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  • Actors: James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger, Don Stroud, Murray Hamilton
  • Directors: Stuart Rosenberg
  • Writers: George Lutz, Jay Anson, Kathy Lutz, Sandor Stern
  • Producers: Elliot Geisinger, Ronald Saland, Samuel Z. Arkoff
  • Format: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: Danish, Dutch, English, Norwegian, Swedish
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: MGM Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 22 Oct 2001
  • Run Time: 113 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005KFTF
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 13,838 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Based on the chilling best seller, this spooky study in psychological terror throws open the doors to your deepest, darkest fears!

Special Features
1.85 Wide Screen
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
DVD 9
French\Italian\Spanish
English
English
Region 2
Mono English\French\Italian\Spanish
Mono
Original Theatrical Trailer
Interactive Menu Screens
Chapter Selections
Danish\Dutch\English\Norwegian\Swedish


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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Great potential, run-of-the-mill outcome, 14 Nov 2005
By Budge Burgess (Kilmarnock, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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The film opens with a house silhouetted against the lightning of a thunderstorm, its attic windows gleaming like malign eyes. We hear shots, see flashes, perceive that murder and mayhem have taken place within. Four children and their parents, we learn, have been ruthlessly executed … inexplicably.

A year later and Margot Kidder and James Spader fall in love with this isolated, lakeside property. It's a very American house - colonial stylised, white wooden boards, hipped roof, three stories, and those windows looking out morosely on the world. The couple know the house's provenance, but are unconcerned - "Houses don't have memories".

Enter Rod Steiger, come to bless this house - we get the sounds of maliciously laughing children, see flies beating themselves against the window pane. The house is telling him to get out. Even the phone refuses to accept his incoming calls. This is exorcism in reverse - the self-possessed house drives out and drives off the priest. Steiger is left doubting his sanity … and denying the significance of his actions.

The family will soon begin to elaborate their own reactions to the house's claustrophobic atmosphere - he begins to tense up, to become over-familiar with an axe, to develop that thousand psychoses stare, she begins to feel she is being watched, their daughter develops an imaginary friend.

This is a film which strives hard to create atmosphere without ever really achieving any. The imagery of the flies is almost excellent, but this contrasts with the numbing effect of the insipid, annoying "spooky" music which is injected from time to time. Steiger has some good moments. Margot Kidder is outstanding as a woman whose growing doubts become concrete certainties.

But the direction seems a touch flaccid. We become trapped in the house when the better story is in the problems experienced by the Church - Steiger is a priest who is also a psychoanalyst, his young assistant has recently returned from Viet Nam where he has seen horror a plenty. This is a film which could have played with scepticism, doubt, rationalism, and religion, and instead it becomes dumbed down into questions of real estate and why the house has harboured so much evil.

Bad horror can be dreadful. Today's good horror is not necessarily all that good ten years later - horror seems to date faster than most genres. 'The Amityville Horror' was based on a supposedly 'true' story, and acquired a certain amount of gratuitous notoriety because of that. But the hoax is old news, and what was once a competent if cheesy film is now of more interest to the historian of the genre than to the fan of horror. An interesting movie, with some good moments and some worthy efforts by Kidder and Steiger - go for the Special Edition version because the extras are well worth it and turn a three star rating into a four.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The original and best, 21 Jun 2006
By Jackie Coupe "Facebook me!" (UK, Blackburn) - See all my reviews
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George Lutz and Kathy Lutz, recently married and buying a house together, Kathy has her kids from her previous marriage but George loves them and intends to riase them as his own. The house they view seems too good to be true, its huge, three floors, cabin to keep the family boat in and a potting shed.
They love it from the start.
The house has a past and they are aware of that, a young man slaughtered his family there in the night and later claimed voices told him to do it. Still, they move in because the house is far more than they could hope to ever afford had it not got a chequered past.
They are happy - settling in and getting the place decorated and such, the daugther claims to have made an imaginary friend, the troubling thing is that she says she used to live there and while it is a little unsettling the parents don't tend to treat it as serious.
Of the two boys one of them gets badly injured when a window previously latched falls onto his fingers, a priest calls to bless the house and is ejected by a venomous voice that advises him to get out - he falls really ill after trying to get his superiors to see that something really terrible was happening in that house and whenever Kathy tries to contact him her phone line gets fuzzy...
George is having a nervous breakdown, he seems ill and distant, Kathy's aunt, a nun, comes to visit and also has to leave the house suddenly, to be violently ill on her way home.
The house seems to have it's own life and seems hellbent on making the past repeat itself.
The best of all Amityville films made - atmosphere and scares that aren't as in your face as the remakes. Big scares don't always need to be obvious. Watch this before the remake, you'll be glad you did.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Amityville Horror, 9 Aug 2001
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This review is from: The Amityville Horror [VHS] [1979] (VHS Tape)
Fans of this francise will love the orginal, although the special effects maybe dated by todays standards you'll still be in for some shocks along the way... An all time haunted house classic, forget the haunting and the house on haunted hill, this is the house that even in the 80's will make it's 90's counter parts look pail and class less...
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1.0 out of 5 stars Please avoid
Don't watch this unless your life depends on it. I love horror-movies. I've seen all the Omen-films, Poltergeist, The Exorsist, The Ring, Ghost Ship, IT, The Shining, but this... Read more
Published on 25 May 2004 by Sissel Myhre

3.0 out of 5 stars The book might have been a hoax, but it was a good hoax
The last time I saw a story about the infamous house from "The Amityville Horror" on television I saw that the current owners had changed the telltale pair of quarter-moon windows... Read more
Published on 1 Feb 2004 by Lawrance M. Bernabo

4.0 out of 5 stars scary, scary, scary.
the other reviews say its hammy and cheap but all i can say is
that it and its sequel is very scary and gave me nightmares for weeks. Read more
Published on 18 Sep 2003

2.0 out of 5 stars Dated
This is looking very dated now and is very MILD horror.

I remember it from years ago and was great back then. Read more

Published on 30 Dec 2002 by anthcbrxx

3.0 out of 5 stars Classic Horror 70s-Style
Certainly, this movie deserves a place in the collection of all horror lovers, but it is far from epitomizing the best of the genre. Read more
Published on 1 Dec 2002 by Daniel Jolley

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