Of all the horror franchises, one of the most bafflingly resilient is "The Amityville Horror." And the trailer for the latest film has just debuted and will probably send a chill or two down your spine.
The original film came out in 1979, starred Margot Kidder and James Brolin and was based on the controversial 1977 nonfiction best-seller by Jay Anson, who moved into 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York, and immediately claimed to be terrorized by otherworldly visitations. (These supernatural situations were supposedly connected to a mass murder that happened in the house in December 1975, when Ronalde DeFeo shot and killed six of his family members while they slept.) From that one, admittedly cheesy film (slime? Has slime ever been scary?), there were seven (!) sequels and a fairly straight-faced remake in 2005 that starred Ryan Reynolds and Melissa George. (There were even a couple of sequels after that; this new film is...
The original film came out in 1979, starred Margot Kidder and James Brolin and was based on the controversial 1977 nonfiction best-seller by Jay Anson, who moved into 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York, and immediately claimed to be terrorized by otherworldly visitations. (These supernatural situations were supposedly connected to a mass murder that happened in the house in December 1975, when Ronalde DeFeo shot and killed six of his family members while they slept.) From that one, admittedly cheesy film (slime? Has slime ever been scary?), there were seven (!) sequels and a fairly straight-faced remake in 2005 that starred Ryan Reynolds and Melissa George. (There were even a couple of sequels after that; this new film is...
- 8/22/2014
- by Drew Taylor
- Moviefone
Despite a handful of notable exceptions, horror sequels aren't exactly known for being the greatest movies in the world. Franchises typically overstay their welcome for far too long, resulting in never-ending cash grab sequels that are endlessly inferior to the films that spawned them. For every exceptional sequel like A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors or Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, there are several well past their prime installments like Hellraiser: Revelations and Leprechaun Back 2 Tha Hood, which is why we horror fans tend to look down on sequels, sight unseen. Unfortunately, because of the proven track record of horror sequels, and the bad feelings that are inherently attached to them, there are a handful of truly impressive sequels that don't get a whole lot of respect, simply because they're either attached to franchises that fans had long given up on by the time they came around,...
- 7/23/2013
- by John Squires
- FEARnet
Thanks to that crazy haunted house house that resides in Amityville, N.Y. we've seen ten films based on the house, and now this latest addition to the Amityville collection that will supposedly be the "first time ever that the true prequel to the Amityville horror will be told.”
Just a little refresher course... Amityville is home to the infamous house in which Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murdered six members of his family in 1974. George Lutz and his family moved into the house a year later. They were forced to move out of the house 28 days later due to a series of terrifying hauntings they encountered. The case became the subject of Jay Anson’s 1977 book The Amityville Horror: A True Story.
This latest project comes from producer Tony DeRosa-Grund, and it will be based on the experiences of two reporters who investigated the incidents for New York TV station Wnew,...
Just a little refresher course... Amityville is home to the infamous house in which Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murdered six members of his family in 1974. George Lutz and his family moved into the house a year later. They were forced to move out of the house 28 days later due to a series of terrifying hauntings they encountered. The case became the subject of Jay Anson’s 1977 book The Amityville Horror: A True Story.
This latest project comes from producer Tony DeRosa-Grund, and it will be based on the experiences of two reporters who investigated the incidents for New York TV station Wnew,...
- 8/9/2012
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Some franchises will never die. They just multiply.
The last time audiences got to see an Amityville Horror movie in theaters was the 2005 remake starring Ryan Reynolds and Melissa George. Now two Amityvilles will be arriving in 2012.
Dimension and Miramax will release The Amityville Horror: The Lost Tapes first on January 27, 2012. The two studios announced the project over the weekend at the Cannes Film Festival, HitFix reports. According to the press release, The Lost Tapes is a "found footage" horror movie that follows "an ambitious female television news intern, on the verge of breaking the most famous haunted house case in the world, leading a team of journalists, clergymen, and paranormal researchers into an investigation of the bizarre events that will come to be known as 'The Amityville Horror' ... only to unwittingly open a door to the unreal that she may never be able to close."
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The last time audiences got to see an Amityville Horror movie in theaters was the 2005 remake starring Ryan Reynolds and Melissa George. Now two Amityvilles will be arriving in 2012.
Dimension and Miramax will release The Amityville Horror: The Lost Tapes first on January 27, 2012. The two studios announced the project over the weekend at the Cannes Film Festival, HitFix reports. According to the press release, The Lost Tapes is a "found footage" horror movie that follows "an ambitious female television news intern, on the verge of breaking the most famous haunted house case in the world, leading a team of journalists, clergymen, and paranormal researchers into an investigation of the bizarre events that will come to be known as 'The Amityville Horror' ... only to unwittingly open a door to the unreal that she may never be able to close."
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- 5/16/2011
- by Ryan Gowland
- Reelzchannel.com
Hannibal Classics is moving forward with "Amityville: The Legacy 3D", a new horror feature based on the haunted house franchise.
Unlike the 2005 remake starring Ryan Reynolds, this will Not be a new version of the story in the original Jay Anson 1997 novel "The Amityville Horror" or its famous 1979 film adaptation.
Instead, Steve B. Harris and Andrew Helm are adapting the script based on John G. Jones' 1988 novel 'Amityville: The Evil Escapes', the fourth book in the series. A lot of the elements of the book were adapted for the screen before - in 1989's "Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes" and 1992's "Amityville: It's About Time".
The storyline follows Nancy and Michael Evans, a couple touched by a family tragedy when Nancy's sister Carolyn committed suicide, leaving them to look after her kids. Moving into Carolyn's suburban home to fix it up and then sell it, Nancy begins to sense an evil presence,...
Unlike the 2005 remake starring Ryan Reynolds, this will Not be a new version of the story in the original Jay Anson 1997 novel "The Amityville Horror" or its famous 1979 film adaptation.
Instead, Steve B. Harris and Andrew Helm are adapting the script based on John G. Jones' 1988 novel 'Amityville: The Evil Escapes', the fourth book in the series. A lot of the elements of the book were adapted for the screen before - in 1989's "Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes" and 1992's "Amityville: It's About Time".
The storyline follows Nancy and Michael Evans, a couple touched by a family tragedy when Nancy's sister Carolyn committed suicide, leaving them to look after her kids. Moving into Carolyn's suburban home to fix it up and then sell it, Nancy begins to sense an evil presence,...
- 5/11/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
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