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With The Amityville Horror, there is a lot to complain about. For starters, the move-in montage is tasteless, and the characters’ clothes rarely fit the 1974 timeframe. Also, the story itself is anti-climactic and borders on annoying when it depicts Kathy and George each giving the children cheap advice while the other listens from outside the doorway. What’s more, the inclusion of the sexy, over-confident babysitter (Rachel Nichols) who smokes pot, is damaging to the film; it only represents a reason to further excite the film’s core audience of teenage boys. Also, why is the phrase, “Catch ‘em,” spelled with a “K?” Finally, if mainstream Hollywood incorporates one more frantic search through a local library’s archived newspapers, someone needs to personally pen a complaint letter.
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MGM Home Entertainment’s box set, The Amityville Horror Collection, is interesting to watch because it represents a time capsule in horror film history. If The Amityville Horror personifies a media-generated hit than 1982's Amityville II: The Possession was certainly a product of the slasher/special effects craze that was sweeping the marketplace, most notable in the way the film mirrors Poltergeist. 1983's Amityville 3-D(... known as The Demon)was certainly a response to the 3-D craze that swept over North America in the early 1980s. Watching the entire trilogy, you see the beginning and the end of a horror generation - good, bad and ugly.
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As the story of the "Amityville Horror" became an international sensation, Kaplan was at work collecting evidence and materials about the house and the claims made by the Lutz family, Jay Anson, the Warrens and the media. Although convinced of the validity of the paranormal and supernatural activity, Kaplan was not convinced of the truth behind the Amityville case. While it was possible that a haunting could have occurred at the house, especially in light of the violent events that had taken place there, there was something not quite right about the accounts of the Lutz's. After some initial investigation, Kaplan became sure that a hoax was being perpetrated on the public and such a hoax could prove to be damaging for legitimate paranormal cases in the future. With that in mind, he became determined to show that the entire story was a farce.
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The early promise is lost by the last half, but giving all credit where due, The Amityville Horror Remake gets Two Stars out of Five. As Trey Parker and Matt Stone so boldly asked in Team America World Police: "Why does Michael Bay get to keep on making movies?" This cast with a little care, and a lot of script could churn out a hell of a movie. Maybe next time. Maybe Michael Bay will retire after directing "The Transformers Movie" and that upcoming Texas Chainsaw Massacre Prequel. Damn.
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In 1977, The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson was published. The book became an instant bestseller, and led to a top-grossing movie in 1979, starring James Brolin and Margot Kidder. More Amityville Horror books followed, written by different authors, which gave alleged accounts of the demonic entity still following the Lutzes, even after they had fled the Amityville house.
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The Amityville Horror is based on the true story of George and Kathy Lutz. In 1975 the young, working-class couple purchased an old home in Amityville, Long Island, at a bargain-basement price that turned out to be no bargain at all.
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