THERE are seven films that bear the Amityville name, which is more than they have for episodes of TeleFISHion.
By the time Amityville - A New Generation (World, 9.35pm) was released, everyone, especially the critics, had got thoroughly bored with the idea and had given up writing about it. Amityville 3-D (which starred Meg Ryan) made it into some of the film guides, but Amityville - A New Generation is conspicuous by its absence.
The film comes with the advertising line 'the image of evil', a reference to the star, an antique mirror given to a photographer by a crazy homeless man. You know the rest.
The mirror does strange things and soon death and general mayhem is released in the photographer's house.
It all began, if you care to remember, with the original The Amityville Horror, which was based on a best-selling book of the same name by Jay Anson.
The book did not sell that well, but the publicists did not want to let the facts get in the way of a good slogan. The film had a not-half-bad cast.