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The latest horror remake to signal the end of original ideas in Hollywood, there is, indeed, room for improvement where 1979's "The Amityville Horror" is concerned, but this shallow, empty-headed 2005 revamping misses that boat by a mile. The original, while deliberately paced in places, slowly but surely built a thick layer of dread over its story of a happy-go-lucky family that makes the wrong decision in buying a house where a family was once murdered and are subsequently terrorized by supernatural forces. While the DeFeo family murders really did occur, gruesomely carried out by the eldest son who claimed demonic voices told him to do it, the central premise of "The Amityville Horror" concerns a more allegedly true (read: likely hoax) case in which a family moved into the house and fled twenty-eight days later, claiming the place was haunted.
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The Amityville HorrorAlexa MosesA remake of a film that's based on a true story. A mother of three moves her family into a house where a series of grisly murders took place.EntertainmentMagpieFilmReviewhttp://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/10/05/lead_The_Amityville_Horror_0509120400_wideweb__375x500.jpg375500
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