest tries to rid 112 Ocean Avenue of unclean spirits, but what he doesn't yet suspect is that teen Sonny Montelli has been possessed, body and soul, by a murderous demon bent on total destruction.
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Cast
- James OlsonFather Adamsky
- Burt YoungAnthony Montelli
- Rutanya AldaDelores Montelli
- Jack MagnerSonny Montelli
- Andrew PrineFather Tom
- Diane FranklinPatricia Montelli
- Moses GunnTurner
- Ted RossMr. Booth
- Erika KatzJan Montelli
- Brent KatzMark Montelli
Recommendations
- 58
The A.V. Club
Director Damiano Damiani opts for an approach that's simultaneously more shameless, tasteless, and entertaining than the original. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
There are some good performances here, by Jack Magner and Olson in particular, and some good technical credits, especially Sam O'Steen's editing. It's just that this whole Amityville saga is such absolute horse manure. - 50
The New York Times
The new movie starts out eerily enough but soon manages even to make sensation, blood, sex and suspense become a monotonous way of life. After a while, one doesn't really care what happens to this family of five who had problems when they moved in and whom we never do get to know very well. - 38
Slant Magazine
Supremely awful. - 30
Variety
There are actually two films meandering in this mess – one a second-rate horror flick about a family in peril, and another that is a slight variation on the demon-possessed Exorcist theme. - 25
Washington Post
From the outset, The Possession is calculated to make an alternately ludicrous and sadistic spectacle of the family's victimization. - 25
Miami Herald
With their flair for wretched excess, Damiani and screenwriter Tommy Lee Wallace make it hard to bear Amityville II in good humor. [28 Sep 1982, p.D6] - 20
Time Out
Clearly we are not meant to care when the eldest boy (Magner), who has been contacted by a demon on his Walkman and is gradually acquiring the rotten teeth and gooseberry eyes of the possessed, wastes the entire family. Awful.
