The Amityville Horror (2005 film)

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The Amityville Horror

Promotional Poster for The Amityville Horror
Directed by Andrew Douglas
Produced by Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Bradley Fuller
Written by Scott Kosar, Sandor Stern (screenplay)
Based on the novel by Jay Anson
Starring Ryan Reynolds
Melissa George
and
Philip Baker Hall
Music by Steve Jablonsky
Cinematography Peter Lyons Collister
Editing by Roger Barton, Christian Wagner
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (USA)
20th Century Fox (France, UK, Germany, Australia)
Dimension Films (Italy, Spain, Argentina, Mexico)
Release date(s) April 15, 2005
Running time 90 min.
Language English
Budget $18,000,000 (estimated)
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The Amityville Horror is a 2005 horror film directed by Andrew Douglas. It is a remake of the original The Amityville Horror (1979 film), which was based on Jay Anson's 1977 novel The Amityville Horror. The film is ostensibly inspired by a real life murder case from November 1974 in Long Island, New York, in which Ronald DeFeo, Jr. shot dead six members of his family.

Tagline:

  • Katch 'em, kill em.

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Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

George and Kathy Lutz (played by Ryan Reynolds and Melissa George), along with their three children, move into what they believe will be their dream home on Long Island, New York. The house had previously belonged to the DeFeo family, where Ronald DeFeo, Jr. had murdered his parents and siblings with a rifle a year earlier. DeFeo had claimed that he heard voices urging him to commit the crime.

The Lutz family soon start hearing ghostly voices and witnessing apparitions, including the ghost of Jodie DeFeo. George is the most affected, and he eventually becomes a danger to those around him. The local priest is called in to bless the house and he fails, warning Kathy to leave the house before it is too late. At the climax of the film, George Lutz tries to kill the other members of his family but is unsuccessful, and they all flee the house.

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  • "Jodie DeFeo", who appears as a prominent character in the film, is a fictional character and was not one of the victims of the shootings by Ronald DeFeo, Jr. in November 1974.
  • The real life George Lutz denounced the 2005 version of the film as "drivel" and was suing the makers of the film at the time of his death in May 2006.[1]
  • William Weber, the defense lawyer for Ronald DeFeo at his trial in 1975, has since claimed that the story that inspired the original book was a hoax concocted between himself and the Lutz family (see The Amityville Horror for more details).
  • This was the last film marketed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer before its 2005 merger.
  • The house used as the Lutz home in the film was in Silver Lake, Wisconsin while other location work was shot in Antioch, Illinois.

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Amityville Horror saga

Amityville Horror (1979 original) | Amityville II: The Possession | Amityville 3-D | Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes | The Amityville Curse | Amityville 1992: It's About Time! | Amityville: A New Generation | Amityville Dollhouse: Evil Never Dies | The Amityville Horror (2005 remake)
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