The Amityville Horror
A family’s dream Long Island home becomes a 28-day crucible of visions, possession, and murderous supernatural pressure.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- Moderate
- foreboding
- oppressive
- frantic
- halloween night
- late night horror viewing
What critics said
Critics broadly found the remake competently acted and intermittently effective but overstuffed with familiar haunted-house clichés and conspicuous shocks.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The Long Island house functions as the family's primary source of supernatural danger and psychological pressure.
The film presents the Lutz family's haunting as based on the purportedly true events associated with the house.
George's increasingly strange behavior and the family's destabilization are tied to the house's murderous presence.
Demonic faces, bloody imagery, and visions of the dead make the unseen threat overt rather than primarily implied.
Films like The Amityville Horror, and why
The Shining
shared haunted house premise, supernatural terror, family vulnerability, and escalating psychological dread
The Haunting
shared ghost story structure, atmospheric domestic horror, and unseen supernatural menace
The Conjuring
shared haunted-house setting, demonic presence, family endangerment, and graphic supernatural imagery
The Others
shared slow-building paranormal threat, family conflict, and visions of the dead
Movie Details
- Director
- Andrew Douglas
- Release Date
- 2005-04-14
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Rating
- 6.1 / 10 (2429)
Cast
- Ryan Reynolds
- Melissa George
- Jesse James
- Jimmy Bennett
- Chloë Grace Moretz
- Rachel Nichols
- Philip Baker Hall
- Isabel Conner
- Brendan Donaldson
- Annabel Armour
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- fuboTV, MGM+ Amazon Channel, Philo, AMC Plus Apple TV channel, AMC+ Amazon Channel, AMC+, AMC, MGM Plus
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home, Plex
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is The Amityville Horror about?
- A family’s dream Long Island home becomes a 28-day crucible of visions, possession, and murderous supernatural pressure.
- What is The Amityville Horror like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of The Amityville Horror as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is The Amityville Horror violent?
- Somewhat. Ember rates the violence in The Amityville Horror as moderate.
- What did critics think of The Amityville Horror?
- Critics broadly found the remake competently acted and intermittently effective but overstuffed with familiar haunted-house clichés and conspicuous shocks.
- Which films are like The Amityville Horror?
- Films with a similar feel include The Shining, The Haunting, The Conjuring, and The Others.
- How long is The Amityville Horror?
- The Amityville Horror runs 90 minutes.
- Where can I watch The Amityville Horror?
- In United States, The Amityville Horror streams on fuboTV, MGM+ Amazon Channel, Philo, AMC Plus Apple TV channel, AMC+ Amazon Channel, AMC+, AMC, MGM Plus.
