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The Amityville Horror

6.3

Released July 27, 1979Runtime 1h 58min

For God's sake, get out!

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.

Genres

Horror

Production Companies

American International Pictures

Production Countries

United States of America

Finances

Budget: $4,700,000
Revenue: $86,432,488
Profit/Loss: $81,732,488

Stream

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Cast

James BrolinGeorge Lutz

Margot KidderKathy Lutz

Rod SteigerFather Delaney

Don StroudFather Richard Bolen

Murray HamiltonFather Ryan

John LarchFather Nuncio

Natasha RyanAmy

K.C. MartelGreg

Meeno PeluceMatt

Michael SacksJeff

Irene DaileyAunt Helena

Helen ShaverCarolyn

Amy WrightJackie

Marc VahanianJimmy

Elsa RavenMrs. Townsend

Eddie BarthAgucci

Hank GarrettBartender

James TolkanCoroner

Val AverySgt. Gionfriddo

Peter MaloneyNewspaper Clerk

Charlie WelchCarpenter

J.R. MillerBoy

Patty BurttGirl

Michael HawkinsNew York State Trooper

Richard Hughes2nd New York State Trooper

James DukasNeighbor

Baxter HarrisCop #2 at the House

Michael StearnsPoliceman

Jack KrupnickDead Father

Crew

Stuart RosenbergDirector

Benjamin RosenbergSecond Assistant Director

Edward E. VaughanFirst Assistant Director

Mary Ann NewfieldScript Supervisor

Sandor SternScreenplay

Jay AnsonNovel

Elliot GeisingerProducer

Ronald SalandProducer

Samuel Z. ArkoffExecutive Producer

Russell SaundersUnit Production Manager

Mike FentonCasting

Jane FeinbergCasting

Judy TaylorCasting

Lalo SchifrinOriginal Music Composer

Fred J. KoenekampDirector of Photography

Robert BrownEditor

Conrad E. PalmisanoStunt Driver

William CruseVisual Effects

Roger CreedStunt Coordinator

Dell RheaumeSpecial Effects

Stephen AbrumsMakeup Artist

Brian BruderlinStunt Double

Christine LeeHair Designer

Kim SwadosArt Direction

Robert R. BentonSet Decoration

Gene StoutGaffer

Rick SeamanStunt Driver

Bruce Paul BarbourStunt Driver

Mike BensonCamera Operator

Edward Morey IIIAssistant Camera

Maury HarrisSound Mixer

Christopher RamseyBoom Operator

John MurrayKey Grip

Donald B. NunleyProperty Master

Ken HallMusic Editor

Dee D'OrazioAdditional Editing

Dennis GallingAssistant Editor

Stanley FrazenAssociate Editor

John WilkinsonSound Re-Recording Mixer

Robert W. Glass Jr.Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Richard TylerSound Re-Recording Mixer

Aaron RochinScoring Mixer

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Reviews

_**That iconic creepy house on Long Island**_ A newlywed couple moves into a shoreline house on Long Island with their three little kids. The house was the scene of a mass killing a year earlier but the parents (James Brolin & Margot Kidder) didn’t think it mattered and, besides, it enabled them...