The read
Audiences rate it 34 points higher than critics do. The highest scoring of the 10 titles in its series.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes33%
Metacritic28/100
Audiences rate it 34 points higher than critics do.
1,076 audience votes
Key crew
- Sandor SternScreenplay
- Stuart RosenbergDirector
- Lalo SchifrinOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- James BrolinGeorge Lutz
- Margot KidderKathy Lutz
- Rod SteigerFather Delaney
- Don StroudFather Richard Bolen
- Murray HamiltonFather Ryan
- John LarchFather Nuncio
- Natasha RyanAmy
- K.C. MartelGreg
- Meeno PeluceMatt
- Michael SacksJeff
- Irene DaileyAunt Helena
- Helen ShaverCarolyn
Stills
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Themes
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