Talk:The Amityville Curse

Inaccuracies in the article

ALERT! : THE ARTICLE HEREIN REFERENCED, re "The Amityville Curse" IS REPLETE WITH FALSE INFORMATION.

EXAMPLES:

1)Tom Berry's link is to the wrong Tom Berry. Tom Berry was the director of the film, not a state governor born in 1879

2) The film is a Canada/USA co-production --50/50, not just Canadian. This is easily verifiable, all over the Web, and through the distributors

3) David Stein is in the opening credits as "starring David Stein", and is also so designated on DVD covers, etc., but Wikipedia insists on removing his name, under "Starring". They have done this numerous times.

Wikipedia "administrators" accuse those who try to correct this abominably researched article of "vandalism", and have "semi-protected" the page. What they are really protecting is their ignorant, unaccomplished, nasty undergraduate egos.

THE CO-PRODUCERS AND DISTRIBUTORS OF THE FILM, IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA, ARE BEING NOTIFIED.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.12.79.3 (talk • contribs) 4 Ocotber 2007

1) I agree, it should point to the page of Tom Berry|director, producer. I will make the change, if anyone disagree it will be reverted and will have to be settled here.

2) Give your sources, IMDB has it has a Canadian production.

3) "We" remove it because it just isn't very wikipedian to "add" your self. I honestly don't know the standard on these infobox is...just what is the right number of actors and actress that should appear on.

Finally, you behaviour has been pathetic so your credibility has received maybe too much damage...let's see what can be settle here.--Seba5618 23:29, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Possible innaccuracies

I believe only 2 points remain unsettled:

If the movie was a canadian or an american/canadian production. IMDB has it as a canadian production, but NYT has it as american/canadian. I emailed IMDB, in 2 weeks or so we will know if they make a correction or not.

If Mr. Stein should be included on the "starring" infobox. I just posted the DVD cover and only 2 names are there as stars, I will try to get the movie...

¿Any other opinions?--Seba5618 21:05, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

I believe the stars should be those listed on the DVD cover and no more. It is my belief that the NYT is more authorative than IMDB and thus I would go with that using an inline citation perhaps to substantiate the information and noting in the footnote that IMDB has a different view.--Golden Wattle ^talk 21:12, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

I haven't used the eofftv.com site before (Encyclopaedia of Fantastic Film and Television) but I thought this page ( http://www.eofftv.com/a/ami/amityville_curse_main.htm ) was well set out and well referenced giving it apparent authority. It states the film is Canadian. It also states the film was released in thatres int he US on 7 May 1990 - so I think we are wrong here at the moment. The page has several references down the bottom.--Golden Wattle ^talk 21:54, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

The image at Rotten Tomatoes shows the stars as Kim Coates and Cassandra Gava - different to the DVD cover uploaded. It gives the cast as Kim Coates, Cassandra Gava, Dawna Wightman, Helen Hughes, David Stein, Antony Dean Rubes. Its synopsis is: In the fifth installment of the "Amityville" series, six friends move into the infamous haunted home. Soon, their lives are turned upside-down when supernatural forces residing in the cellar wreak bloody havoc upon them.

The NYT link is at http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/2091/The-Amityville-Curse/overview --Golden Wattle ^talk 22:11, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Another site (The Video Graveyard) gives the movie stars as Kim Coates, Dawna Wightman, Helen Hughes, David Stein. - the date as 1989 rather than 1990 - I have seen that several times but I am pretty sure it was released in 1990 - and the country as Canada. The synopsis is: A group of friends buy a run-down old house in order to rennovate it and tragically find-out that it's possessed by (guess what?) evil spirits. A more detailed synopsis is at shade.ca and another at moria.co.nz. The latter also sticks to 1989 and Canada.--Golden Wattle ^talk 22:25, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Even more detailed synopsis at aycyas - now you can find out what the characters do. A more succinct comprehensive synopsis is at [1]. Amazon gives the VHS release date as July 1990.--Golden Wattle ^talk 22:33, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

The next person who describes Mr. Stein as "non-notable"(particularly the odorous kangaroo's crotch, in Canberra) will be served with a Notice of Intent to Claim Damages. Think we are bluffing? Try it.