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The Amityville Horror

1979 · 118 min

A slow, creeping dread settles in as a family's dream home turns hostile, with eerie set pieces and mounting paranoia.

Directed by
Stuart Rosenberg
Genres
Horror
Tagline
For God's sake, get out!
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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Directed by
Stuart Rosenberg
Genres
Horror
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Tone
  • tensestrength 3 of 3
  • eeriestrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • bleakstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • family
  • obsession
  • fate
  • faith
Places
  • single country house
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror8
Humour1
Realism6
Romance2
Tension8
Darkness7
Complexity4
Emotional weight6

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The Amityville Collection

  1. The Amityville HorrorMovie · 1979 This title
  2. Amityville II: The PossessionMovie · 1982
  3. Amityville 3-DMovie · 1983
  4. Amityville: The Evil EscapesMovie · 1989
  5. The Amityville CurseMovie · 1990
  6. Amityville 1992: It's About TimeMovie · 1992
  7. Amityville: A New GenerationMovie · 1993
  8. Amityville: DollhouseMovie · 1996
  9. The Amityville HorrorMovie · 2005
  10. Amityville: The AwakeningMovie · 2017

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Genres
horror
Directed by
Stuart Rosenberg
Written by
Sandor Stern
Starring
James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger, Don Stroud, Murray Hamilton, John Larch, Natasha Ryan, K.C. Martel
Music
Lalo Schifrin
Cinematography
Fred J. Koenekamp
Runtime
118 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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