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The Amityville Horror

For God's sake, get out!

6.3(1,081)19791h 58m5

George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Victorian 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.

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Status
Released
Budget
$4.7M
Box office
$86.4M
Language
English
Part of The Amityville Collection · 10 films
  • halloween
  • haunted house
  • possession
  • long island, new york
  • paranormal
  • new home
  • exorcist
  • psychotronic
  • indian burial ground
  • newspaper article
  • pets
  • haunted

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United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Premiere Museum of Modern Art24 Jul 1979
    • TheatricalR27 Jul 1979
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical1510 Jan 1980
  • CanadaCA

    • TheatricalR27 Jul 1979
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical17 Jan 1980
    • Physical16DvD7 Apr 2005
    • Physical16Blu-ray, MGM / Black Hill / WVG24 Nov 2023
  • IrelandIE

    • Theatrical1525 Jan 1980
  • JapanJP

    • TheatricalR18+29 Mar 1980
  • NorwayNO

    • TV1827 Jul 1979
  • SwedenSE

    • Theatrical1527 Jul 1979

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The Amityville Horror was released on 27 July 1979.

Audience reviews

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  • W

    Wuchak

    5/15/2021

    7/10

    _**That iconic creepy house on Long Island**_ A newlywed couple moves into a shoreline house on Long Island with their three little kids. The house was the scene of a mass killing a year earlier but the parents (James Brolin & Margot Kidder) didn’t think it mattered and, besides, it enabled them to purchase the homestead at a much reduced price. Then strange things start happening. "The Amityville Horror" (19…

  • S

    Sierbahnn

    5/1/2026

    6/10

    This movie set a lot of ground for other horror movies and did a lot of heavy lifting. The overt religious themes might have aged poorly. But the character work and the effective use of the flashbacks and dream sequences make this movie still work as a vehicle for tension. It is a very good horror movie with a great cast and lovely direction and a legacy that you really can't deny.

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