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The Amityville Horror (1979)

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  • Official Trailer
  • Trailer 1

Movie Info & Cast

Synopsis

Newlyweds and their three children move into a large house where a mass murder was committed. They start to experience strange, inexplicable manifestations which have strong effects on everyone living in or visiting the house.

Cast

  • James Brolin
  • Margot Kidder
  • Rod Steiger
  • Don Stroud
  • Natasha Ryan
  • K.C. Martel
  • Meeno Peluce
  • Michael Sacks
  • Helen Shaver
  • Val Avery

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Metacritic

38

The problem with The Amityville Horror is that, in a very real sense, there's nothing there. We watch two hours of people being frightened and dismayed, and we ask ourselves... what for? If it's real, let it have happened to them. Too bad, Lutzes! If it's made up, make it more entertaining. If they can't make up their minds... why should we?

Metacritic review by Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
50

Of all the questions raised by The Amityville Horror, the most vexing one revolves around the external range of a haunted house’s supernatural powers. Because while it makes sense for a demonic abode to slam windows shut on small children’s fingers, let loose with swarms of buzzing flies, and turn bearded wood-chopping fathers into homicidal paterfamilias, it’s not quite as clear why such a structure would have the ability to sabotage the brakes of a sedan driving on the highway, or to cause a woman’s briefcase, sitting on her car’s passenger seat, to magically burst into flames.

Metacritic review by Nick Schager
Nick Schager
Slant Magazine