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January 24, 2005
The Amityville Horror (1979)
Not much to say about The Amityville Horror, which purports to show the 20-day house haunting. The scares are pretty much a combination of open windows and breezes mixed in with false alarms. Basically, it shows no imagination whatsoever, and while I'm sure the filmmakers excuse this as sticking with the source material, the source material is FAR from what resulted on celluloid. Entire subplots never even happened. And while the bleeding walls were neat, the floating head in the basement was incredibly lame, like a lame-ass effect from an old genie movie. Ugh. Avoid this Shining-Meets-Exorcist rip-off at all costs.
1.5 stars / 4 stars
Posted by nick at January 24, 2005 07:53 PM