Amityville: A New Generation

5/22/2026

**_The setting switches to the Arts District and an artifact from the Dutch Colonial house_** This was the seventh of eight “Amityville” movies released from 1979-1997. Only the first three were theatrically released. The fourth one was made-for-television and the next four went direct-to-video. What sets this installment apart is the milieu noted above. Like Tommy Lee Jones’ “Broken Vows” from six years earlier, the movie focuses on artists and their studios in the heart of the big city. The city is never specified, but it has to be West Chelsea on the West Side of Manhattan, although the flick was shot in Los Angeles (and obviously so in a scene or two). Julia Nickson and Richard Roundtree happen to play two of the artists. I find the setting interesting because I had a couple of f