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.
The Amityville Horror has generally received mixed reviews.
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By David Ansen (1,073) for Newsweek (1,534) on 09 Jan 1980
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By Stephen Godfrey (11) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 29 Jun 1984
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The Amityville Horror was released in 1979 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 8 reviews, giving The Amityville Horror (1979) an average rating of 54%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 67%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 30%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed The Amityville Horror a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 54%, The Amityville Horror is below the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1979, which stands at 60%.
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