Rotten
The problem with The Amityville Horror is that, in a very real sense, there's nothing there.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
The Amityville Horror
What happened over the next 28 days has never been explained.
2005 · 1h 30m · R
Horror
Directed by
Andrew Douglas
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The Amityville Horror
Overview
George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Dutch colonial 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.
Director and cast
- Andrew Douglas Director
- Ryan Reynolds as George Lutz
- Melissa George as Kathy Lutz
- Jesse James as Billy Lutz
- Jimmy Bennett as Michael Lutz
- Chloë Grace Moretz as Chelsea Lutz
- Rachel Nichols as Lisa
- Philip Baker Hall as Father Callaway
- Isabel Conner as Jodie Defeo
- Brendan Donaldson as Ronald Defeo
- Annabel Armour as Realtor
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
23%
Tomatometer
Rotten
A few lines get laughs, but the horror is standard fare, without a shred of innovation.
Rex Reed, New York Observer
Rotten
Never buy a house with a basement, and while you're at it, avoid old Dutch Colonials in which the previous occupants were murdered by an eldest son possessed by demons.
Chuck Wilson, L.A. Weekly
Rotten
Nothing gets in the way of the rote staging, the ham-handed predictability, the feeling that you've been to this house, and yawned at these ghosts, once too often.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Rotten
The Amityville Horror is a Xerox so tattered and faded that it's impossible to determine who's to blame for the overproduced mediocrity before our eyes.
David Ng, Village Voice
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