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Title: The Amityville Horror (2005)
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Ryan Reynolds | ... | George Lutz | |
| Melissa George | ... | Kathy Lutz | |
| Jesse James | ... | Billy Lutz | |
| Jimmy Bennett | ... | Michael Lutz | |
| Chloë Grace Moretz | ... | Chelsea Lutz | |
| Rachel Nichols | ... | Lisa | |
| Philip Baker Hall | ... | Father Callaway | |
| Isabel Conner | ... | Jodie Defeo | |
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Brendan Donaldson | ... | Ronald Defeo |
| Annabel Armour | ... | Realtor | |
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Rich Komenich | ... | Chief of Police |
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David Gee | ... | ER Doctor |
| Danny McCarthy | ... | Officer Greguski | |
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Nancy Lollar | ... | Librarian |
| José Taitano | ... | Stitch | |
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 Film_Fan
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When it comes to horror, I have learned to degrade my aspirations. Regardless of what could be done in a genre that has no boundaries theoretically, I'm already satisfied if a movie manages to make me jump every now and then these days. In the first two thirds "The Amityville Horror" delivers just that, fast pacing and some pretty effective jumps by using some cheap shock effects. Since this is a remake it is forgivable that it doesn't come up with anything remotely new or original. There's the ever so familiar haunted house, Dad losing his mind, heads shaking à la Jacob's Ladder, weird shadows moving fast and making insect sounds and the more than overused spooky little girl (really, having such a kid in another horror movie is idiotic and didn't even make much sense in this particular movie). Still, all that makes for an uneasy atmosphere and there's one scene in the bathroom that's set up gloriously, toying cleverly with a classic childhood fear (going to the toilet in the middle of the night in a dark and spooky house).
So far the movie would get a straight 7 from me. Then somebody decided to add a background story, an explanation that's so silly and underdeveloped, it virtually ruined the whole movie (Ketchem, my ass). Characters start to act all weird (Kathy Lutz is a bit too patient with her raging husband, the kids go back and forth from being close to madness to feeling very comfortable in the house, Kathy continues to ask Father whatshisname for advice after he has run away from the house crying like a girl), which makes the whole third act seem as if it had been rewritten more than once and then edited into a mess. That's more than a tiny flaw and it keeps the movie from being anything better than a 6.