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The "Amityville Horror" grew from news reports and newspaper articles to books, magazines and television. The story would become internationally known and around the world, people recognized the name of Amityville. Most amazing was the fact that this terrifying story was absolutely true --- or so it read in bold print on the cover of the phenomenally selling book. But not everyone was convinced, even in paranormal circles. In fact, a few of them smelled something bad in Amityville!
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The Amityville Horror is available at all fine department stores! The soundtrack is ... available on 8 Tracks and LP's at your favorite record stores. Listen to the mastery that gave Lalo Schifrin an Academy Award nomination!
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While The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was made up, but billed as a true story, The Amityville Horror has a bit (but just a bit) more of a claim to reality than its legendary cousin! Is this "Real"? No. But here are the facts:
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Not content to remake an old, mediocre horror movie, this ''Amityville" takes its cues from current mediocre horror movies, too. This one is frightening only if you can't remember the last throwaway movie that leaned on all the same tricks. ''Amityville," whose makers swear it's actually based on the ''Amityville" book and a ''true story," employs the usual shorthand of nasty montages that stand in both for exposition and for the characters' points of view and move at express-train speed.
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The Amityville Horror story remains to this day the ultimate ghost story. With tales of demonic pigs, possessions, hauntings and ghosts it remains a favorite story to be told by the flickering light of a campfire, or in the dark depths of night at sleepovers.
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Co-star Melissa George was attracted to the role because, she said, "If you're going to do a scary movie, you might as well do The Amityville Horror, a true story, a famous book, a well-known moment in American history." A famous book, yes. A moment in American history, perhaps. But a true story? Not.
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