The Amityville Horror is a 2005 American supernatural horror film directed by Andrew Douglas and starring Ryan Reynolds, Melissa George, 🤶 and Philip Baker Hall. It also featured the debut of actress Chloe Grace Moretz. Written by Scott Kosar, it is 🤶 based on the novel The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson, which was previously adapted into the 1979 film of the 🤶 same name, while also serving as the ninth film in the Amityville Horror film series, which documents the experiences of 🤶 the Lutz family after they move into a house at 112 Ocean Avenue, Long Island. In 1974, real-life mass murderer 🤶 Ronald DeFeo Jr. killed six members of his family at the same house in Amityville, New York.

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Manohla Dargis of The New York Times said, "Low-key creepy rather than outright scary, the new Amityville marks 🤶 a modest improvement over the original, partly because, from acting to bloody effects, it is better executed, and partly because 🤶 the filmmakers have downgraded the role of the priest, played in all his vein-popping glory by Rod Steiger in the 🤶 first film and by a considerably more subdued Philip Baker Hall here."[4]

Ruthe Stein of the San Francisco Chronicle thought "the 🤶 truly shocking thing about the new version is that it's not bloody awful . . . The decision to use 🤶 minimal computer-generated effects, made for monetary rather than artistic reasons, works to Amityville's advantage. It retains the cheesy look of 🤶 the 1979 original, pure schlock not gussied up to appear to be anything else."[8]