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The Amityville Horror

1979 · 1h 58m · Horror · United States of America · Rated R (US)

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.

Directed by
Stuart Rosenberg
Written by
Sandor Stern
Based on the novel by
Jay Anson
Starring
James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger, Don Stroud
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