The Amityville Horror
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. From TMDB
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60 of 141 · most liked firstTHE AMITYVILLE HORROR Directed by Stuart Rosenberg, this horror cult movie was released OTD in 1979. Great spooky soundtrack by the late Lalo Schifrin.
unlabelledView post →Any fans of the original 1979 horror film The Amityville Horror?
unlabelledView post →The Amityville Horror (1979) Directed by Stuart Rosenberg
unlabelledView post →Day 4/100 of Horror Movie Watches: *The Amityville Horror (1979) *Trick r Treat (2007) *The Exorcist (1973) *Curse of La Llorona (2019)
unlabelledView post →This movie is good because he goes back to save the dog and Margot Kidder is in this. Very autumn-y and I love how 70s it is. It’s a comfort movie of mine. #horror #filmsky My ★★★½ review of The Amityville Horror on @letterboxd: boxd.it/8AbyMN
unlabelledView post →RIP Lalo Schifrin, who composed some of the most iconic movie scores in history including DIRTY HARRY, COOL HAND LUKE and THE AMITYVILLE HORROR as well as this legendary, beyond-iconic TV theme: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5SY...
unlabelledView post →The massive hit THE AMITYVILLE HORROR was released OTD in 1979, the fifth and final major studio film during Hollywood's "Summer of Horror." Based on Jay Anson's 1977 bestseller, it was eclipsed only by MOONRAKER so far that year for opening weekend sales. Spawned 10 sequels.
unlabelledView post →Famous horror movie houses: Halloween (1978) Scream (1996) A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) The Amityville Horror (1979)
unlabelledView post →Rewatch: THE AMITYVILLE HORROR (1979) Takeaways: Never buy a house where a man killed his family. But if you do and an evil voice tells a visiting priest to get out, go with him. But if you don’t and blood starts dripping down walls and stairs, wise the f*ck up and leave. #horror #FilmSky
unlabelledView post →been in a real rough place ✨mentally speaking✨ The Teen made herself "a bowl bed" in the middle of the living room, and is humoring me by engaging in random acts of movie marathoning. we've done: The Amityville Horror (1979) The Princess Bride (1989) The Polar Express (2008) Groundhog Day (1993)
unlabelledView post →Idea for a movie: a doghouse shaped like the house in THE AMITYVILLE HORROR and it's also haunted. THE AMITYVILLE DOGHOUSE fuck. you know you'd watch it.
unlabelledView post →#Howl-A-Ween #MusicChallenge Day 15 : TV/Movie Horror Theme The Amityville Horror youtu.be/GB6BnTcSupw?...
unlabelledView post →Done with work, time for a horror movie! #6 of 300 of my #FavoriteHorror movies Tonight's randomly picked movie is... The Amityville Horror, 1979
unlabelledView post →RIP to a composing *legend* in Lalo Schifrin. Wrote the original "Mission: Impossible” theme and TV score along with Starsky and Hutch and movie scores for Cool Hand Luke, Dirty Harry series, THX1138, The Amityville Horror, Enter the Dragon, and Bullitt among MANY others. variety.com/2025/music/n...
unlabelledView post →One of Peele's inspirations for the film was a comedy bit by Eddie Murphy in his 1983 stand up film Delirious. Using The Amityville Horror as an example, Murphy joked that in horror movies, a haunted house is obvious, but the white family still move in. 2/46
unlabelledView post →What If The Amityville Horror But Every Five Minutes Randall From Clerks But Shittier Interrupts The Movie To Lie About His Weekend
unlabelledView post →I was scrolling through Tubi and saw a title that made me think "Huh, I didn't know there was a Spanish-language movie in the Amityville Horror Franchise!" Then I took another look and saw that there was a twister on the cover. Amityvillenado, everyone. I'm going to watch it now.
unlabelledView post →The Lutzes in The Amityville Horror. In the movie they’re just hapless and unpleasant. (And don’t even have the decency to get killed.) In reality, they exploited a horrible crime to try to turn a buck after an ill-advised real estate purchase and made a lot of people’s lives worse.
unlabelledView post →abruptly realised that "The Amityville Horror" more or less means "The Nightmare of Friendtown" and now i want to see that movie
unlabelledView post →Footage of the real Red Room from the Amityville Horror house. Unlike in the movie, there was a door to the red room. It was not hidden as we were made to believe. It’s been confirmed the room was actually a basement closet and known to the lutz family. #amityvillehorror #horrorsky
unlabelledView post →Tonight's movie - The Amityville Horror ( 1979) Managed to bag the @88films.bsky.social exclusive release limited to 1,000 units from evilbay for a silly low price 😁 #physicalmedia #horrorfamily #horrorcommunity #88films
unlabelledView post →On this day in 2005, The Amityville Horror made its premier in Hollywood, California. The real life George Lutz denounced the 2005 version of the film as "drivel" and was suing the makers of the film until his death in 2006.
unlabelledView post →watching The Amityville Horror aka the film where ghosts scare James Brolin until he looks like Mick Foley
unlabelledView post →Movie 3 - The Amityville Horror (1979) #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days #FrightClub
unlabelledView post →#NowWatching 📽️💀 The Amityville Horror (1979) #FrightClub
unlabelledView post →#NowWatching The Amityville Horror (1979) Well after checking out a doco series about Amityville figured why not rewatch the original film?
unlabelledView post →Christian Bale, AMERICAN PSYCHO Daniel Zovatto, THE POPE'S EXORCIST Lee Pace, BODIES BODIES BODIES Pilou Asbæk, RUN SWEETHEART RUN Ryan Reynolds, THE AMITYVILLE HORROR Nicholas Galitzine, THE CRAFT: LEGACY Simon Rex, SCARY MOVIE 3-5 Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, SPIRAL
unlabelledView post →If you don’t know about Rod Steiger, he was the prototype character actor who was in the background in everything (including Oklahoma, The Amityville Horror, On The Waterfront and In The Heat Of The Night), and was also cool as hell
unlabelledView post →#100HorrorMoviesIn92Days Day 64, Film 63 - The Amityville Horror Had a rough few days and only just back into this.
unlabelledView post →One of Peele's inspirations for the film was a comedy bit by Eddie Murphy in his 1983 stand up film Delirious. Using The Amityville Horror as an example, Murphy joked that in horror movies, a haunted house is obvious, but the white family still move in. 2/46
unlabelledView post →#BOTD 1920 Irene Dailey: American stage, film, and television actress. Five Easy Pieces (1970) The Grissom Gang (1971) The Amityville Horror (1979)...
unlabelledView post →My ★★½ review of The Amityville Horror on Letterboxd boxd.it/6BL86V #Horror #HorrorSky #FilmSky 📽️
unlabelledView post →And just at the end of the 70s we get the BEST haunted house movie EVER. No, not THE AMITYVILLE HORROR (which is great) but THE CHANGELING (1980) with George C. Scott. The last great horror movie of a decade that had so many. Holy shit. www.imdb.com/title/tt0080...
unlabelledView post →It's like the score for THIS movie tripped and fell into the score for the Amityville Horror and didn't quite get it all wiped off. #FrightClub
unlabelledView post →Here's the 1991 TV movie based on the Smurl haunting from CONJURING: LAST RITES. I watched this as a kid after reading the sleazy paperback. "True haunting" tales like this and Jay Anson's "The Amityville Horror" were 10-year-old Jason's obsession. My wife: Yeah. That tracks. 🤷 #conjuring
unlabelledView post →TRIVIA: ‘The Amityville Horror’ was the film debut of Chloë Grace Moretz. She did most of her own stunts in the film, despite only being eight years old. (IMDB) 🖤
unlabelledView post →THE AMITYVILLE HORROR (1979). I read the book and begged to be taken to see it. Not a great movie!
unlabelledView post →Take two on the #QP of a movie scene interpretation. “The Amityville Horror Red Room” in the basement, with the Demonic Pig. Harry the dog ran away and is still MIA. #JustBecause #SynthArt #GenerativeArt #AiArtCommunity
unlabelledView post →The Amityville Horror (2025 Movie Thread, #697), #Horror365Challenge (#586) #filmsky #horrorsky
unlabelledView post →Is Jay Anson’s The Amityville Horror scarier than the 1979 film? 🏚️👻 I'm breaking down the original 1977 documentarian novel, character dynamics, and key differences from the iconic movie adaptation. saexaminer.org/2026/08/24/t... #AmityvilleHorror #HorrorBooks #BookReview #BookSky
unlabelledView post →I was watching The Amityville Horror (1979) last night. Just moments after the iconic fly scene with the priest, a fly actually flew into my ear, buzzing away. I almost hit the ceiling, which isn't good when recovering from back surgery. #film 🎬
unlabelledView post →My whole family walking out of the theater felt not unlike the Freeling family walking to their room at the Holiday Inn in the movie's final shot. We were gobsmacked. We thought it would be fun Spielberg spooky ghosts. What we got was a movie that told The Amityville Horror to go sit in the corner.
unlabelledView post →Yesterday I made sanding progress with several models, and progress with my horror movie watching 🎉 Watched The Descent, The Amityville Horror (2005), and Jennifer's Body. My partner and I have been chipping away at Tammy & the T-Rex in episode-length chunks during dinner.
unlabelledView post →71. The Amityville Horror (2005) Director: Andrew Douglas #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days #HorrorSky #FilmSky boxd.it/blNHFh
unlabelledView post →David F. Sandberg is on board to direct a new The Amityville Horror film for Amazon MGM Studios. The Safran Company's Peter Safran and John Rickard will produce alongside Sandberg, while Ian Goldberg and Richard Naing wrote the screenplay for the reimagining of the original 1979 classic. #News
unlabelledView post →My wife @alisonstarlocke.bsky.social just made me turn off the lights so she can watch “The Amityville Horror,” and I said, “So you can watch this incredibly scary movie about mortgage fraud?” She also made me post this. But James Brolin is dreamy with that beard and mullet set.
unlabelledView post →Today on Patreon: Break out those cum gutters because we are caught in the grasp of the 00s horror remake trend with #TheAmityvilleHorror (2005), which…isn't as good as we remember. Listen/watch along as the film celebrates its 20th anniversary today!
unlabelledView post →14. The Amityville Horror (1979) 🎥 Stuart Rosenberg letterboxd.com/film/the-ami...
unlabelledView post →Double feature challenge theme: Based on a True Story! What movie do you pair with The Amityville Horror? #filmsky #horrorsky
unlabelledView post →Did not quite realize how quickly Ghostbusters (1984) came on top of The Amityville Horror movie (1979), or how many of its conceits were direct answers to Amityville stuff.
unlabelledView post →#nowwatching once again attempting the #31DayHorrorChallenge from nightmare on film street! today's prompt is 'Rad Remake'. my choice is The Amityville Horror (2005). i haven't seen it since i was a teen but i remember liking it #filmsky #horrorsky
unlabelledView post →Technically The Amityville Horror from 1979 is the first movie in the Silver Spotlight Films universe.
unlabelledView post →1975: George and Kathy Lutz move into a house in Amityville, N.Y., site of a 1974 massacre; 28 days later, they flee in terror, citing oozing green slime, red-eyed pigs and more. Their much-disputed tale inspires the book and movie "The Amityville Horror."
unlabelledView post →Movie: The Amityville Horror (2005) (HBO Max) Every time I watch this movie, it reminds me that Ryan Reynolds is wasted potential. Dude is an underrated actor imo. This franchise is kinda ass though ngl. Mid movie, but pretty good performance from the guy. #filmsky #horrorsky
unlabelledView post →👻 October Movie Challenge – Day 4 👻 Tonight’s film is The Amityville Horror (1979) — the chilling story of the Lutz family, whose dream home turned into a waking nightmare. Would you dare step inside the Amityville house? #OctoberMovieChallenge #AmityvilleHorror #HorrorMovies #HauntedHouse
unlabelledView post →The Amityville Horror remake is celebrating 20 years, and I'm not sure the movie ever got the respect it deserved. Here's why the 2005 take on this 'true story' is worth revisiting. - www.comingsoon.net/movies/featu...
unlabelledView post →Tomorrow’s a big day for THE AMITYVILLE HORROR remake as @jennferatu.bsky.social and I tackle the film for its 20th anniversary.
unlabelledView post →Tomorrow: @jennferatu.bsky.social and @joelipsett.bsky.social kick off a month dedicated to THE AMITYVILLE HORROR (no joke!) with a look at the Lutz family, Jay Anson's novel, and the 1979 original film. Subscribe here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
unlabelledView post →#ThenAndNow NOPE!! The Amityville Horror (1979) is a horror film directed by Stuart Rosenberg.It Was released on 27th, July, 1979. Filming Location: - Real Amityville house 🏠 - 108 Ocean Ave. Amityville, NY. 11701
unlabelledView post →#HorrorAlphabet film 1: The Amityville Horror (1979). Maybe this was scarier back in the day, but disjointed storytelling and threadbare characters just left us bored and uninterested. There are bones of a decent demonic house story here, but this movie doesn’t build with them well.
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