Tagline: What happened over the next 28 days has never been explained.
On November 14, 1974, police received a frantic phone call that led them to a grisly crime scene at the Defeo residence in Amityville, Long Island – an entire family had been slaughtered in their beds. In the days that followed, Ronald Defeo confessed to methodically shooting his parents and four siblings while they slept. He claimed “voices” in the house drove him to commit the murders.
One year later, George and Kathy Lutz and their children moved into the house thinking it would be their dream home. But shortly after settling in, bizarre and unexplainable events began to occur – nightmarish visions and haunting voices from an evil presence still lurking within the house.
28 days after moving in, the Lutzes abandoned the home, lucky to escape with their lives. Now, 30 years after the shocking real-life events that inspired one of the most popular horror stories of all time, return to the house that started it all: “The Amityville Horror”.
On November 13, 1974, Suffolk County Police received a frantic phone call that led them to 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, Long Island. Inside the large Dutch Colonial house, they discovered a horrific crime scene that shattered the landscape of the typically peaceful community: an entire family had been slaughtered in their beds. In the days that followed, Ronald DeFeo, Jr., confessed to methodically shooting his parents and four siblings with a rifle while they slept, claiming “voices” in the house drove him to commit the grisly murders.
One year later, George (Ryan Reynolds) and Kathy Lutz (Melissa George) and their children moved into the house thinking they’d found their dream home. But shortly after settling in, bizarre and unexplainable events began to occur — nightmarish visions and haunting voices from an evil presence still lurking within the house.
Confused and frightened by her daughter Chelsea’s cryptic interaction with an imaginary friend named Jodie, Kathy struggles to hold her family together as George’s increasingly strange behavior finds him spending days and nights in the basement of the house, where he soon discovers a passageway to a mysterious and gruesome “Red Room.” With lucid visions and evil voices swirling through George’s head, the house comes alive in a terrifying climax that finds him carrying out the spine-chilling events that would become forever known as The Amityville Horror.
Based on the true story of George and Kathy Lutz, The Amityville Horror remains one of the most terrifying stories ever because of one small fact — it actually happened. 28 days after moving in, the Lutz family abandoned the residence, lucky to escape with their lives. Now 30 years after the shocking events that inspired a best selling novel and one of the most popular horror films of all time, come revisit the house that started it all: The Amityville Horror.
The Amityville Horror is a 2005 American supernatural horror film directed by Andrew Douglas and written by Scott Kosar. It is a based on a novel of the same name by Jay Anson and the remake of the 1979 film, as well as the ninth installment of the Amityville film series, which documents the alleged experiences of the Lutz family after they moved into a house on Long Island which had been the scene of a mass murder committed by Ronald DeFeo Jr., who murdered six members of his family there in 1974.
The Amityville Horror opened on 3323 screens in the United States on April 15, 2005 and earned $23,507,007 on its opening weekend, ranking first in the domestic box office. It eventually grossed $65,233,369 domestically and $42,813,762 in foreign markets for a total worldwide box office of $108,047,131.
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The Amityville Horror (2005)
Directed by: Andrew Douglas
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Melissa George, Jimmy Bennett, Jesse James, Rachel Nichols, Jimmy Bennett, Chloë Grace Moretz, Philip Baker Hall, Isabel Conner, Annabel Armour
Screenplay by: Scott Kosar
Production Design by: Jennifer Williams
Cinematography by: Peter Lyons Collister
Film Editing by: Roger Barton, Christian Wagner
Costume Design by: David C. Robinson
Set Decoration by: Daniel B. Clancy
Art Direction by: Marco Rubeo
MPAA Rating: R for violence and terror, sexuality, language and brief drug use.
Distributed by: Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Release Date: April 15, 2005
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