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.
The Amityville Horror has generally received mixed reviews.
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The Amityville Horror was released in 2005 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 726 reviews, giving The Amityville Horror (2005) an average rating of 56%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 60%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 48%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with The Amityville Horror than critics were.
With a score of 56%, The Amityville Horror is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2005, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 2005 with similar scores include films like Transporter 2, Derailed and D.E.B.S..
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