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Amityville Horror DVD

Like I said, it's the classics.

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Amityville Horror DVD

love the new one with ryan reynolds cause he's so yummy

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Amityville Horror DVD

burn down that house!!!!!!!

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Amityville Horror DVD

not too bad...I wish it wasn't based on a true story...it would be more enjoyable if you weren't thinking "omg this really happened!!!"

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Amityville Horror DVD

not too bad...I wish it wasn't based on a true story...it would be more enjoyable if you weren't thinking "omg this really happened!!!"

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Amityville Horror DVD

some creepy parts

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Amityville Horror DVD

yeah, but ya need a screamer to get a girl closer

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Amityville Horror DVD

Never seen it

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Amityville Horror DVD

I loved that movie

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Amityville Horror DVD

mmmmmmmaybe because I liked the book so much

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Amityville Horror DVD

The whole ghosts, spirits, and haunted house thing is O.K. when your a kid. For an adult to have to watch this silly film is the true horror. Rule no. 1: Any movie  with James Brolin in it is going to be bad.

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Amityville Horror DVD

it was good, the remake was scarier

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Amityville Horror DVD

the newest is tha best

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Amityville Horror DVD

Another great classic!

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Amityville Horror DVD

i liked this movie, i watched it when i was younger... so i was afraid to use the bathroom for a while

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Amityville Horror DVD

The original was awesome, the sequels and remake were so so

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Amityville Horror DVD

Apart from all the hoody-doody about this being a true story, this is a good horror flick.  Of course, us horror fanatics always have a thing for a haunted house, or demon possessed houses, and this is one bad house!  There's a fright around every corner, and then to have James Brolin as George start losing his cool and acting weird, you have a psycho thing comin' on!  Do I believe this crap to be true?  No way, but it makes for an enjoyable movie!!

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Amityville Horror DVD

The original version was excellent and the remake was good. I am still amazed how beautiful Margot Kidder was in the original. Definately one of my all time fave horror movies.....

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Amityville Horror DVD

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Amityville Horror DVD

Goofy film that's LOOSELY based on true events that coud have been so much better, and thankfully, the remake is.

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Amityville Horror DVD

I was actually naive enough when I read the book to think it might be factual (George Lutz, the James Brolin character, eventually admitted the whole thing was a total fraud; I believe he recently died of natural causes). I was intrigued enough to see the movie; in large part because I had heard they filmed a major portion of it in NJ. Big mistake. At this point in time, years after I saw it at a local drive-in, all I can remember about the movie is how excruciatingly boring it was, a boredom only occasionally relieved by the over-the-top histrionics of Rod Steiger, an otherwise excellent actor. If you just HAVE to see one of this wretched series of movies, see "Amityville Horror Part 2" starring the beautiful and sexy Diane Franklin (it also stars the ugly and unsexy Burt Young). Not that it's a less execrable movie, but as long as Diane is on-screen, it's certainly not boring.

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Amityville Horror DVD

Scared the living you know what out of me when I first saw it many years ago. this is based on an actual true event. excellent acting from James B and Margo K.

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Amityville Horror DVD

Absolute Rubbish

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Amityville Horror DVD

It started well but the ending is lame.

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Amityville Horror DVD

I like the "Amityville Toaster" better.

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Amityville Horror DVD

Pretty stupid.Most people would have "gotten out" pretty fast.When the "victims" are this obtuse in a movie-you can't identify with them and therefore it's hard to have any sympathy for their plight. This story was also supposedly "true",although the people who now live in that very house will tell you it's pure Bull.

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Amityville Horror DVD

It started well but the ending is lame.

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Amityville Horror DVD

The Amityville Bore is a more apt title...

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Amityville Horror DVD

Hard to believe it's a true story...

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Amityville Horror DVD

I have to give it three stars for the number of nights it kept me up after seeing it when I was twelve. Saw it again recently, and it's rather silly, but has some effective moments. The movie takes a documentary approach at the beginning, and then gets weirder (and yes, a little scarier) towards the end. The transformation of James Brolin's character from a no-nonsense father/husband to a whacked out, possibly homicidal father/husband predated Jack Nicholson's Jack Torrance (from The Shining) by one year. A few eerie sequences (the scene with the babysitter locked in the closet is pretty intense) but not enough to give this a higher rating.

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Amityville Horror DVD

Not as scary as people make it out o be.

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Amityville Horror DVD

Very scary and very creepy. You'll want to sleep with all the lights in the house on....

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Amityville Horror DVD

For its time it wasn't too bad. Against all the great horror movies it is pretty bad. The acting might be slightly better than average (MAYBE) but the story is just an old favorite... a haunted house. Vincent Price probably made 5 or more Haunted House the movies that were better and made 20 years sooner. Watch one of those if you want good entertainment. Watch this when you have already seen the good stuff.

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Amityville Horror DVD

I read the book and it scared me to death. I finished it one night about 1am and everyone was asleep. I had to turn off lights and walk down a dark hallway that seemed to be miles long. I could hear my heart beating. The movie was not good at all.

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Amityville Horror DVD

I watched this movie not knowing what to expect one night with a few close friends, I soon discovered one of the scariest movies I have ever seen. I rented it thinking I was getting a movie for a good laugh and then found myself hooked into the entire series of Amityville films. In this movie it wasn't the special effects that were scary it the story and the very subtle directing of Stuart Rosenberg. If you are looking for a scary movie "The Amityville Horror" won't let you down, the closer you watch the scarier it gets!

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Amityville Horror DVD

Very scary!

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Amityville Horror DVD

Really, really bad film. The older it gets the dumber it seems.

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Amityville Horror DVD

Based on a true story, with the actors and events, clearly the best Horror/Scary movie of all time.

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Amityville Horror DVD

I know that there has been all sorts of controversy surrounding this story, but I think the book as well as the movie are interesting. I think what makes this story so scary is not so much the green ooze dripping out of the walls or the appearance of hundreds of flies...but that this is based on some true events and what the Lutz Family has based on events that happened to them. This idea these evil spirits that inhabit this Long Island home has never been proven or more importantly, disproved...so I guess that is why when I watch this movie it does disturb me a little. The movie itself is a true haunted house classic that can be taken seriously or as a joke by whomever is watching it depending on your point of view concerning the events surrounding its creation. To this day when I pass by a gambrel style house with windows staring out from it's top attic, the first thing that comes to mind is that house in Amityville!

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Amityville Horror DVD

No, I don't believe it. Well, not anymore anyway. This film still terrifies me. The music and the house just send shivers down my spine. I read the novel which was better, but this is something of a classic-as far as haunted house movies go. What do you think. Please e-mail me at turkeystuffing@hotmail.com if you agree or disagree.

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Amityville Horror DVD

I am getting scared just thinking about it!

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Amityville Horror DVD

Who made this movie? This is like something I would have made in middle school. Despite the honest and rather good performances from James Brolin and Margot Kidder, this film just doesn't hold up. The scares are very mellow and it lacks a genuine feel. I feel no dread, no fright, no entertainment. Unless you count laughing at really bad effects. (Ex. Thost two Christmas lights outside the window that are supposed to be eyes? Give me a break.) The film itself is cheap looking. Like they had a budget but spent it on the caterer. As I write this I am racking my brain for a scary moment. A truely chilling part. There is none! This movie lacks something as far as a horror movie. THE HORROR! Where did it go? Ghost Busters had scarier moments than this. Over all this is not a scary movie, but a laughable attempt to score some quick cash on what was a very popular story at the time. Fun to laugh at though...

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Amityville Horror DVD

The Amityville Horror proves that you can make a movie out of a best-selling novel. James Brolin and Margot Kidder give excellent performences as the Lutz Couple. The movie was chilling and at times humorous.

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Amityville Horror DVD

The Book and The Movie trailer both say something like this: "It Was Supposed To Be The Perfect House But The Lutz Family Fled After 28 Days." This is where the similarities end. Perhaps if the movie had followed more closely to the book it would have been a more believable, and frightening film. Whether fact or fiction (only your supernatural beliefs can determine that, not a film or author influence) the movie succumbs to a Hollywood glossover. This was even quoted by the Lutz family on a recent History Channel special. The movie missed some good opportunites that were chilling in the book, such as the boys seeing a figure in white, a near possession by Kathy, and not capitalizing or providing enough detail on the hidden "hell" room in the basement. The room is an afterthought in the movie. The fictionalized Father Delaney becomes almost too silly a performance by Rod Steiger when he loses his vision. The DVD version of this film does add a chilling moment with a clear picture of Jody the pig at the film's climax. I could never make out the image before and it works well. Unfortunately it is only one of the few scenes that make this movie as chilling as it could have been.

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Amityville Horror DVD

Ah, yes. The seventies! Post Vietnam, pre-Clinton. A period during which, for a short time, the attention of that segment of the public which cares about such things was riveted by a house in Amityville Long Island, said to be inhabited by, amongst other things, a malign spirit which took the form of an outsized pig. When George and Kathleen Lutz (portrayed in this film by James Brolin and Margot Kidder)fled the house after 28 days with their children and the family dog, leaving behind all their possessions and refusing to re-enter the house to claim them, the story broke. First on the national news as a curiosity, then through the book "The Amityville Horror", written by reporter Jay Anson. The Lutz's story, to which they adhere even today, some twenty years after the fact, has been the subject of an ongoing controversy that still continues. It has been reported, falsely, that the story was "proven" a hoax. It has also been rumored, again falsely, that the Lutzes themselves confessed to making it up. The story is just as incredible, and just as shrouded in controversy and innuendo today as it was then. Whatever the truth, or lack thereof, of the story the Lutzes told Anson, the established fact is that around 4 a.m. one morning in 1976, 23 year old Ronnie Defeo took a shotgun and killed his mother, father, sister and two brothers as they slept. This is the starting point for the film. Soon thereafter, newlyweds George and Kathy Lutz move in, with George's dog and Kathy's three kids from a previous marriage to this nice house on the bank of the river which they picked up really cheap. It's haunted, you see. Flies swarm in closed rooms, black smelly crap fills up the toilets (I know, I know, but this happens when they HAVEN'T been used!), and red piggy eyes peer in through the windows. As if this weren't bad enough, the house also causes anyone affiliated with the church to vomit. Kathy's aunt, a Roman catholic nun comes to visit, becomes ill and has to leave immediately. She barely gets her car out of the driveway before she slams on the brakes and pukes out the door. This scene is great for laughs everytime, no matter how often you see the film. At least she leaves the property before she yakks. The concerned, intense priest who comes to bless the house, after he is attacked by flies and screamed at by a disembodied voice to "Get ooouuut!", vomits right in the driveway! Satan-2, clergy-0. Worse than all of this, though, is that George Lutz stops bathing and shaving and begins to resemble Ronnie Defeo. He also develops a strange affinity for the axe he uses to chop wood in a vain attempt to heat a house which always seems to be too cold. It begins to seem as if George may be under the influence of a force which will compell him to repeat Defeo's crimes. The film has it's moments, but they are few. There is a rather startling apparition, seen from George's point of view on the lawn, in one of the upper windows at the climax of the film (the videotape copies of the film are so poor and grainy that this vision can't be made out, but it is clearly to be seen on the dvd), and Kidder and Brolin play with conviction, but overall any feelings of creepiness are evoked not by any specific thing seen onscreen, but rather by the thought that all of this (or part of it, anyway) might really have happened. If you choose to disbelieve it, you're likely to find the film pointless, if occasionally amusing. Ralphing nuns aside, Rod Steiger as the overwrought Father Delaney, victimized by flies, phones that turn red-hot whenever he touches them, and falling statuary, makes the film at least worth fast-forwarding through for those who don't wish to sit through it in it's entirety (dvd's with chapter search are excellent for this!). He enlivens the proceedings whenever he appears onscreen. He rants, raves, screams and cries and generally acts manic, reminding us that the days of "The Pawnbroker" are long past.

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Amityville Horror DVD

Damn this movie is scary i can't even watch it alone during the daytime. It should definetely be at the top of the list. But the fact the house only haunted that one particular family is a little shady.

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Amityville Horror DVD

I was totally frightened when I saw this movie as a young boy. To this day, its images haunt my memory of one haunted house in Northern California. Obviously it was presented in a manner that succeeded to convey the story.

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Amityville Horror DVD

The movie is based on the book by Jay Anson that was believed to be a true story in 1977 when it was published. A few years after that, however, it was proven that it was a hoax. The movie is ok, but the book is really creepy - especially if you forget that the whole thing was a hoax. What is true, though, is that there was a murder in that house. Husband killed his wife and kids. The people that moved in there supposedly thought they didn't have a problem with the history of the house. Well, soon they realised that they did, and made up the whole "ghost" thing to get something out of it. There is a web site you can easily find that explains the whole hoax. It's still a good spooky story. The book's much better though.

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Amityville Horror DVD

This movie is very interesting because it is supposedly based on a real life situation, even though I'm not sure about the spooks haunting the house, but it was a good movie, keeping me on the edge of my couch. I gave this film a 5.

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Amityville Horror DVD

Watched it when I was a kid. Really scared me off at that time. Not sure if it still has the same effect if I watched it now as an adult.

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Amityville Horror, The (1979)

Amityville Horror, The (1979) receives an overall TopTenREVIEWS rating of 2.74 out of 4.00. It is ranked the #3,397 movie of all time, #33 movie from 1979 and #1,822 Drama movie of all time. The rating and ranking is based on an average of 56 critic scores, awards and other criteria. To see a breakdown of the movie ranking, read individual critic reviews, or see how other movies ranked, click on...

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