The Amityville Horror

"What happened over the next 28 days has never been explained."

Apr 15 2005 R 1h 30m
Horror

George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Dutch colonial mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.

Plot

In December 1975, George and Kathy Lutz along with their three children move into an elegant Long Island house. What they don't know is that the house was the site of a horrific mass murder a year before. They decide to keep the house and attempt to keep the horror in the past, but are now haunted by a murderous presence. This is until, George starts to behave weirdly and their daughter, Chelsea starts to see people. What follows is 28 days of sheer, unbridled terror for the family with demonic visions of the dead. Based on the true story of George and Kathy Lutz, The Amityville Horror remains one of the most horrifying haunted house stories ever told - because it actually happened.

Written by

Scott Kosar, Jay Anson, Sandor Stern

Directed by

Andrew Douglas

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Radar Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Dimension Films, Platinum Dunes

Languages

English

Awards

2 wins & 4 nominations total

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122,293
Average Rating
5.9 out of 10
Metascore
33
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