The Amityville Horror

1979

Action / Drama / Horror

42
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 32% · 47 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 52% · 50K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 48505 48.5K

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Director

Stuart Rosenberg Photo
Stuart Rosenberg

Top cast

John Larch Photo
John Larch as Father Nuncio
Eddie Barth Photo
Eddie Barth as Agucci
Don Stroud Photo
Don Stroud as Father Bolen
Peter Maloney Photo
Peter Maloney as Newspaper Clerk
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853.05 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 57 min
Seeds 9
1.79 GB
1920*1040
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 57 min
Seeds 16

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by fistofgonzo 7 / 10

Great atmosphere

What makes The Amityville Horror such a classic even to this day is its sense of tone. Minimalist music, jarring sound effects, and creepy sets do way more for a horror atmosphere than gore and gimmicks. I can't say I was engaged the entire time, but I can definitely see why this is such a revered horror classic.
Reviewed by Jack Smith - The King Of Horror 7 / 10

Decent Chiller

A decent chiller based on a sensationalised "True" Story. The film is very atmospheric and has genuinely chilling (yet not truly scary) moments. At Two Hours long the film does threaten to become a little dull at times but manages to hold you attention. James Brolin and Margot Kidder both give tremendous performances, but Rod Steiger is hammy as the priest. A solid, creepy, well directed movie well worth watching. The films astonishing $86 million box office taking is bizarre. The sequel AMITYVILLE II - THE POSSESSION (really a pre-quel) was even better. All the other sequels were terrible. My rating - 7 Out Of 10
Reviewed by ma-cortes 6 / 10

Effective chiller about a strange house located in Long Island that causes creepy goings-on in a family

This is the classic version about the infamous Amityville house with lots of screams and weird deeds in which a family falls into supernatural terror . The story starts with a grisly mass murder ; years later , a family moves to Long Island where is purchased a Victorian home , their house of dreams but they find only devilish horror and full of nightmares . Longtime ago, there occurred a grisly mass killing based on an allegedly real life occurrence in Amityville that turns out to be a haven for demonic forces . And now a possessed father (James Brolin) is plunged by demonic forces into supernatural attitude driving him to mistreat and beat the kiddies . The wife (Margot Kidder) begins experiencing frightening and vivid dreams of killings . Meantime ,the father is attempting to find out the bottom of events by ways of the cellar . While , an exorcist priest (a hysteric Rod Steiger who steals the show as scene-chewing ) tries praying to vanquish the malignant spirit , staggering from room to room with the doors mysteriously slam . And soon the poltergeists make their nasty appearance originating a lot of unusual rattles and creaks before deciding to utilize its powers to possess the father and attack the family .The film contains restless terror and great loads of gore and blood and usual poltergeists phenomenon caused by the curse and the usual ghastly shenanigans result to be the cracking pipelines , wall ooze icky stuff, flies swarm manifest as attackers, and doors suddenly slam , among others . It is produced with acceptable budget by Samuel Z Arkoff (AIP)and well recreated with high grade special effects that are frightening and horrifying to spectator . It's actually halfway decent terror movie that achieved big success at the box office and it will appeal to ghostly and eerie events fonds. The picture packs a colorful cinematography by Fred Koenekamp and eerie musical score by Lalo Schifrin that will be used in the innumerable sequels . The original ¨Exorcist¨ film (by Friedkin) spawned a wave of demonic possession movies that continues unabated today as ¨Changeling¨ (by Peter Medak), ¨Amytiville ¨(by Stuart Rosemberg) are two further examples of this sub-genre . Following a great number of clumsy, stupid sequels directed by Damiano Damiani , Richard Fleischer ,Sandor Stern ( screenwriter of Amityville), Anthony Hitchcock.. And the bad followings just go on and on attempting to cash in on the success of the first movie . However , recently is made a good new adaptation by Andrew Douglas with Ryan Reynolds (James Brolin role ) , Melissa George ( Margot Kidder character) and Philip Baker Hall (Rod Steiger), though this is a new take on from previous film, it's one of the highest earning horror movie of the last years and like the¨ Amityville ¨ original became a box office biggie . Rating : Aceeptable and passable .
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