For God's sake, get out!
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.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and intimate.
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- classical in formformally daring
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- Wuchakon TMDB · May 20217/10
_**That iconic creepy house on Long Island**_ A newlywed couple moves into a shoreline house on Long Island with their three little kids. The house was the scene of a mass killing a year earlier but the parents (James Brolin & Margot Kidder) didn’t think it mattered and, besides, it enabled them to purchase the homestead at a much reduced price. Then strange things start happening. "The Amityville Horror" (1979) was arguably the best haunted house movie up to that point in time and was hugely successful at the box office, inspiring a gazillion sequels, remakes and documentaries. There are similarities to "The Shining" (1980): Both movies were based on books published in 1977, but the film version of "The Amityville Horror" was released a year prior to “The Shining” and was based on the supposedly true story of what happened to the Lutz family whereas Stephen King’s novel was purely fictional. The 2005 remake with Ryan Reynolds and Melissa George deviates even further from the book and is a brisker, more modern version of the story. Yet this classic version still works as a moody and mysterious drama with horrific touches. Unlike the remake, the movie takes its time to establish and
Read the whole review on TMDB - Sierbahnnon TMDB · May 20266/10
This movie set a lot of ground for other horror movies and did a lot of heavy lifting. The overt religious themes might have aged poorly. But the character work and the effective use of the flashbacks and dream sequences make this movie still work as a vehicle for tension. It is a very good horror movie with a great cast and lovely direction and a legacy that you really can't deny.
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Cast
- James BrolinGeorge Lutz
- Margot KidderKathy Lutz
- Rod SteigerFather Delaney
- Don StroudFather Richard Bolen
- Murray HamiltonFather Ryan
- John LarchFather Nuncio
- Natasha RyanAmy
- K.C. MartelGreg
- Meeno PeluceMatt
- Michael SacksJeff
Crew
- Stuart RosenbergDirector
- Sandor SternScreenplay
- Jay AnsonNovel
- Fred J. KoenekampDirector of Photography
- Lalo SchifrinOriginal Music Composer
- Robert BrownEditor
- Ronald SalandProducer
- Elliot GeisingerProducer
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