The Amityville Horror

Advantages: Enjoyable Scary
Disadvantages: True Story - How awful

...I am reviewing the movie The Amityville Horror I watched this movie last night on television and I have to admit I was a little creeped out. And apparently it is a true story. So I had the hebbi geebies throughout. The Story A family decide to buy a house in the country, which is a great bargain, only to find out after that the previous family had been murdered in the house. That's the reason for the cheap sale. They decided to keep the house as it's only a house, Houses don't murder people, people murder People. All goes ok in the house until the husband starts acting weird and the daughter is seeing things. What now follows is 28 days of sheer terror for the family. The Cast: Ryan Reynolds plays George, the new man of the house after he married a widow with three children. The children are only getting used to him...

lesleyanne18 01.01.1970 · Read review
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Horror Hotel : "They don't like strangers in Whitewood!"

Advantages: Entertaining, would appeal to enthusiasts of this kind of movie
Disadvantages: Dated, predictable, low budget and it shows!

...RELEASED: 1960, Cert. PG/13 RUNNING TIME: Approx. 75 mins DIRECTOR: John Llewellyn Moxey WRITER: George Baxt MAIN CAST:- Christopher Lee as Prof. Alan Driscoll Venetia Stevenson as Nan Barlow Dennis Lotis as Richard Barlow Patricia Jessel as Elizabeth Selwyn & Mrs Newless Tom Naylor as Tom Maitland Ann Beach as Lottie Norman MaCowan as Rev. Russell Maxine Holden as Sue ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FILM ONLY REVIEW I have a mild fascination for tacky old black & white 1950s/early 1960s horror films, so in my much mentioned great Sainsbury?s sell-off, I was delighted to find a movie called Horror Hotel which I?d never even heard of before, let alone seen. The whole film was shot in black & white and actually released in 1960. The opening scenes of Horror Hotel begin with a witch being...

CelticSoulSister 01.01.1970 · Read review
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Not Much of a Horror

Advantages: Some warm central perfomances
Disadvantages: An overwhelming lack of imagination or real scares

...On 14th November 1975, Ronald DeFeo brutally murdered his entire family, claiming voices in the house drove him to it. A year later newlyweds George and Kathy Lutz move in with her three children. Shortly after George's mind begins to unravel as the house takes hold of him. The random remake roundabout spins into action once more and spits out this bloody lump of recycled 70s schlock horror. Unsurprisingly it comes from Michael Bay's horror remake conveyor belt. This version of the 70s schlocker is unlikely to cause many grumbles from purists - the original was hardly a classic and this version is solid enough. Director Andrew Douglas sticks to the Bay template; so we get photogenic leads in peril with plenty of cheap shocks, nosebleed editing and visual gimmickry. Sadly this makes for a very predictable film that lacks suspense...

afy9mab 01.01.1970 · Read review
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