The Amityville Horror (1979)

My rating - 5/10

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A newly married couple ond their three children move into a new house that was the site of a mass murder. Not long after settling in they start to experience strange visions as the house decides they're not welcome.

I seem to like this more than many. Yeah it has problems, sure, but there's also some wonderfully creepy scenes that are still quite chilling. It has a good cast including James rolin, Margot Kidder & Rod Steiger who's on the receiving end of the movies most iconic scene when he's attacked by a swarm of flys and the house yells at him to "GET OUT!". Some of the acting is a bit over the top but I still find it fun. It's not the best of the nowmany Amityville films that's been made, that goes to Amityville 2 in my opinion, but it's a hell of a lot better than most of the newer entries in the franchise. If you're after some old fashioned haunted house horror then you can do a lot worse than this one.

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