Product Description

James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger. Unspeakable horror takes form on the silver screen and descends upon an unsuspecting family in a beautiful colonial house in Amityville and all with award-winning results. 1979/color/117 minutes/R.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #36840 in DVD
• Brand: TCFHE/MGM
• Released on: 2008-10-07
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Cantonese, English, French, Korean, Spanish
• Dubbed in: French, Spanish
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 117 minutes

Amazon.com
Based on a bestselling, allegedly nonfiction book about haunted goings-on in a Long Island house (The Amityville Horror Conspiracy), this rather cheesy horror movie is more silly than unsettling. James Brolin and Margot Kidder star as newlyweds who move into the empty home and are gradually affected by the legacy of a murder committed on the premises. Rod Steiger is a priest who can tell what's up and gets dispatched in a rather ugly way. Director Stuart Rosenberg can't lift the action above a certain level of tawdriness, and the audience ends up watching the horror from a distance instead of feeling involved. In the wake of The Exorcist, this 1979 spooker seemed like a no-brainer knockoff--and still does. --Tom Keogh