Amityville Horror (1979): Horror, starring James Brolin, Margot Kidder.
The Marc Horton plot synopsis: Young couple buys drafty old house that had been the scene of a mass murder. Husband starts acting a little kooky. Priest and nun make visits, suffer convulsions. Couple and their friends make a late-night visit to the library to get to the bottom of things. etc.
The hype: Hyped as a true story but pretty much all of it has been debunked or refuted over the years, except for the fact that the house was the site where some discontented kid shot his parents and siblings. Took in $86 million at the box office.
The reality: Brolin and Kidder aren't going to win any Academy Awards for their acting at the best of time, but Rod Steiger did, for "In the Heat of the Night". Maybe it was the director's fault.
Roger Ebert called it, "dreary and terminally depressing." That sounds more like an Ingmar Bergman film. This is just derivative (mostly of The Exorcist) and dull.
The Political Incorrect Movie Review: If you thought this was scary in 1979, you were probably watching too much Carol Burnett Show.
8 years ago
4 comments:
These kind of super-natural horror films all owe their existence to The Exorcist. This one has the freaked-out parents, the scared kid, the priest and a whole lot of things going bump in the night.
The Exorcist did everything Amityville Horror did, only better — and six years earlier.
When are you going to review Slapshot 3? It is on Bell TV PPV right now. Apparently, Leslie Nielsen, Mark Messier, and the Hanson brothers star.
Is it worth pressing the buttons on my remote?
Being the world's biggest cheapskate, I don't have PPV. I got the Shaw digital box so I could watch the Gretzkispective last August, but I noticed after the free-preview period ended that I pretty much get the same crappy channels as before, unless I pony up more coin. And then I discovered free sports online, making cable TV pretty much redundant.
Let's try that one again:
free sports online
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