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In 2019, Forbes published an inflation-adjusted list ranking horror film grosses based upon contemporary ticket prices, in which The Amityville Horror ranked as the eighth-highest grossing horror film of all time, with an adjusted gross of $310.3 million at the time of the article's publication. [9]
The Amityville Horror is a book by American author Jay Anson, published in September 1977.It is also the basis of a series of films released from 1979 onward. The book is based on the claims of paranormal experiences by the Lutz family, [1] but has led to controversy and lawsuits over its truthfulness.
The Amityville Horror opened on 3,323 screens in the United States on April 15, 2005 [5] and earned $23,507,007 on its opening weekend, ranking first in the domestic box office. It eventually grossed $65,233,369 domestically and $42,813,762 in foreign markets for a total worldwide box office of $108,047,131.
George said he was waking at 3:15 a.m. each day — the same time DeFeo started his killing spree – while Kathy claimed to have levitated above her bed, according to a best-selling book based on ...
Movie #3 That Made the Amityville Horror: The Amityville Horror (1979) A set photo of actors Margot Kidder and James Brolin as Kathy and George Lutz in 1979’s The Amityville Horror Michael Ochs ...
The first film to be inspired by the story of the Amityville haunting, The Amityville Horror (1979) chronicles the events of Jay Anson's novel, in which the Lutz family finds their new home in Amityville, New York, to be haunted; the house had been the site of a mass murder by Ronald DeFeo Jr. in 1974.
The screenplay by Tommy Lee Wallace is based on the novel Murder in Amityville by the parapsychologist Hans Holzer. It is the second film in the Amityville Horror film series and a loose prequel to The Amityville Horror (1979), set at 112 Ocean Avenue and featuring the fictional Montelli family, loosely based on the DeFeo family. It follows the ...
“The Amityville Horror” house may still be “haunted” 50 years after the real-life massacre that inspired the book and movies, neighbors and a paranormal expert close to the case claim.