'Amityville Horror': Some boo-scares, but mostly ordinary

The new "The Amityville Horror" is a boo-scare spectacular. It's got more than enough instant ghoulific visions, more quick-moving shadows and more ear-splitting music swells than any decent scary movie needs. It's also got a ghost of a little girl with stringy dark hair who looks like she just climbed out of a well. Which is the point. There's nothing this "Amityville" won't beg, borrow, steal from or fabricate in trying to make your neck hairs sit up and shiver. Read the full review

TO SUM UP
A remake of the 1979 horror classic in which family is terrorized by demonic forces after moving into a home that was the site of a grisly mass murder.

FILM FACTS ...
Dimension Films
'The Amityville Horror'

Director: Andrew Douglas
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Melissa George, Jesse James, Jimmy Bennett, Chloe Moretz, Philip Baker Hall
Run time: 89 minutes
Release date: April 15, 2005
Rating: R for violence, disturbing images, language, brief sexuality and drug use.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: C
"The filmmakers had a crystal vision about how to maneuver around any plot problem — cue the hideous creature pop-out scare."


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