Thursday 13 June 2019

The Amityville Horror (1979)



Newlyweds move into a large house where a mass murder was committed, and experience strange manifestations which drive them away.

Below par haunted house horror that delivers the standard shocks without any sense of coherence or logic; at least the movie has an honest tagline: "For God's sake, get out!"

Halliwell (no star): "Sub-Exorcist goings on, a shameless exaggeration of some of the alleged facts retailed in the best-selling book. A shocker for the uncritical."

Maltin*1/2: "...film is yawm-inducing rehash of old schticks; not even good for laughs, with Steiger hamming it up as local priest."


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