The Amityville Horror
For God's sake, get out!
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.
- Director
- Stuart Rosenberg
- Signature
- Tension · Craft · Drama
- Worldwide
- $86M
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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.
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Box Office & Release
The Amityville Horror returned 18.4× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $5M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $86M
- Release date
- Jul 27, 1979
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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