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The Amityville Horror |  | Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Actors: James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger, Don Stroud, Murray Hamilton
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
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Rating:  205 reviews
Sales Rank: 16572
Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 117 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: MGMD1006790D
UPC: 027616909374
EAN: 0027616909374
ASIN: B0008191WO
Theatrical Release Date: July 27, 1979
Release Date: April 5, 2005
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Based on a bestselling, allegedly nonfiction book about haunted goings-on in a Long Island house (The Amityville Horror Conspiracy), this rather cheesy horror movie is more silly than unsettling. James Brolin and Margot Kidder star as newlyweds who move into the empty home and are gradually affected by the legacy of a murder committed on the premises. Rod Steiger is a priest who can tell what's up and gets dispatched in a rather ugly way. Director Stuart Rosenberg can't lift the action above a certain level of tawdriness, and the audience ends up watching the horror from a distance instead of feeling involved. In the wake of The Exorcist, this 1979 spooker seemed like a no-brainer knockoff--and still does. --Tom Keogh
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 classic horror film July 23, 2010
tess (ny)
just a classic horror film you enjoy sitting down to watch on a rainy night with a big bowl of popcorn
Not a bad looking vintage Blu-ray July 23, 2010
Frank A. Ritter
I just watched this film on Blu-ray. The BR is certainly an upgrade from the DVD. But if you are going to buy this BR and expect an awesome, crystal clear picture, then you are sadly mistaken. I bought it because this book and movie holds dear to me. It scared the crap out of me when I was a kid and it still gives me shivers. I would not pay the crazy price of $17.99 that Amazon is charging--that is ridiculous. Its worth about ten bucks or less if you can find it that cheap.
 Has some decent moments, but overall it's ineffective July 2, 2010
Eric S. Kim (Southern California)
I've seen some pretty bad horror films like Urban Legend and I Know What You Did Last Summer. The Amityville Horror isn't catastrophically bad; it's just very mediocre. Even if it does rely on atmosphere rather than standard jump scares, the visuals aren't very frightening nor are they disturbing to look at. Some of them are impressive (the blood running off the walls and stairs, the flies surrounding one particular room), but they all look as if the creators of this movie were trying way too hard to scare the audience back in 1979. The acting doesn't help, either. Margot Kidder is the only one in the movie who seems to give a good performance, while the others are either laughable or dull. The music was pretty tedious, but the main theme is its finest moment.
As an agnostic, I doubt that the alleged true events actually happened. The movie, which obviously exaggerates the events, doesn't help, either. Still, I did like the visuals and the main music theme, but overall, it's never scary and it's never effective.
Grade: C-
 The Amityville Horror March 9, 2010
Carl Manes
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
From the first shot in the movie, THE AMITYVILLE HORROR sets the pace with a perpetual sense of unease and subtle psychological terror that continues until the final shot. There is no point throughout the entire film where the audience is safe. Rather than forcing heavy make-up or special FX on the audience, it is the atmosphere built through the slow destruction of the characters' sanity paired with creepy events that garners genuine scares. There is no point at which the film clearly states that the events are actually occurring, and many of the clues leave the audience guessing as to whether the characters have passed their mental breaking point or whether the gate of hell has truly been opened beneath their new home. James Brolin offers one of the most frightening performances in the entire genre, truly becoming the character of George Lutz and walking the audience through his paranoid delusions, fear, and obsession. His crazed expressions and downward spiral into madness are more terrifying than any of the supernatural elements of the plot. AMITY also offers some of the most memorable horror scenes as well, most notably the scenes of the walls dripping blood and the priest that is forced out of the house by the disembodied voice screaming "GET OUT!!" While there are clearly elements that have been lifted from several other successful films from the 70s in this haunted tale, it is by all means and standards a classic in the genre, and becomes more and more interesting with repeated viewings. A family falls prey to a series of supernatural events after moving into a New England home with a sinister past...
-Carl Manes
I Like Horror Movies
The Amityville Horror January 27, 2010
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Amityville Horror is about a large house on the coast of Long Island where newly weds George and Kathy Lutz and their three children move into the house that they hope will be their dream house but it ends up in terror. Despite full disclosure by the real estate agent of the home's history, George and Kathy buy the house. George says, "Houses don't have memories," but they turn to their family priest Father Delaney who believes the house is haunted and performs an exorcism on the house. But the evil spirit in the house causes him to become blind and makes him very ill. George and Kathy with the help of another priest Father Bolen and a police detective they face the fears of the house, but not knowing the spirit is planning to possess George and then the children. "The Amityville Horror" has all the trappings of an excellent haunted house story. A very good supernatural thriller. If you enjoy being scared out of your wits, this movie will do it for you.
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