Réalisation:
Andrew DouglasPhotographie:
Peter Lyons CollisterMusique:
Steve JablonskyActeurs·trices:
Ryan Reynolds, Melissa George, Jesse James, Jimmy Bennett, Philip Baker Hall, Rachel Nichols, Chloë Grace Moretz, Marie Joelyn, Rich Komenich (plus)VOD (1)
Résumés(1)
La nuit du 13 novembre 1974, le commissariat du Comté de Suffolk reçut un appel affolé, en provenance de la communauté d'Amityville. Un spectacle d'horreur attendait les policiers dans la résidence du 112 Ocean avenue : six membres d'une même famille avaient été massacrés dans leur lit, à coups de fusil. L'auteur du crime, Ronald DeFeo Jr., passa rapidement aux aveux. Il déclara avoir tué son père, sa mère et ses quatre frères et soeurs après avoir entendu des « voix » émanant des profondeurs de la maison, qui l'auraient envoûté et obligé à commettre un carnage. Un an plus tard, George et Kathy Lutz emménagent avec leurs trois enfants dans la maison d'Amityville, convaincus d'avoir trouvé la résidence de leurs rêves. Mais des événements bizarres et inexplicables - des voix, des visions cauchemardesques, une obscure et maléfique présence - ne tardent pas à troubler leur quotidien... (Mediawan)
(plus)Critiques (7)
Solide film d'horreur maison hantée. La version originale de 1979 est surpassée non seulement par sa réalisation technique, mais aussi par ses idées scénaristiques. Du moins quand il s'agit de la progression initiale de la tension psychologique. En effet, la conclusion semble sortir d'un film moyen de tueur en série sans cerveau.
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Stupidity to the nth degree, where the only likeable character starts gradually turning to the dark side, at which point all empathy for the family comes to an end. Fortunately, with The Amityville Horror the viewer doesn't even really have a chance to get properly warmed up before the finale comes, which also brings liberation. The result is worse than the poor Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The horror roots occasionally shine through even despite the B-movie production.
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I don't understand what they were hoping for with this masterpiece. It’s the same old tired song again: an idyllic family that has everything going for them moves into a mysterious house infested with evil. Everything goes smoothly at first and everyone is satisfied, but after about thirty minutes, things start to get complicated. First, there are just strange noises, then ghosts, some walking dead, a lot of imaginary blood, ritualistic murders, and more and more nonsense. They wrap it all up in a modern audiovisual package (frantically confusing editing) and present it beautifully polished and scented, but it’s still a massively crappy movie, with tons of clichés, absolute predictability, unbelievable characters, and I could go on listing all the bad and the ugly until the sun comes out. Just another contribution to a brutally declining genre.
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I didn't expect anything special, but the result exceeded even my worst expectations. The filmmakers seem to have taken it into their heads that the phrase "Based on a true story" is an amazing alibi, and so they can stuff this haunted house from basement to attic with a hundred plus clichés. A horror? No, it's not. More like a rehash of any ghost story about a cursed shack, The Ring, The Shining, The Exorcist... And it’s so stupidly written and directed without a drop of suspense! We find out what happened in the house right at the beginning, and from then on we just watch as a new family settles in Amityville, as it slowly and uninterestingly reveals what we already know, as some unfortunate person peeks out from every corner (with the necessary rumblings of Jablonsky's non-music), as the father starts to freak out, as a bad performance is replaced by an even worse one... It wasn't scary, but it was definitely terrible.
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A nice little horror flick. In tingles unpleasantly on the nerves, there is no shortage of nastiness and the less than 80 minutes pass like water. But there is a but. I didn't mind the inspiration from other horror films, but the director's attempt to cram a jump-scare and a horrible vision into every other scene seemed increasingly ridiculous as time went on; and that stupid ending? I'd like to cut it out completely as it takes away all the solid atmosphere and those few good ideas. The filmmakers should have ended it in a science-fiction style instead of pushing something about real events down our throats. 60%
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An enjoyable and entertaining haunting with the good Reynolds and an unnecessarily high number of cheap jump scares.
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I don't like remakes, that's just how it is. I think they're mostly unnecessary films. Of course, there are exceptions that I like, but The Amityville Horror is not one of them. Douglas tried to at least scare, for which he deserves credit, because there are some truly terrifying scenes. He added dynamism to the story, but it doesn't quite fit into the 70s.
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