The Amityville Horror (film series)
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The Amityville Horror 1979 film poster
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Language | English |
The Amityville Horror film series are American horror films that center on events in a haunted house in Amityville, New York.
Contents
Films
Producers and distributors
The films have at various times been owned by several different production and distribution companies internationally and in the United States. American International Pictures produced and released the original film, before Orion Pictures bought the rights to the film, as well as II and 3-D. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) now owns films one through 3-D, and released them in a box set in 2005. While 4 was a TV film broadcast on NBC, it has been released multiple times by independent distribution companies in recent years (one of which was Vidmark, who also released Curse; Vidmark is now owned by Lionsgate). It's About Time, A New Generation and Dollhouse have all been released by Republic Pictures.
Release
Box office
Film | Release Date | Budget | Total Gross | Reference |
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The Amityville Horror | July 27, 1979 | $4,700,000 | $86,432,000 |
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Amityville II: The Possession | September 24, 1982 | N/A | $12,534,817 |
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Amityville 3-D: The Demon | November 18, 1983 | N/A | $6,333,135 |
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The Amityville Horror | April 14, 2005 | $19,000,000 | $65,233,369 |
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Amityville: The Awakening | April 15, 2016 | N/A | N/A |
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Reception
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Rotten Tomatoes[8] | Metacritic[9] | IMDb[10] | |
The Amityville Horror | 24% | N/A | 6.2 |
Amityville II: The Possession | 7% | N/A | 5.4 |
Amityville 3-D | 0% | N/A | 3.9 |
Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes | N/A | N/A | 4.2 |
The Amityville Curse | 20% | N/A | 2.8 |
Amityville 1992: It's About Time | 14% | N/A | 4.3 |
Amityville: A New Generation | N/A | N/A | 3.6 |
Amityville Dollhouse | N/A | N/A | 4.0 |
The Amityville Horror (2005) | 23% | 33 | 6.0 |
The Amityville Haunting | N/A | N/A | 2.8 |
The Amityville Asylum | N/A | N/A | 2.6 |
Amityville Death House | N/A | N/A | 3.2 |
The Amityville Playhouse | N/A | N/A | 2.4 |
Amityville: The Awakening | TBA | TBA | TBA |
Average | 15% | 33 | 4.0 |
Parody
The 1984 British film Bloodbath at the House of Death is largely a spoof of the 1979 film.
In The Simpsons' first Halloween special, "Treehouse of Horror", the family experiences paranormal activity in their new home, which was the site of a mass murder and was built on an Indian burial ground.
Scary Movie 2 parodies the scene in which the priest blessing the house is attacked by flies.
Continuity
None of the films are direct sequels to each other, and parts I, II and IV are the only films based on books from the Amityville book series and establish references with each other. Amityville II is a prequel to the original 1979 film, which tells the story of the DeFeo family's mass murder (though they are named the Montelli family in the film).
References
- ↑ Samuel Z Arkoff & Richard Turbo, Flying Through Hollywood By the Seat of My Pants, Birch Lane Press, 1992 p 228
- ↑ Gary A. Smith, The American International Pictures Video Guide, McFarland 2009 p 13
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