The Amityville Horror [Blu-ray]


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The Amityville Horror [Blu-ray]

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NEWLYWEDS MOVE INTO A HOUSE WHERE A MURDER WAS COMMITTED, AND EXPERIENCE STRANGE MANIFESTATIONS WHICH DRIVE THEM AWAY.






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    19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars Still shivering., September 27, 2000
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    Daisy Ghostly (Odense, Denmark) - See all my reviews
    This review is from: The Amityville Horror (DVD)
    Finally !. I've been waiting an eternity to see this very underrated ghostly gem in widescreen, and now at long last it's here. MGM may not exactly be known for superb DVD transfers, but this disc actually looks pretty good. (I had to have it no matter what though.) Brolin and Kidder make a great couple, and their acting is spot-on. They may experience some quite incredible things in their new home, but their performances stay believable throughout. -And guess what, I don't think Steiger is hammy at all !. It's too bad Hollyweird doesn't make that many haunted house movies anymore, because if you know what you're doing, they can be (relatively) easy to make. -Just keep it simple, and stay the heck away from CGI if you can. I saw "The Amityville Horror" in a theater when it first came out back in '79, and it scared me like few other films had before it. (-It also helped sitting in the balcony, getting all the action on the big screen smack right in the face.) The friend I was... Read more
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    21 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
    3.0 out of 5 stars There goes the Neighborhood!, October 26, 2004
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    This review is from: The Amityville Horror (DVD)
    The seventies were crazy times to be an American. We had just bailed ignominiously out of Vietnam, been chewed up by inflation, suffered throught the resignation of a President, brazened out the gas shortage, mobilized the Civil Defense and fought off plagues of flesh-hungry zombies stalking the Pennsylvania countryside, coped with reports of cannibalistic crazies terrorizing the badlands of Southwest Texas, slicing up tourists and wearing their faces like Halloween masks. And things were just getting started: as the decade waned, Americans had to deal with houses spewing blood and black tarlike goop, with red-eyed spectral pigs bothering good taxpaying New York homeowners, and worse---with Roman Catholic priests running around the dioceses, begging to perform exorcisms!

    Yeah, you guessed it: I've just awakened to chunky nuggets of ghoulish delight that lair deep down in the storm cellar of "Amityville Horror", which is an often reviled, albeit woefully flawed, fun little... Read more
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    6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
    4.0 out of 5 stars Amityville Horror, Long Island, August 25, 2010
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    Toni R. Tippin (Brookfield, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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    This review is from: The Amityville Horror (DVD)
    The first time I saw this movie, 'after reading the book, and under the impression it was based on a true story,' it scared the heck out of me. Not quite as scary as The Exorcist, but just the thought of going through what the Lutz's did, was enough to give me nightmares.

    Being raised by a very superstitious family, growing up with ghost and demon tales, made it all the more scarier.

    After reading feedback, especially the 1 & 2 stars, many people were put off by Amity's sound effects. IMO, the sound effects weren't over-done, nor placed in every scene like some claimed. Besides, what's spookier than sleeping in a big, old house, not long after murders were committed, on a dark, windy night, with roaring thunder and striking lightning?

    Considering the year Amityville Horror was released, I think it was well-done. Not my favorite, which is the reason I gave it 4 stars, but definately one of the top 20. It's much better than the remake, which I... Read more
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