The Amityville Horror
Promotional Poster for The Amityville Horror
Directed by	Andrew Douglas
Produced by	Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Bradley Fuller
Written by	Scott Kosar, Sandor Stern (screenplay) Based on the novel by Jay Anson
Starring	Ryan Reynolds Melissa George and Philip Baker Hall
Music by	Steve Jablonsky
Cinematography	Peter Lyons Collister
Editing by	Roger Barton, Christian Wagner
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (USA) 20th Century Fox (France, UK, Germany, Australia) Dimension Films (Italy, Spain, Argentina, Mexico)
Release date(s)	April 15, 2005
Running time	90 min.
Language	English
Budget	$18,000,000 (estimated)
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The Amityville Horror is a 2005 horror film directed by Andrew Douglas for United Artists and Dimension Films. It is a remake of the original 1979 film version of The Amityville Horror, which was based on Jay Anson's 1977 novel of the same name. The film is ostensibly inspired by a real life murder case from November 1974 in Long Island, New York, in which Ronald DeFeo, Jr. shot dead six members of his family. Image File history File links Promotional poster for The Amityville Horror, deemed fair use. ... Michael Benjamin Bay (born February 17, 1965) is an American film director and producer. ... Scott Kosar is a screenwriter whose first script was for the 2003 remake of the classic horror film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. ... Born in the northern Canadian town of Timmins, Ontario; raised in the small town of Prescott, Ontario, on the St. ... Jay Anson (4 November 1921-12 March 1980) was an American author whose first (and most famous) work was The Amityville Horror. ... Ryan Rodney Reynolds (born October 23, 1976) is a Canadian actor. ... Melissa Suzanne George (born August 6, 1976 in Perth, Western Australia) is an Australian actress and athlete who has worked in Australia and United States in film and television. ... Philip Baker Hall (born September 10, 1931) is an American screen actor. ... Steve Jablonsky is a music composer for film and television. ... Roger Barton is a film editor who began his career by editing television features. ... For alternate meanings of MGM, see MGM (disambiguation). ... Fox Plaza, the company headquarters. ... Dimension Films is a motion picture unit currently a part of The Weinstein Company. ... April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (106th in leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This is a list of film-related events in 2005. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... The current United Artists logo (a variant was used during the 1980s). ... Dimension Films is a motion picture unit currently a part of The Weinstein Company. ... The Amityville Horror was a 1979 film based on the book of the same name by Jay Anson. ... Jay Anson (4 November 1921-12 March 1980) was an American author whose first (and most famous) work was The Amityville Horror. ... Map showing Long Island; to the north is Connecticut and to the west are New York City and New Jersey. ... NY redirects here. ... Ronald Joseph DeFeo Junior (born September 26, 1951) is an American murderer. ...

Tagline

• Katch 'em, kill 'em.

Plot summary

George and Kathy Lutz (played by Ryan Reynolds and Melissa George), along with their three children, move into what they believe will be their dream home on Long Island, New York. The house had previously belonged to the DeFeo family, where Ronald DeFeo, Jr. had murdered his parents and siblings with a rifle a year earlier. DeFeo had claimed that he heard voices urging him to commit the crime. Ryan Rodney Reynolds (born October 23, 1976) is a Canadian actor. ... Melissa Suzanne George (born August 6, 1976 in Perth, Western Australia) is an Australian actress and athlete who has worked in Australia and United States in film and television. ... This article is about Long Island in New York State. ... Ronald Joseph DeFeo Junior (born September 26, 1951) is an American murderer. ...

The Lutz family soon start hearing ghostly voices and witnessing apparitions, including the ghost of Jodie DeFeo. George is the most affected, and he eventually becomes a danger to those around him. The local priest is called in to bless the house and he fails, warning Kathy to leave the house before it is too late. At the climax of the film, George Lutz tries to kill the other members of his family but is unsuccessful, and they all flee the house.

Box office

The film grossed a total of $64.5 million in the United States, making it a box office success in view of the production budget of $18.5 million and the neutral critical responses to the film. The film grossed $109.5 million worldwide. The site Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 23 percent and an average rating of 4.2/10, stating that The Amityville Horror is a "so-so remake of a so-so original." [1] The term box office can refer to either: A place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to a venue The amount of business a particular production, such as a movie or theatre show, does. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Additional information

• "Jodie DeFeo", who appears as a prominent character in the film, is a fictional character and was not one of the victims of the shootings by Ronald DeFeo, Jr. in November 1974.
• The real life George Lutz denounced the 2005 version of the film as "drivel" and was suing the makers of the film at the time of his death in May 2006.[2]
• William Weber, the defense lawyer for Ronald DeFeo at his trial in 1975, has since claimed that the story that inspired the original book was a hoax concocted between himself and the Lutz family (see The Amityville Horror for more details).
• This was the last film marketed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer before its 2005 merger.
• The house used as the Lutz home in the film was in Silver Lake, Wisconsin while other location work was shot in Antioch, Illinois.

Ronald Joseph DeFeo Junior (born September 26, 1951) is an American murderer. ... The Amityville Horror was a best-selling 1977 novel by Jay Anson, and a 1979 film , about a family that moves into a house in the New York village of Amityville, on the south shore of Long Island where a murder was committed, and finds that the house exerts a... The Amityville Horror is a best-selling book by the author Jay Anson which was published in September 1977. ... For alternate meanings of MGM, see MGM (disambiguation). ... Silver Lake is a village in Salem Township,Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States. ... Antioch is a suburban village in Lake County, Illinois, USA. The population was 8,788 at the 2000 census. ...

Main cast

• Ryan Reynolds — George Lutz
• Melissa George — Kathy Lutz
• Jesse James — Billy Lutz
• Jimmy Bennett — Michael Lutz
• Chloe Moretz — Chelsea Lutz (as Chloë Grace Moretz)
• Rachel Nichols — Lisa
• Philip Baker Hall — Father Callaway

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See also

• 2005 in film
• The Amityville Horror

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External links

• Official site
• The Amityville Horror at the Internet Movie Database
• How to Find 112 Ocean Avenue
• The Amityville Horror: Is 'The Amityville Horror' based on a true story? (Snopes.com)

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