5/19/2023 0 Comments The amityville horror by jay anson![]() The film starts off by showing us horrible things that happened in that house just months earlier namely a homicide case involving a father killing his entire family in the middle of the night at random with a shotgun. George (James Brolin) and Cathy Lutz (Margot Kidder) are a young couple who have just purchased a new home that rests by a lake of sorts. Regardless of what you believe and how honest the story being told may actually be, Anson had conjured up an accumulated sense of dread that this 1979 adaptation helmed by Stuart Rosenberg never quite captures. I haven't read it in full but I have read excerpts from the book before, and I can already tell you that it's a more terrifying supposed "real-life" story than this poor, messy film adaptation makes it out to be. ![]() At the time of its release and afterwards, it was subject to speculation whilst Anson faced various lawsuits. ![]() ![]() Jay Anson's "The Amityville Horror" is considered to be one of the most important, controversial, and polarizing pieces of horror literature ever committed to a few hundred pages. ![]()
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