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The Amityville Horror (1. The Amityville Horror is a 1. American supernatural horror film directed by Stuart Rosenberg, based on Jay Anson's 1. It stars James Brolin and Margot Kidder as a young couple who purchase a home they come to find haunted by combative supernatural forces. The story is based on the alleged experiences of the Lutz family who bought a new home on 1. Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York, a house where a mass murder had been committed the year before.
It is the first film based on the Amityville horror. Upon its release in the summer of 1. The Amityville Horror was a major commercial success for American International Pictures, grossing over USD $8. United States and going on to become one of the highest- grossing independent films of all time. It received mostly negative reviews from critics, though the film has been contemporarily noted by film scholars as a classic of the horror genre.[a]The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score by composer Lalo Schifrin and Kidder also earned a Saturn Award nomination for Best Actress. Watch Under Siege 2: Dark Territory Online. A remake was produced in 2. In the early morning hours of November 1.
Ronald De. Feo Jr. Amityville, New York. One year later, George and Kathy Lutz, a young married couple, move into the property. George appears not to be strong of faith, but Kathy is a Catholic in name at least. She has three children from her prior marriage: Greg, Matt, and Amy. The couple turn to Father Delaney to bless the home, but Delaney encounters troubles in trying to bless the home, including a room full of flies, out of season; violent stomach sickness; and later, blisters on his palm when trying to make a phone call to Kathy at their home. As he continues to help the Lutz Family, Delaney experiences more strange events (his car brakes and steering malfunction) and frustrations (lack of support by his superiors in the diocese).
He ultimately appears to lose faith, becoming blind and having a breakdown. Kathy's aunt, a nun, comes by the house one afternoon, but becomes violently ill. George begins to be more sullen and angry over perceived cold in the house, and obsesses with splitting logs and keeping the fireplace stoked. Before Kathy's brother's engagement party one night, $1,5. Meanwhile, the babysitter watching Amy for the evening is locked inside a bedroom closet by an unseen force. Further unexplained incidents occur in succession: One of the two boys suffers a crushed hand when a sash window falls on it, and Amy has an imaginary friend, Jody, who seems to be of a malevolent nature.
Kathy catches a glimpse of two red, swine- like eyes outside the daughter's second- story bedroom window. Even the family dog obsesses over a secret room in the basement. George's land surveying business begins to suffer with his lack of attendance, and his partner grows concerned. His business partner's wife, very sensitive to the paranormal, is both repulsed and intrigued by the things she feels when at the house. Throughout the strange incidents, Kathy observes George's persistent waking up at 3: 1.
She also has nightmares in which she is given details about the killings of the home's prior family. Watch Breakin` All The Rules Online Breakin` All The Rules Full Movie Online. Research at the library and county records office suggest that the house is built atop a Shinnecock burial ground and that a known Satanic worshipper named John Ketchum had once lived on the land. She also discovers the news clippings about the De.
Feo murders, and notices Ronald De. Feo's striking resemblance to George. Finally, the paranormal events culminate one stormy night and drive the family to flee, abandoning their home and belongings. The final titles reads: "George and Kathleen Lutz and their family never reclaimed their house or their personal belongings. Today they live in another state."Production[edit]Conception[edit]Producer Samuel Z. Arkoff purchased the rights to the Anson novel by Jay Anson, which was a commercial success upon its publication in 1. Anson himself wrote a screenplay based on his work, but the script was rejected by Arkoff, and screenwriter Sandor Stern was assigned to write an entirely new script.
Initially, the film had been conceived as a made- for- television film. Casting[edit]. The house exteriors were shot at a home in Toms River, New Jersey after public officials refused to allow filming at the real home (pictured here). Brolin was hesitant when first offered the role of George Lutz.[6] At the time of his casting, the script was unfinished, and so Brolin obtained a copy of Anson's novel to read. Brolin started the book and read until two o'clock in the morning. He had hung up a pair of his pants in the room earlier and during an especially tense passage of the book, the pants fell to the floor. Brolin jumped from his chair in fright. It was then that Brolin decided to do the film, convinced that the material would make an effective film.[6]Kidder was cast in the role of Kathy Lutz after her breakthrough performance as Lois Lane in Superman the year prior.[6]Filming[edit]The on- location scenes of The Amityville Horror were filmed at a private residence in Toms River, New Jersey, which had been converted to look like the 1.
Ocean Avenue home after authorities in Amityville denied permission for filming on the actual location. Exterior scenes were also filmed in Toms River and Point Pleasant Beach. Local police and ambulance workers would play extras in the film, while the Toms River Volunteer Fire Company was used to provide the rain during several scenes. Indoor shots were filmed at the MGM studio lot in Los Angeles, California.[6][7]The film shoot was widely publicized in national media when the studio attempted to concoct stories of "unusual" occurrences on the set (not dissimilar from what was claimed to have occurred during the filming of The Exorcist).[8] According to Brolin, he and Kidder were both asked by the studio and the press, "'Is there weird stuff going on?'.. We'd have liked to tell them, 'Oh yeah, you wouldn't believe the stuff that happened yesterday—my lunch fell off the table in my lap.'"[6]Musical score[edit]Lalo Schifrin's musical score was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score, but lost out to the score for A Little Romance by Georges Delerue. It is sometimes claimed that this score was the one rejected in 1. The Exorcist, but Schifrin has denied this in interviews.[9]Release[edit]Publicity and promotion[edit]In promotion for the film's premiere, stars James Brolin and Margot Kidder visited the actual home at 1.
Ocean Avenue, accompanied by the press.[6] Brolin would later reflect that the actual home was much more "condensed" than the location where the film was shot.[6] Both Brolin and Kidder were skeptics of the claims made in the book; "I didn't buy that this really had happened," Kidder would say in a 2. During the press junkets promoting the film, when asked whether she believed the Lutzes' claims, Kidder purportedly turned to the producers, who responded: "We'll never tell."[6]Reception[edit]The Amityville Horror premiered in the United States on July 2. It was one of the most successful films produced by an independent studio at the time and was the most profitable AIP release since The Born Losers (1. The film grossed a total of $8. U. S. box office and was the second- highest- grossing film of 1. United States alone.
It was the highest- grossing independent film of all time until 1. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.[8]Though a commercial success, the film received generally negative reviews from critics such as Leonard Maltin and Roger Ebert, the latter describing it as "dreary and terminally depressing".[1. Based on 2. 8 reviews, the film has a 2. Rotten Tomatoes with the consensus: "Dull and disappointing, the best that can be said for The Amityville Horror is that it set a low bar for its many sequels and remakes."[1. The film resulted in several lawsuits.[1. In a 2. 01. 2 retrospective on the film, historian James F.