The Amityville Horror

  • Horror
7/27/1979
118
R

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.

Revenue:
$86,432,000
Budget:
$4,700,000

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  • Wuchak

    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) didnt 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 releas...

    May 15, 2021

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