1.5/4  The Amityville Horror
The film has the potential to be very creepy, and they get most things right, except for the plot. The music, the effects, the look, are all unnerving but the story and the characters are so uninteresting that before the film is halfway t... (read full)

  What's that coming from the walls?
I am including this film on my top horror list for several reasons. I have seen lots of horror movies and few give me nightmares. I had a nightmare about blood coming out of the walls and the deep scary voice saying "Get Out". Okay I was a... (read full)

2.5/4  The Amityville Horror Quick Review
While not a great horror film, this is still one of those iconic horror movies everyone should see once. This house ranks up there with the Bates Motel as being the most creepy abode, even if the story doesn't quite hold up.

3/5 Amityville Hunk
  by Rob
The camera totally loves Ryan Reynolds from beginning to end, it follows him around one way or another, whether up close facial shots, eye shots, torso shots, and especially shirtless shots. It doesnt matter how stressed out he is, or becomes, the camera wants hunk in this spooky shadow of a well worn story of a family taken residence in a possessed and haunted house. From the reading of other reviewers the first movie still has bad karma. Ha, ha. Well, I liked the first movie not because of its execution (sorry) in style, but by some really memorable scenes that just creeped up on you that this movie doesnt have. Like the ill begotten nun who came to visit, or the psychic woman who immediately felt an outside presence of evil from within. These are the moments good movies make because they are lasting impressions of horror in any true good horror movie. Even the trivial encounter with a dragon statue and loss of money made the first one memorable which, by the way, this movie doesnt have.
What it does have is a well stressed family, and Ryan losing his grip with reality. The visuals and incorporated spooks are the results of more formulated horror movies of recent years. So in the midst of Hellraiser, Saw, and the like, this movie should please. If not, than munch your popcorn to Ryan's wonderful bod and puppy dog lost eyes in this haunted visual nightmare.


3/5 The Amityville Horror(Stop Remaking Movies!!)
  by Jose Lopez (Miami,Florida USA)
The movie is a remake of the Original Which I prefer, I always prefer the Original, Remakes always are bad, this movie is not horrible, it is scary, but Great it is not, And Ryan Reynolds? Come on? Is it a Horror Movie or Comedy?

2/5 21st century 'reimagining' of controversial ghost story
  by Libretio

THE AMITYVILLE HORROR

(USA - 2005)

Aspect ratio: 2.39:1 (Super 35)
Theatrical soundtracks: Dolby Digital / DTS / SDDS

A young couple (Ryan Reynolds and Melissa George) are driven from their dream home by ghostly manifestations which compel Reynolds to the brink of murder.

Less an examination of supernatural horror than a study of one man's descent into mental breakdown, prompted by unspecified forces within a house built on the foundations of murder and mayhem. Reynolds is quite affecting as the tormented protagonist in this beefed-up 'reimagining' of Jay Anson's bestselling book, though the slow accumulation of details doesn't build to a satisfying whole. Miles better than the 1979 version, however. Oh, and Reynolds gets this reviewer's vote as Hunk of the Year - his shirtless scenes are a highlight of the entire picture. Drool, slobber!!...


4/5 Is it good? Eh...Is it scary? Indeed it is...
  by Michael Couch (Lexington, Ky)
I saw this movie in the theater and it was pretty scary. True, the theater experience adds a lot to the horror with the surround sound and what not but it's still scary in dvd form. It gave me nightmares either way 2 for 2. Ever wake up afrighted with the words "catch 'em kill 'em" running through your head? Then you turn around and see a severed head next to you. Okay, I made that last part up but The sleep was less than easy after my viewing. It reminds me of a movie version of a haunted house(no pun intended) walk a ways, bam!, skeleton. Turn the corner, big retard guy with a machete comin' atcha. It was a non stop frightfest. Not a movie for the faint of heart. This movie is guaranteed to scare.*



*Not an actual guarantee

3/5 The Amityville Horror 2005
  by Sun Federal (Erie, MI)
There are 8 Deleted Scenes in The Amityville Horror 2005 that are not in the movie. I think its stubid cutting out the 8 deleted scenes. Someday, later in the Future, I hope they will put in the 8 deleted scenes in the movie, so the movie will be uncut. I would think the movie would have been alot better with the 8 deleted scenes in the movie. the movie is 100 minutes long, but was droped down to 89 minutes long. Jamey P.S. I do think Rachel Nichols is cute. I wished I had her as a girl Friend.