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Amityville Horror: Movies
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The new "The Amityville Horror" is a boo-scare spectacular. It's got more than enough instant ghoulific visions, more quick-moving shadows and more ear-splitting music swells than any decent scary movie needs. It's ... got a ghost of a little girl with stringy dark hair who looks like she just climbed out of a well. Which is the point. There's nothing this "Amityville" won't beg, borrow, steal from or fabricate in trying to make your neck hairs sit up and shiver. Read the full review
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''The Amityville Horror" is the latest cannibalization of a popular older horror film. But the movie that this remake is dining on wasn't fresh to begin with, so the new version appears to be suffering a terrible case of botulism.
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For those of you who enjoy the horror genre, Amityville will most likely do the trick. However, for the moviegoers who enjoy more substance than scares, The Amityville Horror will be yet another second-rate choice on horror rental shelves come late October. While this revamped version is an improvement on the original, it basically just provides a deeper means to fear the two quarter-circle windows that have burned themselves into everyone’s brain.
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