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Amityville Horror, The (2005)

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Release Date: April 15, 2005
On DVD: October 4, 2005
Genre: Horror
Running Time: 100 minutes
MPAA Rating: Rated R for violence and terror, sexuality, language and brief drug use.
Director: Andrew Douglas
Writer: Scott Kosar
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Jimmy Bennett, Melissa George, Philip Baker Hall, Jesse James, Chloe Moretz, Rachel Nichols

On November 13, 1973, police received a frantic phone call that led them to a nightmarish crime scene at the Defeo residence in Amityville, Long Island - an entire family had been murdered in their beds while they slept. In the days that followed, Ronald Defeo eventually confessed to methodically killing his parents and four siblings with a rifle, saying "voices" in the house drove him to the massacre. One year later, George and Kathy Read more

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Grade: C- Yet another pointless remake comes to the silver screen, this time as a revisioning of "The Amityville Horror." Unfortunately, this "revisioning" is nothing more than a slight alteration on the original, the only difference being that it lacks any intelligence or depth. Replacing subtle creepiness with cheesy ghosts hiding in the corner of rooms, this is one you can avoid very easily. Read the full movie review

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