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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the theme (and most of the rest of the score too tbh) is an absolute ripper. both this film adaptation and the og book have a strange history to me of both releasing right around the time of The Shining book and film respectively, and being relatively similar. feels like this would have more of a cult classic status if it wasn’t for The Shining, but now it just acts as this weird lackluster version of the same elevator pitch. Not bad, not good, just an old relic that’s still clinging onto relevancy via reruns on cable TV and a Ryan Reynolds-led remake, despite having its fair share of positive reviews on here, while The Shining has held onto and maintained its cultural relevance for over 40 years. idk I’m just fascinated by the legacy things leave. pretty interesting stuff I reckon. ah yeah, I didn’t love the film but whatever.
A real snooze, but you gotta start somewhere. Margot Kidder is very pretty in this movie