The Amityville Horror
Horror • R • 1979 • 1 hr 58 min
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James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger, Don Stroud, Murray Hamilton
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Comes apart at the end but it’s really good otherwise
Classic haunted house film, one of my favorites. It may be a bit cheesy but thats the fun of it. The house is truly evil and its a fun watch
Cheesy and fun haunted house movie. The acting was over the top in a good fun way. Be warned, it starts out very slow.
Wry creepy, very cheesy old school horror. This movie terrifies me as a kid. Now, it’s very dated but still a classic worth watching.
Really scary and powerful, but a tad slow and also shot like a softcore porn.
Feels like the blueprint for so many greats
It is a classic, and does hold up. But to me there's something missing. No real scares, just more of a tense thriller.
Does a great job at creating a chilling atmosphere, but there are a lot of sub-plot lines that just go nowhere.
Classic horror / haunted house! It loses its way a bit by the end but pretty remarkable when you think about it being almost 50 years old
Well-paced, classic horror with brilliant use of atmosphere; however, falls short with character development and an anticlimactic ending.
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George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Victorian mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.
Anthony and Dolores Montelli, along with their four children, move into their dream house in Amityville and are immediately plagued by a string of paranormal experiences. When the abusive Anthony wrongly places the blame on the children, Dolores recruits a local Catholic priest to exorcise the house.
To debunk the Amityville house's infamous reputation and take advantage of a rock-bottom asking price, skeptical journalist John Baxter buys the place and settles in to write his first novel.
After moving into their matriarch's gothic seaside mansion, the Evans family soon becomes host to an uninvited demonic force in the form of a mysterious lamp that once resided in the Amityville house.
After purchasing a property in Amityville, New York, Debbie and her husband invite three of their closest friends to help renovate. Immediately uneasy in her new surroundings, she begins experiencing shockingly vivid nightmares.
A hot-shot architect returns home from his latest business trip with a surprise: an ornate old clock rescued out of a soon-to-be-demolished mansion in Amityville, New York, that brings about a seemingly unstoppable demonic force.
Keyes, a successful photographer who lives at the border of Skid Row, notices a homeless man with a strange old mirror. Immediately struck by it for reasons he cannot explain, he convinces the man to sell it to him, soon behaving in increasingly erratic and unhinged ways.
Bill Martin has just finished construction on a picturesque new home for his family, but unknown to him, the previously barren property was once the site of the infamous Amityville murder house, which contains demonic entities with murderous sights on the family.
George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Dutch colonial mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.
Belle, her little sister, and her comatose twin brother move into a new house with their single mother in order to save money to help pay for her brother's expensive healthcare. But when strange phenomena begin to occur including the miraculous recovery of her brother, Belle begins to suspect her mother isn't telling her everything and soon learns they moved into the infamous Amityville house.
