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
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.
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."
