The Amityville Horror
is a Great 70s Horror Movie with Evil Spirits and Freaky
Insanity.
The Amityville Horror is
supposed to be based on a true story. We question whether this is
indeed the case, but that doesn't detract from the value of this 70s
horror movie classic.
Review written by The
Zombie Master Lee
Roberts
September 16, 2006
Release:
1979 Written by: Jay Anson (Book), Sandor Stern
(Screenplay) Directed by: Stuart
Rosenberg
Starring:
James Brolin as George Lutz Margot Kidder as Kathy Lutz Rod Steiger as Father Delaney
From my youth I have
always loved a good ghost story. It is the eerie
feeling you get when hearing about a threat that is intangible. Add the
possibility that the story is true and you have a real nail biter on
your hands.
The Amityville Horror
starts with George (James Brolin) and Kathy (Margot Kidder) Lutz,
newlyweds in search of a house where they can raise there family. Lucky
for them, there is a large, beautiful house that sets right on the
shore in Amityville, New York. Even better, this house is available at
an impossibly cheap price. Of course they purchase
the house and move in.
Why
is the house so cheap? It seems that a year earlier a young man named
Ronald DeFeo brutally murders his entire family
while they slept for a reason that detectives cannot discover.
It doesn’t take too
long before things start getting really weird. As Father Delaney (Rod
Steiger) is blessing the home, he begins to feel that there is an evil
that is hanging around. The house commanding him to “GET
OUT” probably helped solidify his assumption.
George Lutz begins to get very
irritable and for some reason cannot get rid of a chill that haunts (I
know, bad pun) him even though he begins to huddle around the fireplace
constantly. Many things happen that should be a wake up call
for the Lutz’s including, but not limited to, a room full of
flies, a pig with glowing eyes, demonic voices there and here, visitors
that ring at the door and then disappear. Finally the Lutz’s
have had enough and leave every belonging that they have and run from
the house in the middle of the night.
I
have read Jay Anson’s book, The Amityville Horror,
and I have a hard time believing the validity of
the story being factual. Though I am not here to debate whether the
story is fact or hoax I will say that I have really only one problem
with it. It would not have taken me any where near a month to get the
idea to leave. I mean really. If the flies didn’t get me, the
first time I saw the pigs eyes glow you wouldn’t
have even seen my shadow lingering around.
The Amityville Horror
is a great haunted house movie. Sandor Stern (screenwriter) did a good
job at putting Jay Anson’s story to script and Stuart
Rosenberg (director) follows up well in putting it on film. The score
sets the perfect eerie tone that sets the
atmosphere early and keeps the viewer on the edge throughout the movie.
When you go out to purchase The
Amityville Horror
on DVD, look for the re-mastered widescreen version. The transfer is
excellent and the movie has never looked this good.
The Amityville Horror
has reached classic
status not only among the “ghost story” freaks but
among most horror freaks that I have had the pleasure of coming in
contact with - and I believe it has earned that status. Even though the
film is a little dated, The Amityville Horror
stills succeeds in what the film makers set out to accomplish. It still
gives you that creepy, eerie feeling that every good ghost story should
create. Questions
or comments about The Amityville Horror? Contact us!
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