The Amityville Horror

When George (Ryan Reynolds) and Kathy Lutz (Melissa George) find a palatial Dutch Colonial house for sale--for dirt cheap--the first thing he asks is "What's the catch?" Oh boy, is there ever one. The Lutzes, including Kathy's three small children, are about to live in the house where the entire DeFeo family had been murdered about a year earlier. The next 28 days will test their sense of family, sanity and their lives. The scariest part? It's based on a true story.

In 1974, Ronnie DeFeo shot and killed his entire family in the house that is now infamous thanks to the book and original movie. His defense was that evil spirits in the house told him to kill everyone. When the Lutzes move into the house, they began experiencing things that make them believe that maybe Ronnie wasn't lying after all.

This movie is one of the scariest I have seen in a LONG time, which is saying a lot, since I've seen so many and have lost some of the element of surprise. The fact that some, possibly all, of the content of The Amityville Horror is true makes it that much scarier. Seeing a normal, otherwise happy family turn chaotic due to something out of their control--something evil-- is an element not foreign to horror films, but this movie really takes it to another level. I felt like a horror movie virgin as I leapt in my seat and gasped at every twist and turn. What, you ask, can get a "been there, seen that, yawn" horror movie buff all scared? You'll have to go see for yourself.