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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $12.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • Color • DVD-Video • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 27 July, 1979 DVD Release : 05 April, 2005 |
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The Amityville Horror description Based on a bestselling, allegedly nonfiction book about haunted goings-on in a Long Island house (The Amityville Horror Conspiracy), this rather cheesy horror movie is more silly than unsettling. James Brolin and Margot Kidder star as newlyweds who move into the empty home and are gradually affected by the legacy of a murder committed on the premises. Rod Steiger is a priest who can tell what's up and gets dispatched in a rather ugly way. Director Stuart Rosenberg can't lift the action above a certain level of tawdriness, and the audience ends up watching the horror from a distance instead of feeling involved. In the wake of The Exorcist, this 1979 spooker seemed like a no-brainer knockoff--and still does. --Tom Keogh |
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| No, this isn't "The Exorcist", but it deserves better than a 3.5 star overall rating. Only after buying a home that's seen multiple murders in the past,does protagonist Brolin finally come to realize that it's the land surrounding "Xanadu" that's been cursed for centuries. Oh, there's plenty of courage in fighting satan on his home field. Steiger tries first and after several severe setbacks, the psychiatric Priest is finally blinded,muted, destroyed.His young assoociate is wiser,withdrawing from the chaos, probably looking for a 1959 Edsel after a "devilish" dodgem ride down an otherwise ordinary freeway.Meanwhile, back at the ranch,Brolin and family are enduring 3 weeks of hell: strange noises, slamming windows, self opening windows, toilets gushing ink, doors crashing open from the inside, and a true satanic vision in an uncovered passageway,pointing downward, definitely not headed towards MacDonald's. In the end , Brolin and family finally surrender and flee, leaving satan to await his final defeat at Armageddon, and leaving the viewer certainly not ready for a good night's sleep. | |
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