The Amityville Curse (1989)

Director
Tom Bery

Main cast
Kim Coates; Dawna Wightman; Helen Hughes; David Stein; Anthony Dean Rubes

Genres
Horror

Description
Five people spend the night in an abandoned house, the Amityville haunted house, and soon find themselves terrorized by assorted ghosts, venomous insects and ghostly apparitions.


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