Overview:
George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Victorian 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.| Status: | Released (1979-07-27) |
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| Awards: | Nominated for 1 Oscar. 8 nominations total |
| BoxOffice: | $86,432,000 |
| Screen: | Sandor Stern, Jay Anson, George Lutz |
| Productions: | American International Pictures |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
- 9274: James Brolin - George Lutz
- 20011: Margot Kidder - Kathy Lutz
- 522: Rod Steiger - Father Delaney
- 69494: Don Stroud - Father Richard Bolen
- 8608: Murray Hamilton - Father Ryan
- 95564: John Larch - Father Nuncio
- 106054: Natasha Ryan - Amy
Crews
- 13859: Stuart Rosenberg - Director - Directing
- 62719: Jay Anson - Novel - Writing
- 46000: Sandor Stern - Screenplay - Writing
- 30904: Samuel Z. Arkoff - Executive Producer - Production
- 69495: Elliot Geisinger - Producer - Production
- 69496: Ronald Saland - Producer - Production
- 9217: Lalo Schifrin - Original Music Composer - Sound
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Reviews
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_**That iconic creepy house on Long Island**_ A newlywed couple moves into a shoreline house on Long Island with their three little kids. The house was the scene of a mass killing a year earlier but the parents (James Brolin & Margot Kidder) didn’t think it mattered and, besides, ....
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This movie set a lot of ground for other horror movies and did a lot of heavy lifting. The overt religious themes might have aged poorly. But the character work and the effective use of the flashbacks and dream sequences make this movie still work as a vehicle for tension. It is a ve ....
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