In 1974, a family got inhumanely killed. Just after a year a newly wedded couple decides to shift in the house but soon gets terrified by the evil lurking there.
10 September 1931, Toledo, Ohio, USA
14 September 1989, Palm Springs, California, USA
9 February 1996, Seal Beach, California, USA
15 October 1964, Miami, Florida, USA
23 October 1976, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
10 February 1997, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
15 April 1997
6 August 1976, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
8 January 1980, Augusta, Maine, USA
April 13, 2017
I would implore anyone who ever wrote it off as a soulless remake to dig a little deeper with a rewatch, because you might just be surprised at how great of a modern horror movie it truly is.
April 21, 2005
Never buy a house with a basement, and while you're at it, avoid old Dutch Colonials in which the previous occupants were murdered by an eldest son possessed by demons.
April 20, 2005
Nothing gets in the way of the rote staging, the ham-handed predictability, the feeling that you've been to this house, and yawned at these ghosts, once too often.
September 30, 2005
The problem with The Amityville Horror is that, in a very real sense, there's nothing there.
April 19, 2005
The Amityville Horror is a Xerox so tattered and faded that it's impossible to determine who's to blame for the overproduced mediocrity before our eyes.
March 10, 2009
This is a slightly better-than-expected remake of the 1979 film of the same name.
July 23, 2007
Less frightening than just unpleasant.
April 29, 2009
A really bad remake, for a bad movie...
December 28, 2010
A remake of the 1979 film, The Amityville Horror tries for a clasic sense of creeping suspense, but is sadly inept.
March 01, 2007
Against the odds, the remake rivals the original for sheer mediocrity.
April 21, 2005
A few lines get laughs, but the horror is standard fare, without a shred of innovation.
April 15, 2005
You'll want to get out of Amityville long before the Lutzes do.
