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The Amityville Horror

The Amityville Horror

6,3 /10 (1,064 Votes)
1979 EN 118 min

Overview

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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Release date

27/07/1979

Votes

1,064

Popularity

5.1

For God's sake, get out!

Genres

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

118 min

Budget

$4,700,000

Revenue

$86,432,488

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Wuchak

Wuchak

2021-05-15

⭐ 7

_**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 …

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Sierbahnn

Sierbahnn

2026-05-01

⭐ 6

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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